Modern Humans
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| Originally published | September 2009 |
| Authors | Rebecca Stefoff |
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About Modern Humans
"Describes the rise of modern humans, Homo sapiens, including the theories about our origins and how we spread throughout the world, with information based on the latest fossil and DNA studies"--Provided by publisher.
Nobel Prize goes to Neanderthal DNA research
... His work focused on hominins - the group of Modern Humans that includes us, but also our extinct relatives...
Neanderthal extinction not caused by brutal wipe out
...New fossils are challenging ideas that Modern Humans wiped out Neanderthals soon after arriving from Africa...
Richard Leakey: Kenyan conservationist dies aged 77
... In his 20s, Leakey made his own important finds, and in two ground-breaking books (Origins and People of the Lake), he explained the emergence of Homo erectus, an ancestor of Modern Humans...
'Ghost', the human ancestors in Western Africa discovered
... hundreds of thousands of years there were several different groups of people, including Modern Humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans...
Homo erectus: Ancient humans survived longer than we thought
...A reconstruction of Homo erectus - the first known human to walk fully upright An ancient relative of Modern Humans survived into comparatively recent times in South East Asia, a new study has revealed...
'All bets now off' on which ape was humanity's ancestor
... Anamensis is the latest in a string of recent discoveries that shows that there was no smooth line of ascent to Modern Humans...
Nobel Prize goes to Neanderthal DNA research
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has gone to Sweden's Svante Paabo for his work on Human Evolution .
The Prize committee said he achieved The seemingly impossible task of cracking The genetic code of one of our extinct Relatives - Neanderthals.
He also performed The " sensational" feat of discovering The previously unknown relative - Denisova.
His work helped explore Our Own evolutionary history and how humans spread around The Planet .
The Swedish geneticist's work gets to The Heart of some of The Most fundamental questions - where do we come from and what allowed us, to succeed while our Relatives went extinct.
In The 1990s, research on working out The human genetic code was taking place at pace. But that relied on fresh samples of pristine DNA.
Prof Paabo's interest was in The old and degraded genetic material from our ancestors. He was, for The First Time , able to sequence DNA from a 40,000-year-old piece of bone.
Those results showed that Neanderthals - who mostly lived in Europe and Western Asia - were distinct from both modern day humans and chimpanzees.
His work focused on hominins - The Group of Modern Humans that includes us, but also our extinct Relatives .
" By revealing genetic differences that distinguish all living humans from extinct hominins, his discoveries provide The basis for exploring what makes us uniquely human" The Nobel committee said.
Further comparisons between Neanderthal DNA and humans from around The World showed their DNA was a closer matcher to humans coming from Europe or Asia .
This tells us that had sex and children with Neanderthals after migrating out of Africa around 70,000 years ago.
And you can still see The Legacy of that today. Between 1-4% of modern human DNA comes from our Neanderthals Relatives and this even affects Our Body 's ability to respond to infection.
He wins The 10m Swedish kronor (£800,000) prize.
Previous winnersSource of news: bbc.com
