- How Europeans white skin changed over time: According to a . . .
Researchers have discovered that the bulk of the time that humans have lived in Europe, the people have had dark skin, and the genes indicative of light skin only occur over the past 8,000 years, based on 83 human samples from Holocene Europe that were investigated under the 1000 Genomes Project
- Artifacts suggest humans arrived in Australia earlier than . . .
The new date makes a difference, co-author and UW associate professor of anthropology Ben Marwick said Against the backdrop of theories that place humans in Australia anywhere between 47,000 and 60,000 years ago, the concept of earlier settlement calls into question the argument that humans caused the extinction of unique megafauna such as giant kangaroos, wombats and tortoises more than
- Human origins in a southern African palaeo-wetland and first . . .
Anatomically modern humans originated in Africa around 200 thousand years ago (ka) 1,2,3,4 Although some of the oldest skeletal remains suggest an eastern African origin 2, southern Africa is home
- Scientists weighed all life on Earth. It’s mind-boggling. | Vox
All life on Earth, in one staggering chart Scientists estimated the mass of all life It’s mind boggling
- Walking Upright - The Smithsonians Human Origins Program
1 95 million years ago The size and broad shape of the hip bones of Homo erectus are similar to a modern human’s, showing that this early human species had given up climbing for walking Fully bipedal By 1 9 million years ago
- Species, extinct before we know them? - ScienceDirect
The pace of discovery and description of new species slowed after 1835: taxonomists described another 46 by the century’s end, then only 16 in the next 60 years (Figure 2) The fate of the 192 species known before 1960 is that one, the Alagoas curassow (Mitu mitu), is extinct in the wild — it was last seen in the mid-1980s Five more are
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