Curly Hair Protected The Brain Of Early Humans And Helped It Grow
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Curly hair does more than simply look good. It may explain how early humans stayed cool while conserving water, according to researchers who studied the role human hair textures play in regulating body temperature. The findings can shed light on an evolutionary adaptation that enabled the human brain to grow […]
Humans Carry DNA From An Ancient, Unidentified Ancestor – Scientists Say
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An analysis of ancient genomes suggests that different branches of the human family tree interbred multiple times and that some humans carry DNA from an archaic, unknown ancestor. Who was this mysterious ancient individual? Roughly 50,000 years ago, a group of humans migrated out of Africa and interbred with Neanderthals […]
Suprising Evolution Discovery – Human Temporal Lobes Are Not Very Large In Comparison With Other Primates
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – It had been thought to date that the species Homo sapiens has disproportionately large temporal lobes compared to other anthropoid primates, the group including anthropomorphic monkeys and apes. A new study, one of whose authors is Emiliano Bruner, a paleoneurologist at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana […]
What Does The Brain Of The Homo Erectus Fossil With The Lowest Cranial Capacity Tell About Evolution?
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The paleoneurologist Emiliano Bruner and the archaeologist Sileshi Semaw, both from the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), have published a paper in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology about the 1.5 million-year-old cranium DAN5/P1, found at the Gona site in Ethiopia, whose cranial morphology indicates that it belongs […]
Human And Neanderthal Brains Have A Surprising ‘Youthful’ Quality In Common – New Study
AncientPages.com – Many believe our particularly large brain is what makes us human – but is there more to it? The brain’s shape, as well as the shapes of its component parts (lobes) may also be important. Neanderthal vs human skull. Credit: Adobe Stock – Bruder Results of a study we published in Nature Ecology & […]
Surprising Evolution Discovery – Extinct Subterranean Human Species With Tiny Brains Used Fire
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – An archaeologist says he has made an astonishing discovery and can offer evidence extinct human species used fire for both light and cooking meat, despite having a much smaller brain than ours. If he is correct in his ᴀssumptions, then the archeological findings open a new surprising chapter in the […]
Scientists Investigate – Did The Human Brain Shrink 3,000 Years Ago?
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Did the 12th century B.C.E.—a time when humans were forging great empires and developing new forms of written text—coincide with an evolutionary reduction in brain size? Think again, says a UNLV-led team of researchers who refute a hypothesis that’s growing increasingly popular among the science community. Credit: Pixabay – Public […]