A face for Lucy’s ancestor Australopithecus anamensis is the earliest-known species of Australopithecus and widely accepted as the progenitor of ‘Lucy’s’ species, Australopithecus afarensis. Until now, A. anamensis was known mainly from jaws and teeth. Yohannes Haile-Selassie of the […]
Anaemic star carries the mark of its ancient ancestor A newly discovered ancient star containing a record-low amount of iron carries evidence of a class of even older stars, long hypothesised but assumed to have […]
Artificial Intelligence Has Found an Unknown ‘Ghost’ Ancestor in The Human Genome Nobody knows who she was, just that she was different: a teenage girl from over 50,000 years ago of such strange uniqueness she […]
Artificial intelligence applied to the genome identifies an unknown human ancestor By combining deep learning algorithms and statistical methods, investigators from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE), the Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico (CNAG-CRG) of […]
Oldest-known ancestor of modern primates may have come from North America, not Asia About 56 million years ago, on an Earth so warm that palm trees graced the Arctic Circle, a mouse-sized primate known as Teilhardina first […]
A Mysterious Human Ancestor Used These 700,000-Year-Old Tools From The Philippines A new discovery of stone tools and other evidence has revealed that hominins – our pre-human relatives – were in South East Asia hundreds […]