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document.write('<p class="rss-title"><a class="rss-title" href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/news/fossils_ruins/early_humans/" target="_blank">Early Humans News -- ScienceDaily</a><br /><span class="rss-item">Read about early humans in this anthropology news section. Early human development, early human migration, culture and more. Photos.</span></p>');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/01/220124151115.htm" target="_blank">New study calls into question the importance of meat eating in shaping our evolution</a><br />');
document.write('A new study calls into question the primacy of meat eating in early human evolution.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/01/220119135037.htm" target="_blank">Uncovering the underlying patterns in contemporary evolution</a><br />');
document.write('Wild populations must continuously adapt to environmental changes or risk extinction. For more than fifty years, scientists have described instances of \'rapid evolution\' in specific populations as their traits (phenotypes) change in response to varying stressors. For example, Spanish clover has developed a tolerance for copper from the mine tailings in which it grows, and the horn size of Alberta bighorn sheep has decreased due to trophy hunting. But until now it hasn\'t been possible to reach any overarching conclusions about how different factors (such as harvesting, climate change, invasive species, or pollution) shape this rapid (now called \'contemporary\') evolution.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/01/220112121507.htm" target="_blank">Earliest human remains in eastern Africa dated to more than 230,000 years ago</a><br />');
document.write('The age of the oldest fossils in eastern Africa widely recognized as representing our species, Homo sapiens, has long been uncertain. Now, dating of a massive volcanic eruption in Ethiopia reveals they are much older than previously thought.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/12/211228220818.htm" target="_blank">Nits on ancient mummies shed light on South American ancestry</a><br />');
document.write('For the first time, scientists have recovered ancient human DNA from the sticky glue head lice use to attach their eggs to their host\'s hair. The new technique was trialled on mummified remains and the DNA has revealed clues about how the people died and the movements of populations thousands of years ago.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/12/211227154312.htm" target="_blank">How DNA is preserved in archaeological sediments for thousands of years</a><br />');
document.write('The analysis of ancient DNA preserved in sediments is an emerging technology allowing for the detection of the past presence of humans and other animals at archaeological sites. Yet, little is known about how DNA is preserved in sediment for long periods of time. Scientists have now shed light on the matter by isolating DNA from solid blocks of undisturbed sediment that are embedded in plastic resin. The study reveals that ancient human and animal DNA is concentrated in small \'hot spots\', particularly in microscopic particles of bone or feces. Micro-sampling of such particles can recover substantial amounts of DNA from ancient humans, such as Neanderthals, and other species and link them to archaeological and ecological records at a microscopic scale.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/12/211222153107.htm" target="_blank">Geneticists’ new research on ancient Britain contains insights on language, ancestry, kinship, milk</a><br />');
document.write('New research revealing a major migration to the island of Great Britain offers fresh insights into the languages spoken at the time, the ancestry of present-day England and Wales, and even ancient habits of dairy consumption.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/12/211221102708.htm" target="_blank">From giant elephants to nimble gazelles: Early humans hunted the largest available animals to extinction for 1.5 million years, study finds</a><br />');
document.write('A new study tracks the development of early humans\' hunting practices over the last 1.5 million years -- as reflected in the animals they hunted and consumed. The researchers claim that at any given time early humans preferred to hunt the largest animals available in their surroundings, which provided the greatest quantities of food in return for a unit of effort.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/12/211213121841.htm" target="_blank">Tooth cavities provide unique ecological insight into living primates and fossil humans</a><br />');
document.write('Tooth decay is a common and unfortunate problem for many of us, but two University of Otago studies show it is also an issue for other primates, as well as our fossil relatives and ancestors.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/12/211209201651.htm" target="_blank">Dinosaur faces and feet may have popped with color</a><br />');
document.write('A study finds that there is a 50 percent chance that the common ancestor of birds and dinosaurs had bright colors on its skin, beaks and scales, but 0 percent chance that it had bright colors on its feathers or claws.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/12/211201111934.htm" target="_blank">Footprints from site a at Laetoli, Tanzania, are from early humans, not bears</a><br />');
document.write('The oldest unequivocal evidence of upright walking in the human lineage are footprints discovered at Laetoli, Tanzania in 1978, by paleontologist Mary Leakey and her team. The bipedal trackways date to 3.7 million years ago. Another set of mysterious footprints was partially excavated at nearby Site A in 1976 but dismissed as possibly being made by a bear. A recent re-excavation of the Site A footprints at Laetoli and a detailed comparative analysis reveal that the footprints were made by an early human -- a bipedal hominin.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/11/211129122713.htm" target="_blank">Farmers spread Transeurasian languages</a><br />');
document.write('New research provides interdisciplinary support for the \'Farming Hypothesis\' of language dispersal, tracing Transeurasian languages back to the first farmers moving across Northeast Asia beginning in the Early Neolithic -- roughly between 8-10 thousand years ago.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/11/211123131404.htm" target="_blank">Prehistoric mums may have cared for kids better than we thought</a><br />');
document.write('A new study has revealed the death rate of babies in ancient societies is not a reflection of poor healthcare, disease and other factors, but instead is an indication of the number of babies born in that era.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/11/211123130821.htm" target="_blank">Ancient human relative, Australopithecus sediba, \'walked like a human, but climbed like an ape\'</a><br />');
document.write('The recovery of new lumbar vertebrae from the lower back of a single individual of the human relative, Australopithecus sediba, and portions of other vertebrae of the same female from Malapa, South Africa, together with previously discovered vertebrae, form one of the most complete lower backs ever discovered in the early hominid record and give insight into how this ancient human relative walked and climbed.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/11/211110131625.htm" target="_blank">Spread of Transeurasian languages was due to agriculture</a><br />');
document.write('By triangulating data from linguistics, archaeology and genetics, a new study by an international team of researchers proposes a \'Farming Hypothesis\' for the spread of Transeurasian languages, tracing the origins of Japonic, Koreanic, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic to the movements of Neolithic millet farmers from the region of the West Liao River.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/11/211104100643.htm" target="_blank">Partial skull of a child of Homo naledi: Insight into stages of life of remarkable species</a><br />');
document.write('Researchers have revealed the first partial skull of a Homo naledi child that was found in the remote depths of the Rising Star cave in Johannesburg, South Africa. The team announced the discovery of parts of the skull and teeth of the child that died almost 250,000 years ago.');
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