human evolution

Intake of animal protein fueled physical changes (larger rib cage and wider pelvis) in Ice Age Neanderthals.

Nuclear DNA sequencing has provided the key.

These two great herbivores made up 80% of the diet of those extinct humans.

The Atapuerca fossils reveal a new model in the evolution of the human body: bigger but with less brain.

Examination of the fossil reveals that it is around 1.9 million years old.

Until now, the disappearance of Homo neanderthalensis in Europe had been dated around 40,000 years ago. However, a new study carried out by the UDI of Prehistory, Archeology and Ancient History of the University of La Laguna (Spain) dates its disappearance in the Iberian Peninsula before that date: around 45,000 years. The research has been published in the Journal of Human Evolution.

A recent study by the University of Colorado (USA) and the University of Leiden (Netherlands) has found that the widely spread theory that Neanderthals were quite clumsy and had limited intelligence, compared to anatomically modern humans, has no basis.

The faces of our ancestors, especially that of the australopithecines, could have evolved to minimize the severity of the injuries they suffered to the face.