One of the earliest human ancestors – that lived 400 million years ago – was a ‘fish’ with no jaw that used spines on its head to shift position in the water, study claims. Researchers from the University of Bristol used computer simulations to create ‘avatars’ of our ancient relatives to explore how they moved … Read more
Hot springs may have been used by early human ancestors to boil food around 1.8 million years ago — long before they mastered cooking with fire, a study suggested. The Olduvai Gorge in northern Tanzania has produced some of the oldest remains of early human ancestors known to date, along with some of the tools they used. … Read more
Charles Darwin (1809-1882) Charles Robert Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, the fifth of six children of wealthy and well-connected parents. One of his grandfathers was Erasmus Darwin, a doctor whose book ‘Zoonomia’ had set out a radical and highly controversial idea, that one species could ‘transmute’ into another. Transmutation is what evolution was then … Read more
Hand axe made from a hippopotamus femur discovered in Ethiopia was used by early ancestors 1.4 MILLION years ago Archaeologists unearthed an ancient hand axe used by Homo erectus The tool dates back 1.4 million years and was found in Ethiopia in Africa This hand axe is unique, as it was constructed from a hippopotamus femur … Read more
Archeologists identify 14,000-year-old Siberian ancestor of early inhabitants of North America, the oldest known genetic link between the two regions ever documented Archeologists in Lake Baikal, Siberia analyzed remains dating back 14,000 years They found a number of genetic links between to Native American populations The researchers say the samples are oldest common ancestor yet … Read more