1.4 million-year-old footprints reveal an ancient group of human-sized hominins

Research findings are available online in the journal PNAS. The original story " 1.4 million-year-old footprints reveal an ...

Toothy human ancestor may have traveled in all-male packs

The imprints’ distribution and dating also suggest the archaic humans sometimes traveled in groups. In one instance at GaJi10 ...
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Fossil Footprints Reveal That an Ancient Human Relative Was Larger Than Previously Thought and Traveled in Groups 1.4 Million Years Ago

Overview of the excavated track surface with a mix of deeper hippopotamus and antelope footprints and shallower hominin tracks visible. Kay Behrensmeyer, Smithsonian. Ancient footprints preserved ...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)

Insights into hominin body size, locomotion, and behavior from Early Pleistocene trackways in northern Kenya

The Early Pleistocene fossils of the Koobi Fora Formation, northern Kenya, record two well-documented hominin genera, Homo ...

A Single Human Neuron Is Far More Powerful Than Scientists Thought

A new study suggests that the human brain’s extraordinary abilities may depend not only on its vast number of neurons, but ...

Tunas became large, warm-blooded predators long after the dinosaur extinction

Tunas did not become large, fast and warm-blooded simply because an asteroid cleared the oceans of competing predators. Their defining traits appeared separately over tens of millions of years, ...
The Debrief

Scientists May Have Finally Solved One of Human Evolution’s Biggest Mysteries: When Our Ancestors Grew Larger

For decades, paleoanthropologists have largely agreed that somewhere along the evolutionary course from apelike ancestors to modern humans, our bodies got dramatically larger. However, one lingering ...

Morning Glories May Be Losing the Race Against Climate Change

A newly formed link between flower size and flowering time may be constraining how morning glories respond to environmental ...
Yahoo Malaysia

New study challenges a long-held assumption about human childbirth

For decades, one idea has shaped discussions about human evolution and birth: humans endure unusually difficult childbirth because large-brained babies must pass through a relatively narrow pelvis ...

Meet the Denisovans: Scientists finally reveal the face of a 400,000-year-old human species

For years, the Denisovans occupied an unusual place in the story of human evolution. They were recognised as one of our closest extinct relatives, yet almost nobody knew what they actually looked like ...
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Human Ancestors' Growth Spurt: The Complex Story of Body Size Evolution

A new study has called into question a long-held assumption in anthropology: that human ancestors gradually increased in size over millions of years, and in a linear manner. Researchers from the ...
Motor Trend

2008 Subaru WRX STI vs. Mitsubishi Evo X: The Rivalry That Still Hits Like a Grudge Match

[This story originally appeared in the March 2008 issue of MotorTrend with the headline "Bloodsport."] Ladieeeez and gentlemen, welcome to the octagon for the main event, a grudge match of epic ...