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Early humans may have spread out of Africa after rapid climate change triggered advances in human thinking and behavior, new research suggests.

June 12, 2006

Teeth and jaw fossils discovered in Ethiopia provide a link between two species of early human ancestors, filling a crucial gap in human evolution, scientists have announced.

April 13, 2006
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Genome researchers have identified more than 700 regions in human DNA where apparently strong selection has occurred, driving the spread of genes linked to traits from bone structure to skin color.

March 8, 2006
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The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has evolved into several distinct sublineages—potentially complicating efforts to develop effective vaccines.

February 7, 2006
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It may be a threat to humans' long-term future on the planet, but climate change may have helped bring us into being in the first place, some scientists say.

February 2, 2006
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Fossil remains of animal prey in the republic of Georgia suggest Neandertals were more intelligent and resourceful than scientists previously thought.

January 25, 2006
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As many as three million men living today may be descended from a fifth-century Irish warlord known as Niall of the Nine Hostages, geneticists say.

January 20, 2006

Most modern Indians descended from South Asians, not invading Central Asian steppe dwellers, a new genetic study reports.

January 10, 2006

A study of ancient cemeteries in North America suggests that a prehistoric baby boom swept the continent about 2,500 years ago, just as farming was taking root.

January 9, 2006

Europeans inherit their looks from Stone Age hunters, according to a new study, which compared facial features of modern Europeans with those of ancient skeletons.

December 20, 2005
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Early humans colonized northern Europe 200,000 years earlier than previously thought, as shown by ancient stone tools discovered along the British coast.

December 16, 2005
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At least two distinct groups of early humans colonized the Americas, a new study says, reviving the debate about who the first Americans were and when they arrived.

December 12, 2005
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Footprintlike marks found in Mexico have recently been dated at over a million years old, renewing debate about when humans first arrived in the Americas.

December 1, 2005
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New research suggests that before reaching Europe modern humans arrived in India, where they created some of the earliest human culture and drove an older hominid species to extinction.

November 14, 2005
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Wildlife is becoming "globalized," biologists warn, as the spread of animals and plants makes species more homogenous at the expense of regionally unique varieties.

November 11, 2005

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