Human Genetics & Evolution
Neanderthals and modern humans--a key to understanding human evolution
Part 1
By William Moore, October 3, 2008
This is the first of a two-part article. Two recent announcements of research into the relationship between Neanderthals and modern humans tend to add weight to the interpretation that the ancestors ...
Science, religion and society: Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion
By Joe Kay, March 15, 2007
In his new book, Dawkins has done us a service, if only in making more acceptable the general proposition that religion and science are at odds with each other, and that it is science that should win ...
New fossils illuminate the evolution of land vertebrates from fish
By Walter Gilberti, May 1, 2006
A major fossil discovery at a site in northern Canada has provided compelling evidence of the evolutionary transition from ancient fish to the first tetrapods—four-legged terrestrial vertebrates tha...
New fossil discovery shows earlier human migration out of Africa
By Walter Gilberti, May 29, 2000
A multinational team of paleoanthropologists has published their findings following the unearthing last May of the oldest undisputed human fossil remains outside of Africa. The remains of two individu...
New fossil find provides important clues to man's prehistory
By Frank Gaglioti, May 5, 1999
The April 23 issue of the Science magazine announced the discovery of the fossilised remains of a new species of hominid [human ancestor], which provides important clues into the early history of huma...
