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Ancient population crash: How humans almost went extinct
Humans may have been driven to the brink of extinction within the past million years, new research suggests ...
Biodiversity collapse? How ancient fossils can help signal future threats
Over the past 500 million years, five large-scale extinctions have taken place, with current predictions indicating that humans are rapidly ...
Discovery of new species Homo bodoensis may clean up — or muddle — the human family tree
A new ancestor of Homo sapiens has been named by scientists as part of an effort to clean up our ancestry. Homo ...
Brain size v body size: ‘There is no single evolutionary path to a bigger brain’
Over nearly 200 million years of mammal evolution… researchers have shown that brain size is actually secondary to body size ...
GM crops are not a ‘magic fix to climate change,’ but they are key to keeping us fed as temperatures rise
Future farmers face a big challenge: feeding everyone on Earth while being kind to the planet. Could genetically modified food ...
DNA testing of ancient Gibraltar Neanderthal remains reveals sex, relationship with other European Neanderthals
Two skulls from Gibraltar were among the first Neanderthal remains ever found, and have since become some of the best-studied ...
Neanderthal fossils help explain evolution of human face
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Neanderthals' upper jawbones continued ...