All Family Trees Lead to `Eve,' An African, Scientists Conclude;Genetic...

The Washington Post;  January 13, 1987 ;     700+ words ...About 200,000 years ago there lived one woman who...having children 200,000 years ago. She had many contemporaries...ancestors living 200,000 years ago, the claim argues, the...the apes a few million years ago into a species called Australopithecus...erectus and, about ...

Earliest Homo sapiens fossils older than thought

International Herald Tribune;  February 17, 2005 ;     592 words ......thought from about 195,000 years ago. The revised date, they said...earliest known remains of modern Homo sapiens. The research reinforces the...individuals lived 195,000 years ago, give or take 5,000 years...primitive than the first modern Homo sapiens. Richard Klein ...

Stone me - he's smart, he's tough and he's equal to any Homo sapiens

The Scotsman;  August 26, 2008 ;     597 words ......development of blades by Homo sapiens after they invaded...from Africa 40,000 years ago, has traditionally...extinction about 30,000 years ago. However, research...blades used by Homo sapiens. In fact, when...from Europe 28,000 years ago. Mr Eren ...

Human origins recede in Australia.(discovery of human occupation of...

Science News;  September 28, 1996 ;     680 words ......about 116,000 and 176,000 years ago. What's more, the researchers...masses, prior to 135,000 years ago, assert archaeologist Richard...Australia at around 60,000 years ago. The oldest art had been...period from 58,000 to 75,000 years ago, making it the oldest rock...or ...

Did Neanderthals fancy Homo sapiens?

International Herald Tribune;  February 17, 2005 ;     700+ words ......at least 250,000 years ago until they vanished...record about 28,000 years ago.Neanderthals may...their first modern Homo sapiens some 100,000 years ago in what is now...distinct from Homo sapiens, but not strictly...theory that modern Homo ...

Homo sapiens

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology;      225 words ...Homo sapiens [Sp]. Modern humans. Although...emerged about 40 000 years ago, claims of exceptionally early...x2009;000 and 70 000 years ago have been made for fossils...back to about 40 000 years ago too. The main controversy surrounding the origin of ...

Humans, ancestor coexisted, study says Precursor lived as recently as...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  December 13, 1996 ;     616 words ......heavy-duty species called Homo erectus may have lived alongside...for tens of thousands of years in Asia. The controversial...alive as recently as 27,000 years ago, some 200,000 years after...Africa about 1.8 million years ago and spread through Eurasia...slender, handier, ...

Jewellery originated over 100000 years ago

The Hindustan Times;  June 23, 2006 ;     458 words ......jewellery dates back to the time homo sapiens became behaviourally advanced some 100000 years ago, but scientists now claim...Ethiopia demonstrate that Homo sapiens in Africa were anatomically modern 160,000 years ago, but debate continues over...

DNA study backs theory; Africa: It suggests that modern man populated the...

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  December 7, 2000 ;     451 words ......planet as recently as 50,000 years ago. Such a view suggests that the first Homo sapiens held such dramatic evolutionary...have lived about 5 million years ago. And a common ancestor of...have lived about 170,000 years ago somewhere in Africa. With...recently, perhaps ...

Earliest Homo Sapiens fossils discovered in Ethiopia.

M2 Presswire;  June 12, 2003 ;     542 words ......June 2003-NSF: Earliest Homo Sapiens fossils discovered in Ethiopia...earliest modern human, Homo sapiens, estimated at 154,000 to...provide strong evidence that Homo sapiens and Neanderthals co-existed...between 100,000 and 300,000 years ago, says UC Berkeley ...

Homo sapiens 100,000 years older than once believed

China Daily;  March 20, 2007 ;     449 words ......from Morocco shows that the homo sapiens in the area had started having...is known that the species homo sapiens emerged in Africa 200,000 years ago, but the oldest fossils that...to around 20,000 to 30,000 years ago. The latest find shows that...than maybe ...

Climate rather than Homo sapiens responsible for Neanderthals' extinction

The Hindustan Times;  February 19, 2007 ;     241 words ......that modern humans or Homo sapiens were a major contributor...Neanderthals some 28,000 years ago. But now, anthropologists...climate, rather than Homo sapiens were the main cause...years, which meant that Homo sapiens could not be the main...

Human ancestors said to live as recently as 27,000 years ago

The Boston Globe;  December 13, 1996 ;     597 words ......until as recently as 27,000 years ago and coexisting with modern...techniques determined that Homo erectus, the first tool-usi...recently as 27,000 to 53,000 years ago -- about a million years...Meanwhile, modern humans -- Homo sapiens -- apparently evolved in...Asia ...

Human Ancestors Traced to 1 Small Group; DNA Study Suggests Current...

The Washington Post;  May 26, 1995 ;     700+ words ......who may have lived about 270,000 years ago. The researchers say those ancient...emerging far earlier, perhaps a million years ago, in several, widely separated parts...a more primitive human ancestor, Homo erectus, that had originated still...determine when the modern human species, ...

Kenyan fossils unveil new hominid species. (remains of a new species that...

Science News;  August 19, 1995 ;     583 words ......between 4.2 million and 3.9 million years ago, according to a new report. These...site date to about 3.6 million years ago. Leakey and Alan Walker of Pennsylvania...bone, the latter unearthed 30 years ago at Kanapoi by other investigators...from about 4 million to 3 million ...