Article: Before the exodus; Human evolution.(African bushmen's mitochondrial DNA)

Article: Tribe that began human race Scientists have uncovered evidence that climate change thousands of years ago prompted an epic trek across the Red Sea - which proved to be the turning point in the colonisation of the world
The Sunday Telegraph London;  May 10, 2009 ;     649 words ......crossed the Red Sea 70,000 years ago, scientists have discovered...trace the origins of modern homo sapiens back to a single group...between 90,000 and 70,000 years ago caused sea levels to drop...few hundred individuals." Homo sapiens, known as "modern humans...South ...

Article: All Family Trees Lead to `Eve,' An African, Scientists Conclude;Genetic Analysis Indicates Common Ancestor 200,000 Years Ago
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 ...

Article: Evolution's Small Wonder: A three-foot-tall "hobbit" who lived in Indonesia up to 12,000 years ago is changing the way we think about the human family.(The Year In Science: 2004)
Popular Science;  January 1, 2005 ;     484 words ......island of Flores as recently as 12,000 years ago--a time when our own species had already...European fossils from our own species, Homo sapiens, Brown notes, and the oldest of them were made 94,000 years ago. Homo sapiens is thought to have arrived in the region a mere ...

Article: 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 ...

Article: 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 ...

Article: Human origins recede in Australia.(discovery of human occupation of Australia between 116,000 and 176,000 years ago)
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 ...

Article: 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 ...

Article: Indonesian 'hobbit' a new human species; Study of skull reveals tiny skeleton found 4 years ago is not homo sapiens.(Main)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  January 30, 2007 ;     255 words ......skeleton discovered in Indonesia four years ago is definitely that of a new species...compared the skull of the 3-foot-tall Homo floresiensis, discovered on the...being an underdeveloped example of Homo sapiens. The hobbit, as Homo floresiensis...scientists, lived on Flores 18,000 ...

Article: Homo sapiens
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology;      226 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 ...

Article: Humans, ancestor coexisted, study says Precursor lived as recently as 27,000 years ago in Java, report says
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, ...

Article: 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...

Article: DNA study backs theory; Africa: It suggests that modern man populated the planet as early as 50,000 years ago
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 ...

Article: 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 ...

Article: Earliest Homo sapiens fossils discovered in Ethiopia.
Life Science Weekly;  July 7, 2003 ;     343 words ......the earliest modern human, Homo sapiens, estimated at 154,000 to 160...between 100,000 and 300,000 years ago, says UC Berkeley paleoanthropologist...2 million and 5.8 million years ago. Those finds, of the genus...hominid, dated to 2.5 million years ago, which may have ...