Some researchers think stone tools can answer the big
questions in human evolution: How do we differ from other primates and when did our unique human traits emerge?
When the Ice Age ended, about 15,000 years ago, population began to climb again, setting the stage for a major turning
point in human evolution.
Modern mothers were discouraged from breastfeeding, and given the impression bottle feeding represented the next
stage in human evolution in which they would no longer be controlled by biology.
This implies that a basic form of spoken language could have evolved at any
time in human evolution, without requiring any changes in vocal anatomy.
The next giant
leap in human evolution may not come from new fields like genetic engineering or artificial intelligence, but rather from appreciating our ancient brains.
To really understand how man evolved, we'd have to go back in time a few million years and explore the lengthy
line in human evolution.
A next
step in human evolution is that we will be communicating from the universal language of our hearts; which is love.
Regardless of when exactly humankind managed to make fire a regular presence in their lives, scientists agree it was a turning
point in human evolution.
The mutations in these regions represent key
changes in human evolution over the last 40,000 years, after our ancestors first left Africa and were going global.
Homo naledi's hands and feet could reveal answers about a key
shift in human evolution — the move from a life of climbing trees to one spent walking on the ground
Conversely, the propensity to punish non-cooperative behaviour, observable in some contemporary societies, was probably acquired relatively
recently in human evolution» (Grimalda).
Extended intervals of heavy rains created deep lakes in several parts of eastern Africa at times
critical in human evolution, according to a team led by geologist Martin H. Trauth of Potsdam (Germany) University.
This is the famous site of Dmanisi, Georgia, which offers an unparalleled glimpse into a harsh early
chapter in human evolution, when primitive members of our genus Homo struggled to survive in a new land far north of their ancestors» African home, braving winters without clothes or fire and competing with fierce carnivores for meat.
«This is very exciting research that shows again the remarkable power of ancient DNA analysis to help solve seemingly intractable questions
in human evolution science,» says Darren Curnoe from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.
The scientists said more research is needed to test their theories about the role that groundwater may have
played in human evolution and dispersal.
The big - brained, ape - jawed Piltdown Man was hailed as a major missing link
in human evolution when he was discovered in a gravel pit outside a small U.K. village in 1912.
The famous human relative known as «Lucy» has reigned alone as queen of an important time and
place in human evolution: Ethiopia about 3.2 million years ago, roughly the time when the first stone tools appear in East Africa.
Stony Brook University professor John J. Shea recently published a new work through Cambridge University Press entitled Stone
Tools in Human Evolution: Behavioral Differences among Technological Primates.
Although gluten is dangerous to our long term health and causes many chronic conditions, the forces of natural
selection in human evolution has not improved human's impaired ability to consume foods with gluten because gluten tends not to affect human reproductive health in the short term.
«Our working hypothesis is that dogs and humans probably evolved some of these skills as a result of similar evolutionary processes, so probably some things that
happened in human evolution were very similar to processes that happened in dog domestication,» MacLean said.
Mahatma Gandhi said ««Cow Protection» to me is one of the most wonderful
phenomena in all human evolution; for it takes the human being beyond his species... Man through the cow is enjoined to realize his identity with all that lives... «Cow Protection» is the gift of Hinduism to the world.»»
In the disturbing investigations and speculations of Julian Jaynes, language preceded self - conscious
thought in human evolution.
Sir Julian Huxley, former UNESCO director, regards birth control as the only real hope in the problem and terms it «a prerequisite for anything that you can call progress and
advance in human evolution.»