Aux origines

New research suggests that depression risk, smoking addiction, and other health and cognitive traits may be partially shaped by the Neanderthal DNA that persists in modern humans.

Des tablettes montrent que les Babyloniens utilisaient des outils mathématiques abstraits qui ne seront redécouverts qu’au xiv e  siècle en Europe.

First genetic evidence of modern human DNA in a Neanderthal individual.

It’s official: There really was a giant, flightless bird with a head the size of a horse’s wandering about in the winter twilight of the high Arctic some 53 million years ago.

COLD SPRING HARBOR, NEW YORK—A new genetic study suggests that Neanderthals and modern humans interbred well before scientists have previously supposed.

We know that modern humans successfully managed to leave Africa around 65,000 years ago, and that when they did they bumped into other species of human living in different areas. We know that we must have met Neanderthals along the journey, because parts of their DNA still survive in the genome of everyone not of African heritage, meaning that our ancestors interbred with the ancient human species.

The affair began 100,000 years ago, much earlier than we thought.

Les êtres humains qui peuplaient l'île indonésienne de Florès il y a près de 15 000 ans n'étaient pas des Homo Sapiens. Ces "hobbits", comme on les surnomme, appartenaient à une autre espèce encore inconnue, selon une nouvelle étude. 

De nouvelles études crâniennes indiquent que l'hommes de Flores n’était pas un humain moderne malade mais pourrait être apparent&eacu...

Romance may have existed in some form long before the origin of humanity, and some believe it was born out of death and violence

Une nouvelle étude de 29 des 40 figurines préhistoriques retrouvées à Mal'ta et Burnet en Sibérie montre que ces statuettes n'ont pas grand-chose en commun avec les vénus préhistoriques du reste de l'europe.

Archaeologists from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem revealed in Israel a prehistoric village, dated around 12,000 years ago, in excavations in the fertile Jordan Valley.

Neanderthals and humans interbred about 40,000 years earlier than was previously thought, a study suggests.

Using several different methods of DNA analysis, an international research team has found what they consider to be strong evidence of an interbreeding event between Neanderthals and modern humans that occurred tens of thousands ...

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An evolutionary burst 540 million years ago filled the seas with an astonishing diversity of animals. The trigger behind that revolution is finally coming into focus

SCIENCES - Les premières relations sexuelles entre les deux espèces n'ont pas eu lieu il y a 40.000 ans environ, mais il y a 100.000 ans.

L'énigmatique homme de Florès, découvert en 2003 dans une caverne de l'île indonésienne, n'a rien d'un Homo sapiens, selon une étude publiée lundi dans le Journal of Human Evolution après plus de dix ans de controverse scientifique.

L'homme de Flores...