Possible New Human Species Unearthed in China
Scientists in China have found what may be a new species of human. Fossils show a group of people with similarities to and differences from modern humans.
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Scientists To Clone Woolly Mammoth
Russian and South Korea scientists have teamed up to recreate a woolly mammoth – a prehistoric creature that last walked the earth some 4,500 years ago. The teams aim to get to work on thawed remains of the extinct mammal recovered after global warming thawed Siberia’s permafrost. The mammoth’s tissues are to be cloned by…
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New Evidence That Asteroid Hit Earth 13,000 Years Ago
New evidence supports the idea that a huge space rock collided with our planet about 13,000 years ago and broke up in Earth’s atmosphere, a new study suggests. This impact would have been powerful enough to melt the ground, and could have killed off many large mammals and humans. It may even have set off…
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5,300-Year-Old Iceman’s Genetic Blueprints Unveiled
The 5,300-year-old Iceman had brown eyes, Lyme disease and modern-day Mediterranean relatives
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DNA Reveals Neanderthal Extinction Clues
Neanderthals were already on the verge of extinction in Europe by the time modern humans arrived on the scene, a study suggests. DNA analysis shows most Neanderthals in western Europe died out as early as 50,000 years ago – thousands of years before our own species appeared. A small group of Neanderthals then recolonised parts…
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The Next Ice Age and the Anthropocene
If you’ve wondered where to look for signs that Earth is entering a geological epoch of our own making, the Anthropocene, a good place to start is the growing body of research concluding that what was once seen as an inevitable descent into the next ice age has been put off for a very long…
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Hope in the Age of Man
The Anthropocene does not represent the failure of environmentalism. It is the stage on which a new, more positive and forward-looking environmentalism can be built.
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Separating You and Me? 4.74 Degrees
The world is even smaller than you thought. Adding a new chapter to the research that cemented the phrase “six degrees of separation” into the language, scientists at Facebook and the University of Milan reported on Monday that the average number of acquaintances separating any two people in the world was not six but 4.74.
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Cartography of the Anthropocene
A map of the human epoch.
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An Epoch Debate
An influential group of geologists, ecologists, and biologists argue that humans have so changed the planet that it is entering another phase of geological time, called the Anthropocene, “the Age of Man.”