Paleoanthropology and evolution

I don't mind being about 4 % Neanderthal :) Paleoanthropology (English: Palaeoanthropology; from Greek: παλαιός (palaeos) "old, ancient"), anthrōpos (ἄνθρωπος), "man", understood to mean humanity, and -logia (-λογία), "discourse" or "study"), which combines the disciplines of paleontology and physical anthropology, is the study of ancient humans as found in fossil hominid evidence
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Atheist Zone
Evolution.....
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Humanity's forgotten return to Africa revealed in DNA
Humanity's forgotten return to Africa revealed in DNA - life - 03 February 2014 - New Scientist
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ANCIENT ART
Prehistoric art: Human with feline head, made of mammoth ivory, ca. 30,000-28,000 BC.
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Modern Humans Wandered Out of Africa via Arabia
Genome-Project Human Migration Map
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X. It’s what’s happening
The Human Genome Project provides a mountain of evidence also. human/animal DNA sequencing, genetic commonalities, common traits in embryos, and bacterial resistance to antibiotics.
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The downside of sex with Neanderthals
The downside of sex with Neanderthals. Some modern humans carry immune genes that originated in Neanderthals and a related species. But these genes may have come at a price.
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Mammoth ivory horse pendant with traces of paint. Sunghir site, Upper Paleolithic (28 000 years BP).
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ivory carving of a mammoth, 35,000 years old
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Baffling 400,000-Year-Old Clue to Human Origins (Published 2013)
Baffling 400,000-Year-Old Clue to Human Origins http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/05/science/at-400000-years-oldest-human-dna-yet-found-raises-new-mysteries.html
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This picture has creationists terrified
'The Picture Has Creationists Terrified'--Side-by-side comparison of the chromosomes of humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans (from left to right for each chromosome) From JJ Yunis, O Prakash, "The origin of man: a chromosomal pictorial legacy"
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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.
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European Prehistoric Art - Past Signs and Present Memories
Dordogne, Grotte de Lascaux, Palaeolithic
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Wings of Stone by John Mumaw | 500px
Wings of Stone--This heron petroglyph is located in an isolated and rarely visited area in the Colorado Plateau, so it has not suffered any vandalism. It has about an 8 ft. length and a 6ft. wingspan
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Our new paper on why human evolution accelerated
Why human evolution accelerated
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How sex with evolutionary cousins shaped our immune system