Human evolution

ARHGAP11B is a human-specific gene that amplifies basal progenitors, controls neural progenitor proliferation, and contributes to neocortex folding. It is capable of causing neocortex folding in mice. This likely reflects a role for ARHGAP11B in development and evolutionary expansion of the human neocortex, a conclusion consistent with the finding that the gene duplication that created ARHGAP11B occurred on the human lineage after the divergence from the chimpanzee lineage but before the divergence from Neanderthals.

Human mitochondrial lineage

Nacholapithecus kerioi was an ape that lived 15-14 million years ago during the Middle Miocene. Fossils have been found in the Nachola formation in northern Kenya. The only member of the genus Nacholapithecus, it is thought to be a key genus in early hominid evolution. Similar in body plan to Proconsul, it had a long vertebral column with six lumbar vertebrae, no tail, a narrow torso, large upper limbs with mobile shoulder joints, and long feet.

illustration presenting 25 million years of human evolution

human evolution hypothesis

hypothesized most recent common ancestor of the patrilineal Jewish priestly caste known as Kohanim

evolutionary hypothesis

Prehistoric archaeological site in Syria

tetrapod footprints which show hominin-like characteristics from the late Miocene on the western Crete, close to the village of Trachilos, west of Kissamos, in the Chania Prefecture

species of archaic humans

Biological evolution of H. sapiens within the last 50,000 years or so

Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup

hypothesis about human childbirth

classification of the human species

description of morphological alterations to the skeleton during the evolution of bipedalism in humans

gibbon–human last common ancestor

Economics and sociology concept

study of human behavior and cultural diversity

theory that human attraction to ethanol derives from dependence of the primate ancestors of Homo sapiens on ripe and fermenting fruit as a dominant food source

research paradigm that applies the basic principles of Darwinian evolution to understand the development of human behavior and cognitio

evolutionary adaptation of some poulations