Only sub-Saharan Africans` ancestors didn`t interbreed with Neanderthals`

Last Updated: Friday, November 2, 2012, 19:48

Very few populations of modern humans do not carry genetic traces of Neanderthals, researchers say.

Human ancestors recreated from ancient bones

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 23, 2012, 16:22

Life-like models of the three human ancestors - Australopithecus Afarensis, Homo Erectus and Neanderthal man - have been re-created in 3-D from ancient bones.

Mammal ancestors `not as puny as thought`

Last Updated: Monday, October 8, 2012, 17:12

The common ancestor of modern mammals may have actually been more like a small monkey in size, a genetic analysis has suggested.

Our ancestors used fire a million years ago: Study

Last Updated: Tuesday, April 3, 2012, 08:39

The ash and burnt bone samples found there suggest fires frequently burned in that spot, researchers said Monday.

Origins of our earliest oxygen-breathing ancestors

Last Updated: Monday, January 23, 2012, 13:05

Scientists have shed light on a bacterial enzyme that offers clues on the origins of our earliest oxygen-breathing ancestors.

Polar bears ancestors originated in Ireland

Last Updated: Friday, July 8, 2011, 16:24

The overlaps then led to hybridisation, or interbreeding, which is an event that caused maternal DNA from brown bears to be introduced into polar bears.

Our ancestors `decorated houses with homemade paint`

Last Updated: Sunday, October 31, 2010, 21:02

Archaeologists have unearthed evidence that our ancestors, the neolithic men, decorated the insides of their Stone Age houses with homemade paint nearly 5,000 years ago.