#Evolution

Joseph Shavit

What a new prehistoric ‘Hobbit’ creature tells us about evolution, mammals and dinosaurs

Research describes the discovery of three new species and hints at rapid evolution immediately after the mass extinction of the dinosaurs.

Joseph Shavit

Cave painting show Neanderthals were not the boorish relatives of Homo sapiens

Neanderthals, long perceived to have been unsophisticated and brutish, really did paint stalagmites in a Spanish cave 60,000 years ago.

Joseph Shavit

Scientists hail Dragon Man skull discovery as a new species and Homo Sapiens closest relative

A near-perfectly preserved ancient human fossil known as the Harbin cranium sits in the Geoscience Museum in Hebei GEO University