First use of stone tools pushed back by 8 lakh years
Published in The Hindu on August 12, 2010 So when did hominins (members of human lineage) start using stone tools for the first time? Until recently, based on available evidence,…
Category: Hominin
Editorial: A new human species
Published in The Hindu on April 10, 2010 Nearly 10 years after the genome of a living individual was first sequenced, and shortly after the sequencing of the genome of…
New species in human’s family tree found
Published in The Hindu on March 25, 2010 A team of scientists has successfully sequenced mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of a hominin who had lived in the Altai Mountain region of…
