Tag: Human Origins

What DNA Says About Our Human Family Episode II, Ancient Relatives: Neanderthals and Denisovans

More info and downloads: In Episode 2, our study of human evolution continues with a look at our ancient ancestors, the hominins. Who were they and what did they look like? We will look at DNA evidence for how modern humans evolved from these ancient ancestors and spread around the globeā€”and why we are different […]

This ancient rock is changing our theory on the origin of life | Tara Djokic

Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized Talk recommendations and more. Exactly when and where did life on Earth begin? Scientists have long thought that it emerged three billion years ago in the ocean — until astrobiologist Tara Djokic and her team made an unexpected discovery in the western Australian […]