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<![CDATA[Our ancestors did NOT evolve from knuckle-dragging apes, finds new study]]>
Researchers who examined the wrist bones of several primate species believe our early human ancestors never used their knuckles to walk like gorillas.

Instead they evolved from other apes who spent most of their time in trees and descended to the ground upright.]]>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/130434/1/http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/130434/1/plime.com <![CDATA[Key Feature Of Immune System Survived In Humans, Other Primates For 60 Million Years]]>but no other known animal species.]]>http://www.plime.com/science/l/131409/1/http://www.plime.com/science/l/131409/1/plime.com <![CDATA[Study points to larger role of Asian ancestors in evolution]]>http://www.plime.com/science/l/30487/1/http://www.plime.com/science/l/30487/1/plime.com <![CDATA[Scientists break speed of light]]>http://www.plime.com/science/l/12299/1/http://www.plime.com/science/l/12299/1/plime.com <![CDATA[Super-Predators: Humans Force Rapid Evolution of Animals]]>http://www.plime.com/science/l/89079/1/http://www.plime.com/science/l/89079/1/plime.com <![CDATA['Missing Link' fossil found]]>
The preservation is so good, it is possible to see the outline of its fur and even traces of its last meal.

Update to this post.]]>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/115580/1/http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/115580/1/plime.com <![CDATA[New evidence of earliest North Americans]]>http://www.plime.com/science/l/56992/1/http://www.plime.com/science/l/56992/1/plime.com <![CDATA[Fossil of a Walking Seal Found]]>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/108954/1/http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/108954/1/plime.com <![CDATA[Ha-Ha! Ape study traces evolution of laughter ]]>http://www.plime.com/science/l/120227/1/http://www.plime.com/science/l/120227/1/plime.com <![CDATA[ Researchers find prehistoric ape fossils]]>http://www.plime.com/science/l/32752/1/http://www.plime.com/science/l/32752/1/plime.com <![CDATA[Fossil Fingers Solve Bird Wing Mystery?]]>http://www.plime.com/science/l/124885/1/http://www.plime.com/science/l/124885/1/plime.com <![CDATA[Fossil fish rewrites evolution of mammals]]>http://www.plime.com/science/l/3686/1/http://www.plime.com/science/l/3686/1/plime.com <![CDATA[Gene Evolution Process Discovered]]>
In research published this week, the Leeds team reports that a protein known as REST plays a central role in switching specific genes on and off, thereby determining how specific traits develop in offspring.]]>http://www.plime.com/science/l/126225/1/http://www.plime.com/science/l/126225/1/plime.com <![CDATA[Ancient skeletons discovered in Georgia threaten to overturn the theory of human evolution]]>
Now a stunning archaeological discovery suggests our primitive ancestors left Africa to explore the world around 800,000 years earlier than was previously thought before returning to their home continent.]]>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/132845/1/http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/132845/1/plime.com <![CDATA[Giant Fossil Bats Out of Africa]]>http://www.plime.com/science/l/53073/1/http://www.plime.com/science/l/53073/1/plime.com <![CDATA[Rare Sandpipers Found in Myanmar]]>http://www.plime.com/science/l/50493/1/http://www.plime.com/science/l/50493/1/plime.com <![CDATA[£4.4 Trillion To Prove Evolution]]>here by Jetka) has offered 10 Trillion Turkish Lira to anyone who can provide a fossil sample that demonstrates evolutionary transition.]]>http://www.plime.com/science/l/79337/1/http://www.plime.com/science/l/79337/1/plime.com <![CDATA[$250k to anyone who can prove evolution]]>http://www.plime.com/science/l/88234/1/http://www.plime.com/science/l/88234/1/plime.com <![CDATA[How the Neanderthals met their grisly end 30,000 years ago...we ate them]]>
But now, according to a leading fossil expert, it seems the race may have met a rather grisly end. They were eaten by our ancestors, the modern humans.]]>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/114994/1/http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/114994/1/plime.com <![CDATA[Flatfish Fossils Fill In Evolutionary Missing Link]]>http://www.plime.com/science/l/68226/1/http://www.plime.com/science/l/68226/1/plime.com