The Top Ten Scientific Discoveries of the Decade

The Top Ten Scientific Discoveries of the Decade

Breakthroughs include measuring the true nature of the universe, finding new species of human ancestors, and unlocking new ways to fight disease

Homo sapiens lived 150,000 years ago in a tropical forest in Ivory Coast, according to a recent study published in the journal Nature. Research by an international team of archaeologists and anthropologists has revealed that African forests did not constitute a major ecological barrier for our ancestors, thus changing the understanding of human evolution, according to Agerpres.

** Our ancestors split up for a million years, only to reunite 300,000 years ago ** They gained significant brain improvements from this evolutionary twist ** The details of the split are unclear, but they document the complexity of the emergence of a new species