The genomic journey of modern and archaic humans may be older than we thought
Research conducted at the Department of Biology, University of Padova, has identified critical genomic milestones in the ...
10 fascinating discoveries about Neanderthals in 2024, from 'Thorin' the last Neanderthal to an ancient glue factory
This year, we learned that our Neanderthal cousins were a lot like us, despite treading their own path that ended in ...
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A Mysterious Boulder Carved to Look Like a Tortoise Shell May Offer Evidence of the Middle East’s Earliest Ritual Ceremonies
The 35,000-year-old rock was found in Manot Cave, which was inhabited by both prehistoric humans and Neanderthals ...
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What Makes Us Human? Researchers Claim We’re Same Species As Neanderthals And Denisovans
We Homo sapiens possess surprisingly few functional genes that distinguish us from extinct human lineages such as ...
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Neanderthals and humans mated much more recently than we thought
Research shows a link between Zlatý kůň and Ranis, early European modern humans who retained African traits, lacked ...
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The Oldest Human Genomes in Europe Show How an Entire Branch of Humanity Disappeared
These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe. Like any good research, these genomes lead to more ...
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A 50 thousand year-old love story between humans and Neanderthals
Tens of thousands of years ago, modern humans mated with Neanderthals. But exactly how and when that happened, and who those ...
New studies show humans and Neanderthals interbred over 7,000 years
On Thursday, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig reported on studies revealing that modern ...
Scientists may have discovered a new form of ancient humans known as 'large head people'
CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Scientists have introduced what they believe may be a new ancient human species. The Juluren, or "large ...
An entirely new form of ancient human may have been discovered
Researchers claim that they have discovered an entirely new form of ancient human and it has a bigger brain than any we've ...
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An elusive creature of the deep can live for centuries. Scientists think they know why
Their genomes revealed evidence of Neanderthal ancestry, meaning that early Homo sapiens living in the region mated with ...
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300,000-year-old human fossils from E. China identified as earliest archaic humans in East Asia to transition toward modern Homo sapiens
A number of 300,000-year-old human fossils from Hualongdong site in East China's Anhui Province have been identified as the earliest archaic humans in East Asia to transition toward modern Homo ...