Ancient genomes and the evolutionary path of modern humans
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Growing evidence from archaic and early modern human genomes brings new insights to the emergence of modern humans. We recount…
Growing evidence from archaic and early modern human genomes brings new insights to the emergence of modern humans. We recount…
We go way back.
Палеогенетики впервые с высокой точностью прочитали геном неандертальского мужчины, жившего на Алтае около 110 тысяч лет назад. У…
An unexpected hybrid we never knew about.
Tradition says that Homo neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens were intellectually distinct. But archaeologists and anthropologists…
Paleogenomic research has expanded rapidly over the past two decades, igniting heated debates about handling human remains. Who…
Több mint 500 ezer évvel ezelőtt a homo sapiens sapiens elődei némelyikénél egy olyan genetikai mutáció jelent meg, amely…
Hand axes crafted by Homo erectus required skills and planning—and likely, generational knowledge. Nick…
In our mythologies, there’s often a singular moment when we became “human.” Eve plucked the fruit of the tree of knowledge and…
What looks like a bright, sharp dividing line between humans and other animals is really an artefact of extinction.
When quarry workers dislodged a skullcap and a bunch of bones from a cave near Düsseldorf in 1856, little did anyone realize…
What pea-sized brain organoids reveal about consciousness, the self and our future as a speciesBy Alysson MuotriRead at Aeon
Six years ago I wrote a post (Denisovans interbred with Homo erectus) based on an article that suggested that Denisovans had…
Near the Arctic Circle, a group of Neanderthals may have persisted for thousands of years after the rest of their species…
Near the Arctic Circle, a group of Neanderthals may have persisted for thousands of years after the rest of their species…
Near the Arctic Circle, a group of Neanderthals may have persisted for thousands of years after the rest of their species…
Near the Arctic Circle, a group of Neanderthals may have persisted for thousands of years after the rest of their species…
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A A recent paper by Stephane Peyregne et al., (Nuclear DNA from two early Neandertals reveals 80,000 years of genetic…
Long before this cave painting was made, our ancestors met and interacted with multiple types of ancient human. (Credit…
An international team of scientists has sequenced the nuclear genomes of two Neanderthals who lived in Europe around 120,000…
Геномы европейских неандертальцев живших 120 и 50 тысяч лет назад, оказались больше похожи, чем геномы живших в одно время европе…
Scientists keep prying into the sex lives of Neanderthals. In the past decade, they’ve revealed that Neanderthals got busy with…
How old are the Denisovans, when did they meet and interbreed with Neanderthals, when and why did both groups become extinct in…
Процент ДНК неандертальцев в геноме Homo sapiens за последние 45 тысяч лет существенно не изменился
Researchers from the Max Planck Institue in Leipzig Germany announced that they have determined hominid remains found in a cave…
Neanderthals and Denisovans are extinct groups of hominins that separated from each other more than 390,000 years ago. These…
He isolated DNA from Egyptian mummies. He discovered the Denisovans, an extinct ancient human species, by sequencing DNA from a…
Neanderthals may have gone extinct 30,000 years ago, but they still live on inside modern Europeans and Asians. Ever since…
Ученые из восьми стран проанализировали геномы пяти неандертальцев, живших в Европе 39–47 тысяч лет назад, и выяснили, что европе…
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Two new, fascinating papers on Neanderthal genetic introgression and the sequencing of an entire Neanderthal’s genome came out…
The findings partially explain why humans were more successful than Neanderthals.
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Modern humans are a little more Neanderthal than we thought. A highly detailed genetic analysis of a Neanderthal woman who…
orcid.org/0000-0001-5816-9771Embracing the rationalist and empirically-based perspective of science is not easy. Modern science…
Genetic analysis shows a tooth from the Denisova cave in Siberia is only the fourth specimen from elusive early humans who…
I was honored and humbled to speak at the Doctoral Hooding Ceremony last weekend at the University of North Carolina at Chapel…
I was honored and humbled to speak at the Doctoral Hooding Ceremony last weekend at the University of North Carolina at Chapel…
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Far from being stuck in a stuffy past, the unifying message of modern archaeology is vital for steering us towards a positive…
Heterozygosity is lower in all non-Africans when compared to Africans.What does this mean?First of all what is Hetrerozygosity?He…
The Dinosaur Debacle Picture a day millions of years past, in a land as yet untouched by the vagaries of man. Dense forests…
First Analysis of Y Chromosome in Neanderthals This article was very interesting from Fernando L. Mendez. This was the…
We’ve known for years that a lot of us are a little Neanderthal: among non-Africans, Neanderthal genes account for about 1-4…
We might not give Neanderthals much respect, but modern humans probably owe our survival, at least in part, to our now-extinct…
SPECIALE DICEMBRE – È entrata nella classifica di Science sulle 10 scoperte più importanti del 2015 e, soprattutto, ha…
Plants and…
Environment Photo credit: Erich Ferdinand/Flickr CC BY 2.0 After examining the DNA of an ancient European man…
Analyses of Neanderthal genomes indicate that when anatomically modern humans ventured out of Africa around 50,000 years ago…
Plants and…
La mise au jour de dents de nature inédite en Chine pose de nouvelles questions sur la préhistoire humaine en Chine. Retour sur…
An international consortium of scientists report sequencing the full genome of a man who lived 45,000 years ago. The DNA was…
Kilka dni temu prestiżowy tygodnik Amerykańskiej Akademii Nauk, PNAS, opublikował wyniki intrygującego badania: grupa naukowców…
How the idea of a savage human ancestry caught fire in public imaginations. Read more… Please consider subscribing to The…
It’s weird how social media works sometimes. This appeared in two of my social media feed this morning, Facebook and Quora:Seeing…
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A toe bone from a 130,000-year-old Neanderthal contains evidence that points to a greater amount of interbreeding between…
What does it mean to be part Neanderthal? We’ve known since 2010 that if you have any non-African ancestry you probably carry…
Scientists at the University of Washington’s Department of Genome Sciences, report that they can zero in on remnant Neanderthal…
The introduction to this series can be found here. Summary: Genetic evidence shows that various Pleistocene populations…
Teaching anthropology and human evolution involves tearing down stubborn misconceptions and stimulating students to discover…
Genetic changes that distinguish us from Neanderthals could throw light on how humans came to dominate planetThe post…
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A recent analysis of the nuclear DNA of a Neanderthal toe from Altai has caused widespread interest. Kay Prüffer et al., The…
Using DNA extracted from a woman’s toe bone that dates back 50,000 years, scientists find evidence for a long history of…
This figure is from the Supplement (p.62) of a recent Nature paper describing a high quality genome sequence obtained from the…
Peter K. Dearden. One key question in biology is what makes us different as a species. Humans have a remarkable set of…
Me temo que este mes he sido poco original, y he decidido hablar de la secuenciación del ADN mitocondrial obtenido de los…
Call it the Pleistocene hanky panky chart. Now that scientists have sequenced a complete Neanderthal genome, we have more…
Plants and…
Our favorite ancient cousins, the Neanderthals, are in the news again. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for…
Científicos de la Universidad de California en Berkeley (EEUU) han demostrado, a través de un análisis genómico de huesos fósiles…
An international research team led by Kay Prüfer and Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in…
A comparison of the high-quality genome sequence of a 50,000-year-old Neanderthal woman with those of modern humans and…
Mixing It Up 50,000 Years Ago — Who Slept With Whom? by Christopher…
El sueco Svante Pääbo, director del Departamento de Genética del Instituto Max Planck de Antropología Evolutiva en Leipzig…
There seems to have been a lot of inter-"species" sex during the Paleolithic (left), and that's just from a handful of Eurasian…
Excavations in the Denisovan cave have yielded tiny bone fragments that have had an outsized impact on our understanding of…
Researchers found the Neanderthal in this Siberian Cave. Photo: Bence Viola A new analysis of Neanderthal genomes has found…
Genetic changes that distinguish us from Neanderthals could throw light on how humans came to dominate planetResearchers have…