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Anna Shvets
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When the first modern humans arose in East Africa sometime between 200,000 and 300,000 years ago, the world was very different…
Svante Pääbo, the father of paleogenomics, went funny before his Nobel Prize.
Who brought us COVID-19? The Neanderthals. The susceptibility to the SARS-CoV2 coronavirus, but also to diabetes, obesity…
Neanderthals and woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) co-existed in similar geographic and environmental European settings…
Процент ДНК неандертальцев в геноме Homo sapiens за последние 45 тысяч лет существенно не изменился
You might say it’s the ultimate prize of science, to discover when, where and why humans evolved. For a long time, the evidence…
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How can one ever justify creating a new species name based on scraps of fossil bones or teeth?
Neanderthals and humans branched off about 600,000 years ago, possibly because of genetic incompatibility in the context of the…
Genomic expression carried over from Neanderthal DNA Larry H. Bernstein, MD, FCAP, Curator LPBI Neanderthal DNA Shapes…
Study says Neanderthal-derived DNA is associated with 12 medical conditions affecting our skin, immune system, metabolism, and…
Plants and…
(Photo: hmnh/Flickr)Earlier this summer, a team of scientists led by Leipzig researcher Svante Pääbo identified a man who…
Analyses of Neanderthal genomes indicate that when anatomically modern humans ventured out of Africa around 50,000 years ago…
Human migration in, and out of Africa was wrought with complex patterns of admixture (see my previous post summarizing the…
Svante Paabo examines the 45000 year old Ust’-Ishim femur, Image courtesy: The…
There has been much excitement over recent reports that something found in a cave in Gibraltar is…
And why is it important?
Image credit: Webridge, Wikimedia…
Science and Nature have just published research that supports a hypothesis about Neanderthal-human hybridisation that I…
Science and Nature have just published research that supports a hypothesis about Neanderthal-human hybridisation that I…
Welcome to our Friday feature link collection: SNPpets. During the week we come across a lot of links and reads that we think…
What does it mean to be part Neanderthal? We’ve known since 2010 that if you have any non-African ancestry you probably carry…
Next week is Darwin Day. February 12, Darwin’s birthday, is the occasion for an “international celebration of science and…
Ya puedes escuchar el audio de mi sección ¡Eureka! en La Rosa de los Vientos de Onda Cero. Como siempre, una transcripción del…
Is straight hair Neanderthal? A quick note on two recent studies on the relevance of Neanderthal introgression on modern…
It’s Friday and that means that it’s time for our Friday link dump, where we highlight some recent papers (and other stuff…
In two new studies, genetic researchers have shown that about 20 percent of the Neanderthal genome survives in modern humans of…
If you're a non-African person, you've got a little Neanderthal in your genome. In fact, maybe you have some other hominins in…
From this paper, this should be of interest for those who argue if they are .1 or .2% more/less Neandertal than others based on…
Neanderthal Genes Live On In Our Hair And…
Image: Jaroslav A. Polák/Flickr, cigarette by Daniel StuckeyWe’ve long known that humans and Neanderthals share at least some…
Flickr user leted. The completion of a Neanderthal genome showed that there was a very clear signal of Neanderthal DNA in…
Flickr user leted. The completion of a Neanderthal genome showed that there was a very clear signal of Neanderthal DNA in…
You've heard that Neanderthal DNA lives on in the genes of many modern humans — now there's evidence that it helped our early…
By studying which genes modern humans still retain from our Neanderthal ancestors, researchers are able to tell a clearer story…