The Neanderthal Within
In the article Neanderthals Were People Too, Jon Mooallem describes an electric moment where he felt a visceral connection to our long lost human cousins. Watching a group of archeologist...
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Hello Cousin
Scientists have unearthed a trove of bones in a South African cave belonging to a previously unidentified early human relative. Composite skeleton of Homo nadeli along with other bones found...
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Meeting At the Crossroads
A skull found in a previously undisturbed cave in Israel may hold important new evidence about human migration and intermixing with Neanderthals.The paper published last month by scientists from Tel...
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Neanderthal Fade Away
Neanderthals, our ancient cousins whose DNA is still found in traces in modern humans, faded away in Europe about 10,000 years earlier than scientists once thought, according to a new...
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Our Neanderthal Cousins
There’s much to recommend in Carl Zimmer’s profile of David Reich in Discovery Magazine. Not least of which are details on our favorite extinct human cousins, Neanderthals. Neanderthals are the...
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Location, Location, Location: Did Humans Start Out in Southern Africa?
by Mike Macpherson, Shirley Wu, and Joanna Mountain A young Hadza hunter From just flecks of bone and specks of DNA, scientists have been able to piece together a story...
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Human Prehistory 101: Out of (Eastern) Africa
Take a look at the second installment of 23andMe’s Human Prehistory 101 series. 23andMe’s creative team (led by chief illustrator Ariana Killoran) recently released “Out of (Eastern) Africa.” ...
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Direct Genetic Link between Australia and India Provides New Insight into the Origins of Australian Aborigines
In 1974, scientists digging in the dry lake bed of Lake Mungo in southeastern Australia uncovered the skeleton of a man preserved in the deep layers of sand and clay....
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Scientists Publish Largest-Ever Study on the Genetics of Modern Africans
When scientific research is published, the authors often confess that they wish they’d collected more data. Critical reviews of research studies often say the same thing. Indeed, if there’s anything...
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