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80,000 Year Old Le Rozel footprints in Normandy Represent Neanderthal Social Structure

September 10, 2019

Since 2012, Jeremy Duveau of France’s National Museum of Natural History and his colleagues have been excavating the Le Rozel …

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The Discovery of a 3.8 Million Year Old Australopithecus anamensis

September 5, 2019

The discovery of a mostly intact a 3.8 million year old fossil skull found buried within sandstone, from the Waranjo-Mille …

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Apidima 1 – A New Look At Old Skull

July 11, 2019

In the 1970’s, the Apidima Cave site in Greece was excavated by archaeologists. Lodged within a chunk of rock was …

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Seven Million Years of Human Evolution

December 7, 2018

This fascinating visual presentation from the American Museum of Natural History outlines what we know about human evolution by combining …

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How did the Eastern Island Maoi Get 13-Ton Hats

June 7, 2018

One of my interests in the peopling of the Americas are the Easter Island maoi statues made by the Rapanui …

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Wars Explain the post-Neolithic Y-chromosome bottleneck

June 2, 2018

A new paper in Nature Communications documents a strange bottleneck event occurring about 7,000 years ago, where the genetic diversity …

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The Presence of the Frontal Opercula in Homo naledi

May 15, 2018

When it comes to the evolution of the human brain, size isn’t everything. In fact, shape is a huge determinant. …

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First Native American Population Was Just Around 250 People

May 14, 2018

No one knows exactly the population of Native Americans when contact with Europeans occured. There are some estimates claiming there …

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Horse-riding Huns & Mongols Spread Hepatitis B, Plague into the Western Eurasia and Replaced Scythians

May 13, 2018

A very cool series of three studies were published several days ago in Science and Nature that I just have …

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Growing ‘Mini-Brains’ With Neanderthal DNA

May 12, 2018

Svante Pääbo, director of the genetics department at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany wants to …

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