The Oldest Humans, Aboriginal Australians
A genetic and cultural analysis, published in Nature, of 83 Aboriginal Australians and 25 Papuans from New Guinea suggests there was …
Category Archives: Physical Anthropology
What does our Iceman Ötzi sound like?
The team behind Ötzi the Iceman reconstructed his vocal cords using a series of CT scans. They announced the project back …
Did Lucy Fall From A Tree And Die?
Four decades after the discovery of Lucy, her remains are quite possibly the most famous discovery in paleoanthropology and one …
No, Neanderthals Didn’t Give Us Schizophrenia
Thanks to twin studies, schizophrenia is one of the few mental illnesses that we know have a genetic inheritance pattern. …
The Oldest Evidence of Cancer
In two papers published in the South African Journal of Science, researchers say they’ve found the oldest definitive evidence of malignancy in a hominid. Prior to this discovery, the oldest known hominin tumor was found in the rib of a Neanderthal dating back to around 120,000 years ago.
More Evidence To Support Neanderthals As Cannibals
Neanderthal remains from Troisième Caverne in Goyet, Belgium have cut marks that imply they were butchered and processed for consumption …
Modern Males Lack Neanderthal Y Chromosome Genes
Modern humans carry up to 4% Neanderthal DNA but a new paper reveals that the Neanderthal Y chromosome is distinct …
A Revision On The Age Of The Hobbit
Discovered in 2003 in Liang Bua cave, Homo floresiensis stood about three and a half feet tall and weighed around …
Sima de los Huesos Neanderthals Diverged 430,000 Years Ago
Published in Nature, last week, a team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology carried out extremely …
Australopithecus East of the Great Rift Valley
Late last month, an international team of paleontologists led by Emma Mbua of Mount Kenya University and Masato Nakatsukasa of …
