Homo naledi May Have Made Tools, Buried Dead, Lived Alongside Humans
A couple weeks ago, I introduced that H. naledi may be much younger than we thought it was. Razib’s recent post points out three new …
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Homo naledi Could Be Much Younger Than Previous Thought
Homo naledi, the mosaic of archaic and modern human, whose discovery two years ago was published in the journal Elife was touted to …
The Hobbit: A Homo habilis Lineage?
When the 3 and 1/2 foot Homo floresiensis was discovered and the age of the new species correlated with the …
A New 400,000 Year Old Portuguese Skull May Be An Early Neanderthal Relative
A 400,000 (390-436 ka) year old Portuguese partial skull was discovered in ’14 from Gruta da Aroeira cave. The paper …
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 …
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.
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 …
