Growing ‘Mini-Brains’ With Neanderthal DNA
Svante Pääbo, director of the genetics department at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany wants to …
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Five Neanderthal Genomes Tell Us More Than Ever
We’ve been quite limited by our ancient DNA of Neanderthals due to limited sample size from the fossil record and …
World’s Oldest Cave Art Made By Neanderthals
In two new studies, published yesterday in Science and Science Advances, researchers Alistair Pike, an archaeologist at the University of Southampton, João Zilhão, …
Richard Coss Argues Neanderthals Didn’t Make Art Because They Were Inferior Hunters
In an article recently published in the journal Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, Richard Coss, a professor emeritus of psychology, …
Neanderthals Wielded Fire to Make Digging Sticks 170,000 Years Ago In Italy
PNAS published a new paper documenting Neanderthals wielded fire to shape wooden tools as early as 171,000 years ago. The …
The Complexity of the Peopling of the Eurasia
Science has published a new paper today looking at the peopling of Eurasia. The results of the paper challenge the …
Adam Rutherford’s A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
If you have been following this blog along with others, like GNXP, you can tell that the field of ancient …
Neanderthal Introgression Gave Us Back Even More Ancient DNA
Tony Capra of Vanderbilt University in Nashville hypothesized last week at the annual meeting of The American Society of Human …
Neanderthal Got By With a Little Help from Friends
Shanidar 1 is a 50,000 years Neandertal which was discovered in by Ralph Solecki in 1957 during excavations at Shanidar …
Vindija 33.19’s Genome Shows We Are More Neanderthal Than We Thought
Two new, fascinating papers on Neanderthal genetic introgression and the sequencing of an entire Neanderthal’s genome came out this last …
