The Presence of the Frontal Opercula in Homo naledi
When it comes to the evolution of the human brain, size isn’t everything. In fact, shape is a huge determinant. …
Tag Archives: Physical Anthropology
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 …
Al Wusta Phalanxes Document Humans Travel East of Africa Earlier
Earlier this year we learned about the Misliya maxilla which pushed our understanding of out of Africa by 50,000 years. …
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 …
Denisovans & Modern Humans Introgressed At Least Twice
Sharon Browning and colleagues published a paper in Cell last week that shows there are uniquely different Denisovan genomes in …
The Hidden Life of Neolithic Women Seen Via Their Humeri
In this week’s journal Science Advances, University of Cambridge researchers compared the bones of women. Their sample included Central European …
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 …
A Lost Baby Molar Is Currently Our Fourth and Oldest Known Denisovan Individual
A paper published this past Friday in the journal Science Advances, shared the reports from a team of paleoanthropologists who …
A Deeper Introgression Of Ancient Humans and Neanderthals
New ancient DNA discoveries from an ancient 124,000-year-old Neanderthal femur suggests modern human ancestors interbred with Neanderthals between 470,000 and …
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 …
