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Homo naledi May Have Made Tools, Buried Dead, Lived Alongside Humans

May 9, 2017

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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The Hobbit: A Homo habilis Lineage?

April 23, 2017

When the 3 and 1/2 foot Homo floresiensis was discovered and the age of the new species correlated with the …

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The Oldest Humans, Aboriginal Australians

September 23, 2016

A genetic and cultural analysis, published in Nature, of 83 Aboriginal Australians and 25 Papuans from New Guinea suggests there was …

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What does our Iceman Ötzi sound like?

September 23, 2016

The team behind Ötzi the Iceman reconstructed his vocal cords using a series of CT scans. They announced the project back …

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Did Lucy Fall From A Tree And Die?

September 6, 2016

Four decades after the discovery of Lucy, her remains are quite possibly the most famous discovery in paleoanthropology and one …

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No, Neanderthals Didn’t Give Us Schizophrenia

August 18, 2016

Thanks to twin studies, schizophrenia is one of the few mental illnesses that we know have a genetic inheritance pattern. …

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The Oldest Evidence of Cancer

July 31, 2016

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.

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More Evidence To Support Neanderthals As Cannibals

July 12, 2016

Neanderthal remains from Troisième Caverne in Goyet, Belgium have cut marks that imply they were butchered and processed for consumption …

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Modern Males Lack Neanderthal Y Chromosome Genes

April 9, 2016

Modern humans carry up to 4% Neanderthal DNA but a new paper reveals that the Neanderthal Y chromosome is distinct …

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A Revision On The Age Of The Hobbit

April 4, 2016

Discovered in 2003 in Liang Bua cave, Homo floresiensis stood about three and a half feet tall and weighed around …

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