Neanderthal-Human Sex Happened 100,000 Years Earlier
Previously it had been thought that the modern humans and Neanderthals first admixed about 60,000 years ago, but traces of …
Tag Archives: Physical Anthropology
Flores’ Hobbits Aren’t Homo sapiens
There have been great debates about the lineage of Homo floresiensis. A new unpublished study in the Journal of Human …
Was Neanderthal Extinction Due To Human Cultural Superiority?
A couple of new papers about Neanderthals have come out in the prior two weeks that I found particularly interesting. One …
The Role of Technology & Culture On Human Evolution
Blombos Cave is an important site discovered in the ’90’s. It is about 300 km east of Cape Town, South …
Earliest Evidence of Warfare
Researchers from the University of Cambridge Leverhulme Center for Human Evolutionary Studies have published the findings of the remains of …
Decoding The Origins Of Ötzi’s Gut Flora
In Science this week, researchers have reported they have reconstructed the entire genome of the H. pylori that lived in Ötzi’s …
Thank Your Neandertals & Denisovans For Your Allergies
Two new papers in the American Journal of Human Genetics document how we should thank archaic humans like Neandertals and Denisovans for …
Out of Africa’s Mutational Marks
There are many different processes that alter allele frequencies. The most commonly understood concept is Natural Selection. But others such …
The Complicated Genetic Lineage of Prehistoric Ireland
A study published about two days ago in theProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences documents the genomes of four prehistoric Irish …
Ancient DNA Indicates Domesticated Dogs Descended from South East Asian Wolves 33,000 Years Ago
A new study in Cell Research,suggests dogs were domesticated in Southeast Asia. The team sequenced the entire genomes of 12 gray …
