Sima de los Huesos Neanderthals Diverged 430,000 Years Ago
Published in Nature, last week, a team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology carried out extremely …
Tag Archives: Physical Anthropology
Australopithecus East of the Great Rift Valley
Late last month, an international team of paleontologists led by Emma Mbua of Mount Kenya University and Masato Nakatsukasa of …
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 …
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 A new unpublished study in the Journal of Human …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 …
