News tagged with neandertals

Diet, population size and the spread of modern humans into Europe

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Aug 11, 2009 | 4 / 5 (4) | 3

Stable isotope data published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Erik Trinkaus, professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis, and Michael Richards of the University of Bri ...

Prehistoric Cold Case Hints of Interspecies Homicide

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Jul 20, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (7) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- The wound that ultimately killed a Neandertal man between 50,000 and 75,000 years was most likely caused by a thrown spear, the kind modern humans used but Neandertals did not, according to ...

Neandertals sophisticated and fearless hunters

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May 14, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (15) | 3

Neandertals, the 'stupid' cousins of modern humans were capable of capturing the most impressive animals. This indicates that Neandertals were anything but dim. Dutch researcher Gerrit Dusseldorp analysed their daily forays ...

The Emerging Fate Of The Neandertals

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Apr 25, 2007 | 4.2 / 5 (25) | 0

For nearly a century, anthropologists have been debating the relationship of Neandertals to modern humans. Central to the debate is whether Neandertals contributed directly or indirectly to the ancestry of ...

Modern Humans, not Neandertals, may be evolutions's 'odd man out'

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Sep 08, 2006 | 3.9 / 5 (78) | 0

Could it be that in the great evolutionary "family tree," it is we Modern Humans, not the brow-ridged, large-nosed Neandertals, who are the odd uncle out?

Complete Neandertal mitochondrial genome sequenced from 38,000-year-old bone

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Aug 07, 2008 | 4.7 / 5 (23) | 6

A study reported in the August 8th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, reveals the complete mitochondrial genome of a 38,000-year-old Neandertal. The findings open a window into the Neandertals' past and he ...

Neandertals, humans share key changes to 'language gene'

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Oct 18, 2007 | 4.7 / 5 (23) | 0

A new study published online on October 18th in Current Biology reveals that adaptive changes in a human gene involved in speech and language were shared by our closest extinct relatives, the Neandertals. The finding reveal ...

More human-Neandertal mixing evidence uncovered

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Nov 09, 2006 | 4.2 / 5 (29) | 0

A re-examination of ancient human bones from Romania reveals more evidence that humans and Neandertals interbred.

How modern were European Neandertals?

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Aug 25, 2006 | 4.7 / 5 (33) | 0

Neandertals were much more like modern humans than had been previously thought, according to a re-examination of finds from one of the most famous palaeolithic sites in Europe by Bristol University archaeologist, ...

Study shows 28,000 year-old Europeans' DNA was like ours

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Jul 16, 2008 | 4.3 / 5 (8) | 0

40,000 years ago, the Cro-Magnoid people – the first people who had a skeleton that looked anatomically modern – entered Europe, coming from Africa. In the July 16 issue of the open-access journal PLoS ONE, a group of gen ...

New research confirms Indonesian 'Hobbit' was a new species

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Sep 20, 2007 | 4.8 / 5 (31) | 0

An international team of researchers led by the Smithsonian Institution has completed a new study on Homo floresiensis, commonly referred to as the “hobbit,” a 3-foot-tall, 18,000-year-old hominin skeleton, discovered four ...

Draft version of the Neanderthal genome completed

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Feb 12, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (9) | 1

In a development which could reveal the links between modern humans and their prehistoric cousins, scientists said Thursday they have mapped a first draft of the Neanderthal genome. Researchers used DNA fragments ...

40,000-year-old skull shows both modern human and Neandertal traits

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Jan 16, 2007 | 4 / 5 (24) | 0

Humans continued to evolve significantly long after they were established in Europe, and interbred with Neandertals as they settled across the continent, according to new research published this week in the ...

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