Showing posts with label Neandertals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Neandertals. Show all posts
Saturday, August 08, 2020

Another Mystery Ancestor Joins The Group

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Science Daily has a story on genetic work done by researchers at Cornell University and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory that suggests that th...
Sunday, March 01, 2020

Neandertal/Denisovan Ancestors Interbred With Unknown Hominin

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As if the tangle of early archaic Homo sapiens relationships couldn't get any more confusing, evidence has now surfaced that the ancest...
Thursday, February 06, 2020

BBC: How Did the Last Neanderthals Live

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The BBC has a post on some archaeological discoveries that have illuminated how the Neandertals lived.  Melissa Hogenboom writes: For the...
Wednesday, August 21, 2019

More Information About the Denisovans

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Discover Magazine has an article on new finds at Denisova and their context in early modern human evolution.  Bridget Alex writes : Nestle...
Saturday, July 27, 2019

Chris Stringer: Meet the Relatives

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Chris Stringer has a post in the Financial Times titled Meet the Relatives .  It is sort of a whirlwind tour through the evolution of the ge...
Sunday, June 30, 2019

Neandertals Occupying Open-Air Site in Israel

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There is evidence of Neandertal occupation at an open-air site in northern Israel called Ein Qashish.  From the researchers: Whereas many ...
Saturday, June 29, 2019

The Ancient History of Neanderthals in Europe

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The Max Planck Society has a post in PhysOrg, a highly-regarded science site, on the history of Neandertals (they have used the old spellin...
Tuesday, May 07, 2019

Large Denisovan Fossil Discovered

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Nature News is reporting on a jaw fragment that has been discovered on the Tibetan Plateau that is close to 160,000 years old. From the stor...
Tuesday, April 16, 2019

On the Heels of the Discovery of Homo luzonensis...

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A new study from the journal Cell suggests that there were multiple migrations of individuals into Southeast Asia with the Denisovan genome....
Thursday, March 07, 2019

More Information From Denisova

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Nature News is reporting about some more evidence from Denisova, following up on the bombshell news last year that bones discovered there b...
Monday, March 04, 2019

Neandertals Had Same Gait as Modern Humans

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A virtual reconstruction of the skeleton of the La Chapelle Neandertal has revealed that Neandertals had exactly the same bipedal pattern t...
Friday, January 18, 2019

'Swiss Army knife of prehistoric tools' Found in China

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Science Daily is on a roll.  This came out a bit back during the late semester crunch and I didn't get a chance to post about it.  Stone...
Thursday, January 17, 2019

New Data on Neandertal Anatomy

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Anatomists have reconstructed the rib cage of the Kebara 2 Neandertal to get a better understanding of the trunk of our nearest relatives.  ...
Monday, October 15, 2018

Neandertal Teeth 450Ky Old Found in Italy

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The Smithsonian is reporting that excavations in Italy have uncovered teeth dated to 450 thousand years ago that have Neandertal character...
Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Neandertal/Denisovan Hybrid?

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As J. Lawrence Angel once said: “When two groups of people meet, they may fight, but they will always mate.”  A story is now coming out of R...
Tuesday, April 10, 2018

New Homo sapiens Fossil Found in Arabia

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A new fossil finger has been unearthed as Arabia that purports to be 87 ky old.  UPI is on it . The fossil was found buried beneath the sa...
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Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Modern Humans Interbred with Two Groups of Denisovans

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There is now more evidence that were were “ one big happy family .”  Here is a short recap: Beginning around 1.8 million years ago, a homi...
Friday, February 02, 2018

Indian Site of Attirampakkam Pushes Middle Palaeolithic of India Back to 385 Kya

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Great Googlymoogly!  Fresh on the heels of the discovery of the Misliya site (upcoming BioLogos post) that the Middle Palaeolithic Levalloi...
Saturday, December 16, 2017

Modern Humans Came Out of Africa Earlier Than Thought and Did So Multiple Times

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If you have been studying human evolution, this story is not new.We have suspected for some time that humans migrated out of Africa in waves...
Friday, November 24, 2017

New Jebel Irhoud Date Causes Rethink of Chinese Dali Skull

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Newsweek (Yes, that Newsweek) has a story on the reexamination of the Chinese Dali cranium, in light of the revised dates for the Jebel Irho...