Showing posts with label Sima de los Huesos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sima de los Huesos. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 16, 2017

New DNA Analysis Allows for Greater Understanding of Modern Human Prehistory

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From Science Daily : A University of Utah-led team developed a new method for analyzing DNA sequence data to reconstruct the early history...
Thursday, March 17, 2016

Nuclear DNA From the Simo de los Huesos Fossil Material

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Nature has a paper that focuses on DNA that has been extracted from the Sima de los Huesos fossil material from the site of Atapuerca, in no...
Tuesday, June 24, 2014

New Investigations at the Sima de los Huesos Cave in Atapuerca: Kind of Neandertal and Kind of Not

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Science Daily is reporting on a new paper in Science , about the conclusions drawn from the largest single cache of human remains in one pl...
Friday, December 06, 2013

Oldest Human DNA Recovered

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Using the fossil material from the Sima de Los Huesos cave, at the Spanish site of Atapuerca, geneticists have recovered DNA.   From the Nat...
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Fossil Data and Genetic Data More Concurrent Than Thought

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It is now coming out that the “clocks” that are used to calculate mutation rates are badly calibrated. Ewen Callaway of Nature writes : G...
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Friday, June 08, 2012

Middle Pleistocene Hominin Height

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Science Daily has a story on work being done with the material from the Sima de los Huesos cave at Atapuerca. 27 complete long bones have ...
Thursday, February 24, 2011

“Oh, My Aching Back!”

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Researchers working with human fossil material between 400 and 500 thousand years ago, from the Sima de Los Huesos, have discovered a Homo h...