The genomic journey of modern and archaic humans may be older than we thought
Research conducted at the Department of Biology, University of Padova, has identified critical genomic milestones in the ...
Genomes reveal timing of Homo sapiens interbreeding with Neanderthals
Neanderthals went extinct roughly 39,000 years ago, but in some sense these close cousins of our species are not gone. Their ...
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10 fascinating discoveries about Neanderthals in 2024, from 'Thorin' the last Neanderthal to an ancient glue factory
This year, we learned that our Neanderthal cousins were a lot like us, despite treading their own path that ended in ...
New Fossil Discovery Suggests Humans Actually Didn't Originate in Africa
For decades, common scientific knowledge has held that homo sapiens—human beings as we know them today—evolved in Africa some ...
Oldest human DNA reveals lost branch of the human family tree
Human DNA recovered from remains found in Europe is revealing our species’ shared history with Neanderthals. The trove is the ...
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Genomes reveal timing of Homo sapiens interbreeding with Neanderthals
Their legacy lives on in the genomes of most people on Earth, thanks to interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. New research is providing the most precise estimate to date of when ...
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Humans and Neanderthals met often, but only one event matters
Homo sapiens began in Africa but Neanderthals were Eurasian. Any miscegenation would have happened after sapiens left its ...
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Neanderthals and Homo sapiens interbred within the past 50,000 years
New research reveals that Neanderthal genes entered our own DNA within the past 50,000 years, rewriting the story of how Homo sapiens spread across the world. The Homo sapiens fossils found beneath ...