‘More Neanderthal than human’: How DNA from our long-lost ancestors affects our health today
Neanderthals and people interbred at a number of points in our evolutionary history. The traces of these ancient interactions stick around in our genes today. (Image credit: Kevin McGivern for…
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80,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Footprints Found in Portugal
Archaeologists have actually found 2 Neanderthals tracksites in the southwestern most area of Europe: at Monte Clérigo, dated to 78,000 years back, trackways of 3 people show how Neanderthals browsed…
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Neanderthal ‘population bottleneck’ around 110,000 years ago may have contributed to their extinction
A brand-new research study of Neanderthal ear bones exposes that they went through a population traffic jam around 110,000 years back. ( Image credit: Allan Henderson (CC BY 2.0)) Neanderthals…
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From ‘the last Neanderthal’ to sacrifices in Peru: Our biggest archaeology stories of 2024
This previous year was an amazing one for archaeology, with researchers utilizing advanced innovation to discover human beings and our close extinct loved ones. The range of tools offered to…
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Study: Neanderthal Gene Flow into Modern Humans Occurred between 50,500 and 43,500 Years Ago
In a genomic research study including more than 300 genomes, scientists figured out the time duration throughout which Neanderthals interbred with contemporary human beings, beginning about 50,500 years back and…
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