In 1908, a group of Catholic priests discovered what looked like the skeletal remains of a man buried inside a cave in La Chapelle-aux-Saints, a commune in south-central France. The nearly complete ...
DNA mapping has revealed a closer connection to our evolutionary relatives. By Michael Barbaro, Luke Vander Ploeg, Alex Barron, Tina Antolini, Franz Lidz, Carl Zimmer, Wendy Dorr, Efim Shapiro and ...
Scientists studying ancient disease have uncovered one of the earliest examples of spillover -- when a disease jumps from an animal to a human -- and it happened to a Neanderthal man who likely got ...
The so-called "Viking disease" causes the fingers of many aging northern European men to lock up in a bent position, and researchers now think they know why. Genetic variants inherited from ...
In 2010 researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (EVA), in Leipzig, published the genome of Homo neanderthalensis, a species known in less progressive days as Neanderthal ...
Neanderthal ex machina -- Mummies and molecules -- Amplifying the past -- Dinosaurs in the lab -- Human frustrations -- A Croatian connection -- A new home -- Multiregional controversies -- Nuclear ...
A complex picture of how Neanderthals died out, and the role that modern humans played in their disappearance, is emerging.
The French paleoanthropologist discusses his book ‘The Last Neanderthal,’ and provides clues about his latest discovery: ...
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