More time for modern humans to have mingled with Neanderthals
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View ArticleHuman evolution links
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View ArticleFurther back in the Eurasian human story
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View ArticleEveryone now has their Inner Neanderthal
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View ArticleThe last known Homo erectus
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View ArticleEarly human migrations in southern Africa
Botswana’s Okavango Delta today during the wet season (Credit: Wikimedia Commons) A new paper in Nature uses mitochondrial DNA, specifically from the KhoeSan people of southern Africa, to suggest that...
View ArticleTracing hominin evolution further back
Bones from 4 Danuvius guggenmosi individuals. Note the diminutive sizes compared with living apes (Credit: Christoph Jäckle) Remains of a Miocene ape from Bavaria reveal clear signs that it was bipedal...
View ArticleLife with the Neanderthals
Hundred of 80 thousand-years old footprints – which could only have been made by Neanderthals, have been found in a dune sand depost at Le Rozel on the Cherbourg Peninsula in Normandy, France. Their...
View ArticleAustralopithecus anamensis; a face to fit the name
Learn at Earth-logs how the story of hominin evolution has changed significantly after the discovery in Ethiopia of a stunning new australopithecine fossil. Advertisements
View ArticleSymbolic art made by Denisovans (?)
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View ArticleHumans gorged on giant mole rats during Ethiopian glaciation
Read at Earth-logs about how Middle Stone Age humans survived 40 thousand years ago in a high-elevation glacial environment in Ethiopia by roasting giant mole rats. Advertisements
View ArticleOut of Africa: The earliest modern human to leave
The 2017 discovery in Morocco of fossilised, anatomically modern humans (AMH) dated at 286 ka (see: Origin of anatomically modern humans, June 2017) pushed back the origin of our species by at least...
View ArticleAncient proteins: keys to early human evolution?
A jawbone discovered in a Tibetan cave turned out to be that of a Denisovan who had lived and died there about 160,000 years ago (see: Denisovan on top of the world; 6 May, 2019). That discovery owed...
View ArticleMultiple invention of stone tools
Steadily, the record of stone tools has progressed further back in time as archaeological surveys have expanded, especially in East Africa (Stone tools go even further back, May 2015). The earliest...
View ArticleNeanderthal demographics and their extinction
Note: Earth-Pages will be closing as of early July, but will continue in another form at Earth-logs About 39 thousand years ago all sign of the presence of Neanderthal bands in their extensive range...
View ArticleDenisovan on top of the world
Who the Denisovans were is almost completely bound up with their DNA. Until 2019 their only tangible remains were from a single Siberian cave and amounted to a finger bone, a toe bone three molars and...
View Article‘Hobbits’ found in the Philippines
The earliest signs that hominins had colonised the island of Luzon in the Philippines took the form of crude stone tools found around half a century ago. Re-excavation of one of the sites uncovered yet...
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A stratigraphic timeline for the Denisova Cave
Denisova Cave was named to commemorate an 18th century hermit called Denis, who used it as his refuge. The culmination of more than four decades of excavation, which followed the discovery there of...
View ArticleEarly stone tools spread more widely
The rift systems of Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania, and the limestone caverns near Johannesburg, South Africa have a long history of intensive archaeological study, rewarded by many finds of hominin...
View ArticleThe earliest humans in Tibet
Modern Tibetans thrive in the rarefied air at altitudes above 4 km partly because they benefit from a genetic mutation of the gene EPAS1, which regulates haemoglobin production. Surprisingly, the...
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