Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Get Ready for More Proto-Humans

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Today at Discovery News you can read about the earliest recognized species of Homo, the first known member of our genus. This latest additio...
Friday, May 21, 2010

Derbyshire Iron Age bones were of pregnant woman

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Tests carried out on a skeleton discovered at an archaeological dig in Derbyshire have found it was that of a pregnant woman. Experts said t...

Cyprus: crews stumble on 2-millennia-old coffins

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NICOSIA, Cyprus – Work crews in Cyprus have accidentally unearthed four rare clay coffins estimated to be some 2,000 years old, the country...
Thursday, May 13, 2010

Welcome to the family, Homo sapiens neanderthalensis

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WE HUMANS like to see ourselves as special, at the very pinnacle of all life. That makes us keen to keep a safe distance between ourselves a...

Neanderthals not the only apes humans bred with

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A LONG-awaited rough draft of the Neanderthal genome has revealed that our own DNA contains clear evidence that early humans interbred with ...

Ancient DNA set to rewrite human history

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Discovery that some humans are part-Neanderthal reveals the promise of comparing genomes old and new. The worlds of ancient and modern DNA e...
Wednesday, May 12, 2010

This Is Your Brain On Neanderthal

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Last week, geneticists dumped on us the somewhat disturbing fact that most of us have some Neanderthals in our family tree. Not a lot of the...
Tuesday, May 11, 2010

So we're part Neanderthal. What now?

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So now we know: Many, if not most, people alive today have some Neanderthal ancestry. This finding, which comes from analysis of the Neander...

To mate, or not to mate: The Neanderthal question

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There are moments in science when spectacular new evidence stops us in our tracks and makes us think and rethink. But it is best to wait and...
Sunday, May 9, 2010

Some Neanderthal DNA Passed To Humans Say Genome Researchers

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By analyzing DNA they extracted from three Neanderthal bones over 40,000 years old discovered in a cave in Croatia, scientists from Europe a...
Saturday, May 8, 2010

Crete fortifications debunk myth of peaceful Minoan society

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A team of archaeologists have discovered a fortification system at the Minoan town of Gournia, a discovery which rebukes the popular myth th...

Neandertal genome yields evidence of interbreeding with humans

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Some people don’t just have a caveman mentality; they may actually carry a little relic of the Stone Age in their DNA. A new study of the Ne...

Neanderthal genes 'survive in us'

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Many people alive today possess some Neanderthal ancestry, according to a landmark scientific study. The finding has surprised many experts,...

Il y a du Neandertal en nous

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Il y a du Neandertal en nous. Du moins si nous sommes "non africains". Dans ce cas, 1 % à 4 % de notre matériel génétique a pour o...

Der Neandertaler in uns

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Die Analyse des Neandertaler-Genoms ergibt: Menschen und Neandertaler haben sich doch vermischt Erstmals liegt eine Version der Genomsequenz...
Friday, May 7, 2010

No scientists had to die for this paradigm shift!

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In Science Ann Gibbons has a very long reported piece, Close Encounters of the Prehistoric Kind. It’s well worth reading, but behind a pay w...

Neanderthals live on in DNA of humans

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The first comparison of the complete genomes of humans and Neanderthals reveals that up to 4% of our DNA is Neanderthal There is a little Ne...

Neanderthal gene found in human DNA of people living out of Africa

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They have been extinct for 30,000 years, but a small part of the Neanderthals lives on in the DNA of every person with ancestors outside Afr...

Humans interbred with Neanderthals: genome analysis

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Modern humans most likely interbred with Neanderthals, according to landmark genome analysis that shed light on how we evolved differently f...

Evidence Suggests Early Humans Mated with Neanderthals

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Researchers in Leipzig have successfully sequenced the genetic code of a Neanderthal, and found some overlap with modern-day Europeans. The ...