Our evolutionary relatives may have inherited short, deep rib cages from their ancient ancestors.
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have sequenced the genomes of five Neandertals that lived between 39,000 and 47,000 years ago. These late Neandertals are all more closely related to the Neandertals that contributed DNA to modern human ancestors than an older Neandertal from the Altai Mountains that was previously sequenced. Their genomes also provide evidence for a turnover in the Neandertal population towards the end of Neandertal history.
Previous analyses of the hominins from Sima de los Huesos in 2013 showed that their maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA was distantly related to Denisovans, extinct relatives of Neandertals in Asia. This was unexpected since their skeletal remains carry Neandertal-derived features. Researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have since worked on sequencing nuclear DNA from fossils from the cave, a challenging task as the extremely old DNA is degraded to very short fragments. The results now show that the Sima de los Huesos hominins were indeed early Neandertals. Neandertals may have acquired different mitochondrial genomes later, perhaps as the result of gene flow from Africa.
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Origin stories have provided humanity with a sense of place for eons, and science is now doing the same for modern society.
Neandertals built stalagmite circles in a French cave 176,500 years ago. These structures show that these ancient human cousins had social and technical skills.
After years of looking, geneticists are shocked to find that 1 percent to 4 percent of DNA in people from Europe and Asia is inherited from Neandertals.
Bigger eyes in Neandertals didn’t mean they had less brain.
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A multinational group of researchers has found strong genetic evidence of an interbreeding event between Neanderthals and anatomically modern Homo sapiens that occurred roughly 100,000 years ago – much earlier than scientists thought.
A cord fragment found clinging to a Neandertal’s stone tool is evidence that our close evolutionary relatives were string makers, too, scientists say.
Tübingen researchers in international team uncover grisly evidence that Neandertals butchered their own kind some 40,000 years ago. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News
Ancient humans’ close relatives also created rock art and shell ornaments, studies assert.
Sequencing the mitochondrial genome of a 400,000-year-old hominin from Spain. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News
Nuevas hipótesis sobre el final de esta especie humana señalan que su desaparición está relacionada con la mayor interconexión de los grupos de ‘sapiens’
George Church, Pioneer of Genome Research has disclosed in an interview to Der Spiegel has disclosed that Neanderthal cloning is possible and a surrogate Mother is needed. Read the interview, which…
This goes way beyond grunts.
Melanesians may carry genetic evidence of a previously unknown extinct human relative.
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To discover why Neandertals are most closely related to people outside Africa, scientists have estimated the date when Neandertals and modern Europeans last shared ancestors. The research provides a historical context for the interbreeding. It suggests that it occurred when modern humans carrying Upper Paleolithic technologies encountered Neandertals as they expanded out of Africa.
Neandertals’ skulls suggest they didn’t lead especially injury-prone lives.
