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Neanderthals and humans mated more recently than we thought! Ancient species interbred with our ancestors within the past 50,000 years, study finds - rewriting the story of our evolution

After humans first migrated out of Africa about 60,000 years ago, we started having sex with Neanderthals – a now extinct archaic but closely-related species. She may have been among some of the first Homo sapiens to have mated with Neanderthals Key events in Neanderthal and human history 300,000 years ago - Homo sapiens emerge in Africa 60,000 to 70,000 …

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Oldest human DNA helps pinpoint when early humans interbred with Neanderthals

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Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Martin Schutt/picture alliance/Getty Images A broader study on Neanderthal ancestry, published Thursday in the journal Science, that analyzed information from the genomes of 59 ancient humans and those of 275 living humans corroborated the more precise timeline, finding that the majority of Neanderthal ancestry in modern humans can be attributed to a …

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Breakthrough studies unveil traits of early Europeans and narrow timeline of breeding with Neanderthals

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Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Two new studies have helped narrow down the time during which …

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Pinning down the details of how and when Neanderthals and homo sapiens interbred

NPR

Pinning down the details of how and when Neanderthals and homo sapiens interbred Tens of thousands of years ago, modern humans mated with Neanderthals. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Look at the DNA of most people living outside of Africa today, and you'll see that tens of thousands of years ago, early modern humans mated with Neanderthals and had babies. DANIEL: Sumer …

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Their DNA survives in diverse populations across the world – but who were the Denisovans?

Raw Story

It started with a finger bone found in a cave in the Altai mountains in Siberia in the late 2000s. Modern humans later evolved in Africa, spread across the globe, and encountered Neanderthals, Denisovans and possibly other unknown archaic human groups. These immune-related genes might have played crucial roles in protecting ancient and modern humans from south and east Asia, …

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Genetic analysis of Neanderthal named for Tolkien character reveals history of inbreeding

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Sharing the name of a legendary dwarf in J. R. R. Tolkien's classic fantasy novel "The Hobbit," a Neanderthal now known as Thorin wandered the Earth up to 42,000 years ago. This means Thorin's genome was full of the variants one usually sees with recent inbreeding, a striking feature given other modern humans lived nearby with whom Thorin's Neanderthal community …

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Scientists’ discovery rewrites history of early humans in Europe

The Independent

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Modern humans ventured into northern Europe under extremely cold climate conditions …

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Are you a morning person or a night owl? The Study While the human body clock is a complex trait shaped by social and cultural norms as well as genetics, Neanderthals, who evolved in higher latitudes in Europe and Asia for hundreds of thousands of years, may have been better adapted to seasonal variations in daylight than early Homo sapiens, …

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Researchers: Inbreeding a big problem for endangered orcas

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. While that news sounds grim for the revered orcas …

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Humans and neanderthals ‘lived together for thousands of years’ study says

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For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The paper also suggests that humans may have lived …

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2 years, 3 months ago

How Nobel winner tracked human evolution, interactions with extinct relatives

Hindustan Times

What makes human beings human? Over decades of research, he sequenced the genome of Neanderthals to establish that they interbred with humans, identified the mysterious Denosivans as a species distinct from both modern humans and Neanderthals, and pioneered of the science of analysing genetic information from extinct species, known today as palaeogenomics. The three species Neanderthals, whose first fossils were …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Israeli Scientists Discover New Kind of Early Humans 'Nesher Ramla Homo' Dating Back 130,000 Years

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Scientists say they have discovered a new kind of early human after studying pieces of fossilized bone dug up at a site used by a cement plant in central Israel. “The discovery of a new type of Homo is of great scientific importance,” said Israel Hershkovitz of Tel Aviv University, one of the leaders of the team that analyzed the …

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3 years, 6 months ago

This New Method will Reveal What Genes We Inherited from Neanderthals and Archaic Humans

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Scientists at the University of Copenhagen have developed a new method that will help in searching human genetic information for beneficial mutations from Neanderthals, Denisovans and other archaic humans. As modern humans spread across the planet, beneficial genetic information, upon interaction with the environmental conditions, manifested in many mutations. Using the method, scientists not only confirmed the previous discoveries but …

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3 years, 10 months ago

Did you survive Covid? Maybe you can thank your Neanderthal ancestors

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CNN — People who survive a bout of Covid-19 with mild symptoms or even no symptoms may be able to thank their Neanderthal ancestors, a new study suggests. “We show that a haplotype on chromosome 12, which is associated with about a 22% reduction in relative risk of becoming severely ill with COVID-19 when infected by SARS-CoV-2, is inherited from …

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3 years, 11 months ago

Here's what we know sex with Neanderthals was like

BBC

Here's what we know sex with Neanderthals was like RM Flavio Massari/Alamy One thing the archaeological record cannot tell us is if Neanderthals and early modern humans were physically attracted to one another Scientists know a surprising amount about the titillating episode in human history when our species got together, including whether we kissed and the nature of their sexual …

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4 years, 5 months ago

Neanderthals weren't as tough as they seemed and had a LOWER pain threshold than most humans today

Daily Mail

Neanderthals went extinct around 40,000 years ago but have a reputation as being hulking, brutish beings who were tough and fearless. But a new study has found this belief to be at least partly incorrect, as Neanderthals likely had a pain threshold lower than the majority of modern-day humans. But a study has found they likely had a pain threshold …

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4 years, 10 months ago

Researchers find genes of mysterious human species that interbred with Africans thousands of years ago

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Not much is known about this ghost population other than they seemed to diverge from the evolutionary line around 650,000 years ago. Scientists examining the genomes of West Africans have detected signs that a mysterious extinct human species interbred with our own species tens of thousands of years ago in Africa, the latest evidence of humankind’s complicated genetic ancestry. The …

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4 years, 10 months ago

Scientists explain link between extinct ghost population and modern humans

India Today

A study has found a genetic connection to extinct relative of humans in modern West African populations. The ghost population interbred with our own species species tens of thousands of years ago in Africa, the latest evidence of humankind's complicated genetic ancestry. The researchers said that the ghost population was of ancient humans who lived in West Africa around five …

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5 years, 1 month ago

Our ancestors learnt to smile so that they could have sex, says study

India TV News

Believe it or not but our forefathers were way smarter than us when it came to wooing the opposite sex for mating. Researchers from the University of Milan focused on genetic samples from Neanderthals, which showed that gene mutations might have led humans to "self-select less aggressive mating partners". The study suggests that modern humans domesticated themselves after they split …

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5 years, 8 months ago

Jawbone of ancient human ancestor is found 11,000 feet up in the Himalayas

Daily Mail

Archaeologists have discovered Denisovans, the ancient human ancestor, lived on the oxygen-starved Tibetan Plateau 11,000 feet above sea level 160,000 years ago. The Denisovan jawbone was originally discovered in 1980 by a local monk who donated it to the sixth Gung-Thang Living Buddha, a Buddhist Lama, or teacher, who passed it to Lanzhou University for the research Traces of Denisovan …

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Now there's ANOTHER ancient hominin species!

Daily Mail

Another branch has been added to the complex story of human evolution as scientists claim to have discovered an entirely new archaic hominin species. Researchers now claim there may have been two completely separate types of Denisovans that lived in different parts of the world 'We used to think it was just us - modern humans - and Neanderthals,' says …

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Neanderthals and humans mated more recently than we thought! Ancient species interbred with our ancestors within the past 50,000 years, study finds - rewriting the story of our evolution

Oldest human DNA helps pinpoint when early humans interbred with Neanderthals

Breakthrough studies unveil traits of early Europeans and narrow timeline of breeding with Neanderthals

Pinning down the details of how and when Neanderthals and homo sapiens interbred

Their DNA survives in diverse populations across the world – but who were the Denisovans?

Genetic analysis of Neanderthal named for Tolkien character reveals history of inbreeding

Scientists’ discovery rewrites history of early humans in Europe

Early Risers

Researchers: Inbreeding a big problem for endangered orcas

Humans and neanderthals ‘lived together for thousands of years’ study says

How Nobel winner tracked human evolution, interactions with extinct relatives

Israeli Scientists Discover New Kind of Early Humans 'Nesher Ramla Homo' Dating Back 130,000 Years

This New Method will Reveal What Genes We Inherited from Neanderthals and Archaic Humans

Did you survive Covid? Maybe you can thank your Neanderthal ancestors

Here's what we know sex with Neanderthals was like

Neanderthals weren't as tough as they seemed and had a LOWER pain threshold than most humans today

Researchers find genes of mysterious human species that interbred with Africans thousands of years ago

Scientists explain link between extinct ghost population and modern humans

Our ancestors learnt to smile so that they could have sex, says study

Jawbone of ancient human ancestor is found 11,000 feet up in the Himalayas

Now there's ANOTHER ancient hominin species!