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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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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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2 weeks, 2 days ago

China discovers landmark human evolution fossils

China Daily

HEFEI -- Chinese scientists have discovered dozens of human fossils dating back 300,000 years, which are the earliest ones found in East Asia in terms of the evolution process towards Homo sapiens, the species to which all modern human beings belong. A total of 11 human fossils were unearthed, including one well-preserved foot metatarsal bone, one broken frontal bone, one …

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1.5 million-years-old footprints reveal unknown secret about human species

India Today

A new study has unveiled fossilised footprints from two ancient human species, Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei, that coexisted in northern Kenya approximately 1.5 million years ago. Discovered at the Koobi Fora site near Lake Turkana, these footprints provide the first physical evidence that these distinct species shared the same landscape, raising intriguing questions about their interactions and potential competition …

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3 weeks, 4 days ago

Crossing evolutionary paths: New research finds different hominin species coexisted

Salon

The bones they found in the sand were a clue that something more was buried beneath the surface. But these remarkably preserved footprints were the first to indicate that two different species of hominins — including Homo erectus, which is a direct ancestor to humans, and Paranthropus boisei, which was a different species that also descended from the ape ancestor …

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3 weeks, 5 days ago

Discovery of fossilized footprints reveals the moment two ancient human species crossed paths

CNN

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. “It’s surprising that you would have two kinds of similarly sized, large-bodied hominin species on the same landscape,” said Kevin Hatala, first author of a study on the footprints that published in the journal Science on Thursday. Briana Pobiner, a research scientist and museum educator at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Why the Humble Tomato Can Be the Next Superfood Because of its Cancer-Fighting Magic Molecule

The Hindu

Published : Nov 15, 2024 10:00 IST - 5 MINS READ I am changing our taxonomy. “That first berry had a top note of wild green, followed by what my brain called “garden smell”—mud, crushed grass, flowers.” Mr Matthews glances at the berry and is about to speak—when he bites back the word on the tip of his tongue. That …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Interview|'Bells are ringing for the generation of homo plasticus': Microplastics expert Sedat Gündoğdu

New Indian Express

Microplastics have garnered global attention as a growing environmental and health concern in recent years. While the majority of discussions have focused on their presence in air, water, and food, new studies suggest that these tiny plastic particles are infiltrating critical human organs, such as the brain, lungs, and even the placenta. To understand the severity of the situation, The …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Smallest adult human arm bone fossil so far discovered points to origins of 'hobbit'

ABC

A 700,000-year-old fragment of arm bone has shed light on the origins of the early human species known as the "hobbit". Now the discovery of a partial upper arm bone, the smallest adult human arm bone in the fossil record so far, and two more teeth at Mata Menge has revealed that this H. floresiensis individual was only around 100cm …

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7 months, 1 week ago

The mystery over why human brains have shrunk over time

BBC

The mystery over why human brains have shrunk over time Getty Images/BBC The brains of modern humans are around 13% smaller than those of Homo sapiens who lived 100,000 years ago.Exactly why is still puzzling researchers. As smaller and better organised brains were able to perform more complex computations, metabolically expensive larger brains simply became unnecessary "This was the time …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Spain’s Prado Museum confirms rediscovery of lost Caravaggio. Painting will be unveiled May 27

Associated Press

MADRID — A painting whose auction in Spain was halted in 2021 on suspicion that it might be a Caravaggio has been confirmed as a work by the Italian Baroque master, Spain’s Prado Museum announced Monday. The Prado said in a statement the work titled “Ecce Homo” by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio will go on display from May 27 until …

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8 months ago

Jawdropping discovery: Remains of extinct human species that died thousands of years ago found in kitchen floor tiles

Daily Mail

A dentist caught a huge surprise when he visited his parents' house and spotted a familiar bit of anatomy embedded into the corridor of their newly renovated home. Reddit is rife with fake posts, but multiple experts confirmed to DailyMail.com that this really does appear to be a jawbone, and that it probably belonged to either a modern human or, …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

Researchers finally reveal where the first humans went after leaving Africa

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. “Our results provide the first full picture of the whereabouts of the ancestors of all …

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

Opinion: This California millionaire is peddling eternal life. Why do people believe him?

LA Times

Bryan Johnson addresses followers before leading them on a hike Jan. 13 at Temescal Canyon in Pacific Palisades. “For the first time in the history of Homo sapiens, it’s possible to say with a straight face that death may no longer be inevitable,” he told me on the hike. He calls himself a “ genetically enhanced human,” having undergone $25,000-a-dose …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Scientists use pollen data to decode first human migration into Eurasia

Hindustan Times

Pollen grains analysis helps understand how the first humans migrated from Africa across Europe and Asia, research in Science Advances says. The pollen data showed that warming temperatures supported forests that expanded into Siberia and facilitated early human migration there, researchers from the University of Kansas, US, said in their study. "This research addresses long-standing debates regarding the environmental conditions …

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1 year, 2 months ago

We carry DNA from extinct cousins like Neanderthals. Science is now revealing their genetic legacy

Associated Press

Neanderthals live on within us. “The result today is, for some people, that our immune systems are oversensitive, and sometimes they turn on themselves.” Similarly, a gene associated with blood clotting believed to be passed down from Neanderthals in Eurasia may have been helpful in the “rough and tumble world of the Pleistocene,” said Rick Potts, director of the human …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Science paints a new picture of the ancient past, when we mixed and mated with other kinds of humans

Associated Press

What does it mean to be human? “A different way to be human.” What’s more, humans had close — even intimate — interactions with some of these other groups, including Neanderthals, Denisovans and “ghost populations” we only know from DNA. Archaeologist John Shea of New York’s Stony Brook University said he used to think of Neanderthals and H. sapiens as …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Livings with lizards and insects

The Hindu

First came physics, then chemistry and finally biology. Life evolved ever so slowly, first in the oceans and later on the surface of earth, till about 2.5 million years ago when the genus Homo came into the picture in Africa. However, as the term suggests, the “wise humans”, on their way to self-assumed stardom, exterminated many organisms, including several of …

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1 year, 6 months ago

World's oldest-known burial site found in South Africa

The Hindu

Palaeontologists in South Africa said Monday they have found the oldest known burial site in the world, containing remains of a small-brained distant relative of humans previously thought incapable of complex behaviour. Led by renowned palaeoanthropologist Lee Berger, researchers said they discovered several specimens of Homo naledi -- a tree-climbing, Stone Age hominid -- buried about 30 metres underground in …

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1 year, 6 months ago

The Science Quiz | Muscles of the human body

The Hindu

The Science Quiz appears twice a week in the daily science page. X is a muscle in the body that functions non-stop right through one’s life. This is the largest muscle in the body and was crucial in helping Homo erectus, and now Homo sapiens, stay erect by keeping the trunk of the body upright. Visual: The _______ muscle forms …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Genome data sheds light on how Homo sapiens arose in Africa

The Hindu

Our species arose in Africa more than 300,000 years ago, with the oldest-known Homo sapiens fossils discovered at a site in Morocco called Jebel Irhoud, located between Marrakech and the Atlantic coast. But the scarcity of Homo sapiens fossils from early in our evolutionary history and the geographical spread of those remains in Africa in places like Ethiopia and South …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Genetics study lays bare Ice Age drama for humans in Europe

The Hindu

Europe was no balmy paradise during the Ice Age, with the vast glaciers that blanketed large parts of the continent rendering wide swathes inhospitable for humans. That region was repopulated around 19,000 years ago by hunter-gatherers from the Balkans, who subsequently expanded throughout Europe and by around 14,500 years ago had replaced everyone who had lived there, the researchers found. …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Homo sapiens in Europe hunted with bow-and-arrow 54,000 years ago

Firstpost

Washington: A cave in southern France has revealed evidence of the first use of bows and arrows in Europe by modern humans some 54,000 years ago, far earlier than previously known. The researchers who conducted the latest study have documented previously that Neanderthals and their modern “cousins” – Homo sapiens – alternated in inhabiting the Mandrin cave. A level known …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Neanderthals cooked meals with pulses 70,000 years ago

CNN

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Plant material found at the Shanidar Cave in northern Iraq — which is famous for its burial of a Neanderthal surrounded by flowers — and Franchthi Cave in Greece revealed prehistoric cooking by Neanderthals and early modern humans was complex, involving several steps, and that the foods used were diverse, according to …

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Oldest human DNA helps pinpoint when early humans interbred with Neanderthals

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

China discovers landmark human evolution fossils

1.5 million-years-old footprints reveal unknown secret about human species

Crossing evolutionary paths: New research finds different hominin species coexisted

Discovery of fossilized footprints reveals the moment two ancient human species crossed paths

Why the Humble Tomato Can Be the Next Superfood Because of its Cancer-Fighting Magic Molecule

Interview|'Bells are ringing for the generation of homo plasticus': Microplastics expert Sedat Gündoğdu

Smallest adult human arm bone fossil so far discovered points to origins of 'hobbit'

The mystery over why human brains have shrunk over time

Spain’s Prado Museum confirms rediscovery of lost Caravaggio. Painting will be unveiled May 27

Jawdropping discovery: Remains of extinct human species that died thousands of years ago found in kitchen floor tiles

Researchers finally reveal where the first humans went after leaving Africa

Opinion: This California millionaire is peddling eternal life. Why do people believe him?

Scientists use pollen data to decode first human migration into Eurasia

We carry DNA from extinct cousins like Neanderthals. Science is now revealing their genetic legacy

Science paints a new picture of the ancient past, when we mixed and mated with other kinds of humans

Livings with lizards and insects

World's oldest-known burial site found in South Africa

The Science Quiz | Muscles of the human body

Genome data sheds light on how Homo sapiens arose in Africa

Genetics study lays bare Ice Age drama for humans in Europe

Homo sapiens in Europe hunted with bow-and-arrow 54,000 years ago

Neanderthals cooked meals with pulses 70,000 years ago