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Neanderthal child with Down syndrome lived to age 6, inner ear fossil study suggests
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Neanderthal child with Down syndrome lived to age 6, inner ear fossil study suggests

ABC  

In short: A skull fragment found in Spain may have belonged to a Neanderthal six-year-old with Down syndrome, according to the size and shape of inner ear structures in the bone. A skull fragment found in Spain may have belonged to a Neanderthal six-year-old with Down syndrome, according to the size and shape of inner ear structures in the bone. …

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How Neanderthal DNA got ‘diluted’ among Europeans finally found
1 year, 2 months ago

How Neanderthal DNA got ‘diluted’ among Europeans finally found

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 Mingling of early Europeans with some of the first farmers from …

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Scientists may have untangled a mystery of Neanderthal ancestry
1 year, 2 months ago

Scientists may have untangled a mystery of Neanderthal ancestry

CNN  

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. CNN — A new analysis of ancient genomes is deepening scientists’ understanding of the Neanderthal DNA carried by human populations in Europe and Asia — genetic traces that may have medical relevance today. “So what’s puzzling is that an area where we’ve never found any Neanderthal remains, there’s more Neanderthal DNA,” said …

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We carry DNA from extinct cousins like Neanderthals. Science is now revealing their genetic legacy
1 year, 3 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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Svante Pääbo wins Medicine Nobel for his work in analysing ancient DNA
2 years, 2 months ago

Svante Pääbo wins Medicine Nobel for his work in analysing ancient DNA

The Hindu  

Published : Oct 20, 2022 10:30 IST We are all interested in the question “where did we come from?” Different cultures and religions have different answers. Pääbo and his group produced the first Neanderthal DNA sequence in 2010, albeit with some gaps, determined from three individuals found in Vindija Cave, Croatia. In 2014, the group produced a high-quality complete DNA …

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Explained | Does palaeogenomics explain our origins?
2 years, 3 months ago

Explained | Does palaeogenomics explain our origins?

The Hindu  

The story so far: The Nobel Prize for Physiology this year has been awarded to Svante Pääbo, Swedish geneticist, who pioneered the field of palaeogenomics, or the study of ancient hominins by extracting their DNA. Pääbo pioneered the use of DNA, the genetic blueprint present in all life, to examine questions about the relatedness of various ancient human species. Pääbo’s …

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Nobel win for Swede who unlocked secrets of Neanderthal DNA
2 years, 3 months ago

Nobel win for Swede who unlocked secrets of Neanderthal DNA

Associated Press  

LEIPZIG, Germany — Swedish scientist Svante Paabo won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discoveries in human evolution that unlocked secrets of Neanderthal DNA that helped us understand what makes humans unique and provided key insights into our immune system, including our vulnerability to severe COVID-19. “Paabo and his team also surprisingly found that gene flow had occurred from …

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How Nobel winner tracked human evolution, interactions with extinct relatives
2 years, 3 months ago

How Nobel winner tracked human evolution, interactions with extinct relatives

Hindustan Times  

Since then, traces of Denisovan DNA have been identified in some populations in the Philippines and elsewhere. Pääbo and his team sequenced the DNA and found it did not match any known sequences from Neanderthals and modern humans. Neanderthals, whose first fossils were discovered in a cave in Neandertal valley in Germany in 1856, lived in Europe and Western Asia …

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How Nobel winner tracked human evolution, interactions with extinct relatives
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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Scientist who decoded Neanderthal DNA wins Nobel Prize for insights on human evolution
2 years, 3 months ago

Scientist who decoded Neanderthal DNA wins Nobel Prize for insights on human evolution

LA Times  

Swedish scientist Svante Paabo poses with a replica of a Neanderthal skeleton at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, after winning the 2022 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his discoveries on human evolution. Swedish scientist Svante Paabo won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for unlocking secrets hidden in Neanderthal DNA that helped us …

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Here's what we know sex with Neanderthals was like
4 years 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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All modern humans have Neanderthal DNA, new research finds
4 years, 11 months ago

All modern humans have Neanderthal DNA, new research finds

CNN  

CNN — We all likely have a bit of Neanderthal in our DNA – including Africans who had been thought to have no genetic link to our extinct human relative, a new study finds. “This is the first time we can detect the actual signal of Neanderthal ancestry in Africans,” said Lu Chen, a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton’s Lewis-Sigler …

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Humans with less rounded skull shape have Neanderthal genes, says study
6 years, 1 month ago

Humans with less rounded skull shape have Neanderthal genes, says study

India Today  

Certain people have slightly less rounded skull shapes that have that have inspired controversial questions such as alien genes having entered the human evolution process sometime in the ancient past. Neanderthal genes exist among us Early interbreeding between Neanderthals and the ancestors of modern Europeans have produced humans with European ancestry who carry rare fragments of Neanderthal DNA buried in …

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