Biological Anthropology

Team publishes study of the brain of the Homo erectus fossil with the lowest cranial capacity

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The paleoneurologist Emiliano Bruner and the archaeologist Sileshi Semaw, both from the Centro Nacional de Investigación…

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Human-specific genetics: new tools to explore the molecular and cellular basis of human evolution

Abstract Our ancestors acquired morphological, cognitive and metabolic modifications that enabled humans to colonize diverse habitats, develop extraordinary technologies and…

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Eastern Africa’s oldest human fossils are more ancient than we realized

Ash traced back to an Ethiopian volcano suggests the remains are at least 233,000 years old. Ethiopia's Kibish Formation was…

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One pedigree we all may have come from – did Adam and Eve have the chromosome 2 fusion?

Background In contrast to Great Apes, who have 48 chromosomes, modern humans and likely Neandertals and Denisovans have and had,…

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Exploring blood types of Neanderthal and Denisovan individuals

An analysis of the blood types of one Denisovan and three Neanderthal individuals has uncovered new clues to the evolutionary…

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Many people have a little Neandertal in the brain. Does it matter?

Research has started to show the ways that introgressed genes from Neandertals affect brain shape in living people. A decade…

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Lucy’s Feet Were Arched and Stiff, Just Like Ours

How did Lucy walk? Although the famous 3.2-million-year-old skeleton shows that she was undoubtedly an upright walker, our incomplete knowledge…

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More African Genomes are Being Sequenced to Increase the Diversity of Genomic Data

About 30 million or so people have had their DNA sequenced in the 20 years after the first human genome…

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Neanderthal genes helped our ancestors adjust to ‘Winter Time’

A group of American researchers have found evidence that genes derived from Neanderthals helped ancient people adapt to a new…

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Neanderthals, Denisovans, And Modern Humans Might Have Intermingled

The Southern Caspian Corridor may have been a human hotspot. The southern shore of the Caspian Sea may have provided…

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