Scientists pinpoint age of suspected human-Neanderthal hybrid child
Advanced radiocarbon dating has provided the most accurate age assessment yet for the “Lapedo Child,” one of the most provocative prehistoric human skeletons ever discovered. But the results of this study published March 7 in the journal Science Advances aren’t likely to settle an ongoing debate in the paleoarcheological community.
Neanderthal fossils show a major population drop 110,000 years ago. Researchers link this to reduced genetic diversity.
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28,000-year-old Neanderthal-and-human 'Lapedo child' lived tens of thousands of years after our closest relatives went extinctResearchers used a novel method of radiocarbon dating to figure out the age of the Lapedo child, who had both Neanderthal and ...
A recent study compared features of Neanderthals' inner ears across space and time to extrapolate what happened to them tens ...
The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big ...
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Neanderthal Extinction Linked to Genetic Crisis 100,000 Years AgoThe extinction of the Neanderthals is one of the most intriguing mysteries in paleoanthropology, with researchers speculating ...
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Drastic climatic changes likely had profound impacts on the genetic and morphological variability of the Neanderthal lineage.
But ever since the first Neanderthal fossil was discovered in the mid-19th century, it’s been impossible to grasp who they really were and how they lived —until now. New archeological ...
He and his team have found a comparatively small number of changes in the genes between us and Neanderthals, including changes in the brain. Could these differences explain what makes us human?
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