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Mysterious Skeleton of Child With Human and Neanderthal Traits Has Finally Been Dated by Archaeologists
In 1998, archaeologists discovered the skeletal remains of a child in Portugal’s Lapedo Valley. When the team took a closer ...
Something Bad Happened to Neanderthals 110,000 Years Ago—and It May Have Sealed Their Fate
A recent study compared features of Neanderthals' inner ears across space and time to extrapolate what happened to them tens ...
The last days of the Neanderthals
The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big ...
Earth.com1d
Neanderthal fossils reveal signs of a devastating population collapse
Neanderthal fossils show a major population drop 110,000 years ago. Researchers link this to reduced genetic diversity.
ZME Science on MSN7d
A Population Collapse 110,000 Years Ago May Have Doomed The Neanderthals
For thousands of years, Neanderthals flourished across Eurasia. But new research suggests their genetic diversity plummeted ...
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New study reveals Neanderthals experienced population crash 110,000 years ago
A new study by an international team of scholars, including faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York, ...
Your DNA Is (Almost Certainly) From Outer Space
Did you know that many of us have up to 4% neanderthal DNA? And that 100% of your DNA may come from outer space? No joke. The biochemistry that defined the coding system of your D ...
Testing the Out of Africa model in East Eurasian genomic origins
University of Tokyo researchers have investigated the origin and dispersal scenarios of Homo sapiens into East Eurasia. The ...
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Scientists Date Remains of Ancient Child that Resembles Both Humans, Neanderthals
Scientists have dated the skeleton of an ancient child that caused a stir when it was first discovered because it carries ...
Live Science on MSN3d
28,000-year-old Neanderthal-and-human 'Lapedo child' lived tens of thousands of years after our closest relatives went extinct
Researchers used a novel method of radiocarbon dating to figure out the age of the Lapedo child, who had both Neanderthal and ...