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Jeff Brzezinski | Anthropology | University of Colorado Boulder
5+ day, 2+ hour ago (136+ words) (BA Anthropology, 2007, University of Florida; MA Anthropology, 2011, University of Central Florida, PhD Anthropology, 2019 University of Colorado). Jeff specializes in the archaeology of Mesoamerica, particularly southern Mexico. His dissertation research focused on the collapse and regeneration of early complex societies in…...
Archaeologists Discover New Denisovan Fossils in Yunnan Province Cave - SSBCrack News
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (243+ words) Home » Science » Archaeologists Discover New Denisovan Fossils in Yunnan Province Cave Archaeologists conducting excavations in a cave located in southwestern China have made a significant discovery of fossilized remains linked to a mysterious group of extinct hominins known as the…...
Denisovan remains dating back up to 167,000 years found in China
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (354+ words) Denisovan remains dating back 134,000 to 167,000 years have been discovered in Bianfu Cave in Yunnan Province in southwestern China. Two studies published in the journal Nature on September 9 also describe the stone tools and way of life of this group of…...
Cave fossils in China reveal lives of mysterious human relatives
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (912+ words) Estimated read time: 7-8 minutes Archaeologists excavating a cave in southwestern China have unearthed fossilized remains that belonged to an enigmatic population of extinct hominins, revealing new details about their long-lost way of life. The new haul — which includes four teeth,…...
136 long-clawed shrew skulls from Hokkaido showed the classic winter flattening of the braincase, and across the same series the snout enlarged in winter and shrank again in spring
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (595+ words) A museum series of Sorex unguiculatus from Tomakomai confirms Dehnel's winter braincase shrink in an Asian shrew, and adds a reverse pattern in the snout that the authors did not find in the jaw. By Natural History · Edited by Chris…...
Modern humans interbred with Neanderthals before they disappeared, and most people of non-African ancestry still carry roughly 1 to 4 percent Neanderthal DNA today — meaning part of the human population we once thought we simply replaced never actually vanished
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (104+ words) The fossil record suggested modern humans simply wiped out their evolutionary cousins, but genetic evidence now reveals a messier, more intimate history of coexistence and interbreeding....
Humans of WHOI - Kim Malkoski
4+ day, 44+ min ago (130+ words) Solving business challenges with proven ocean expertise. People / Kim Malkoski I grew up right off of Cape Cod, so I've always kind of been surrounded by water. My dad was a dive instructor, so diving's kind of always been a…...
Denisovans Once Roamed Southwest China, New Fossils Reveal
4+ day, 50+ min ago (418+ words) Paleoanthropologists have identified a trove of Denisovan fossils from a cave in China’s Yunnan province, extending the known range of the elusive human relative and providing the first-ever direct evidence of what its forearm bones looked like. An artist’s concept…...
Human DNA hides two ghost ancestors — one from a species 1.8 million years old
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (476+ words) Every modern human carries roughly 1.5% of their genome from two populations of hominins that left no known fossils, have no formally assigned species name, and have never had their ancient DNA sequenced. Both populations mated with our ancestors at different…...
Heel-Toe Mobility Separated Humans From Lesser Primates
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (319+ words) We take thousands of steps each day and we never think about the evolutionary and cultural advantage it represents. Humans naturally land with a heel-strike and the metabolic energy savings were as much as 41 percent, which made traveling farther possible,…...