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Denisovan remains dating back up to 167,000 years found in China
14+ hour, 8+ min 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
19+ hour, 16+ min 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,…...
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
2+ day, 6+ 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
2+ day, 21+ hour 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…...
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Denisovans Once Roamed Southwest China, New Fossils Reveal
2+ day, 21+ hour 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
3+ day, 1+ 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
2+ day, 22+ 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,…...
The First Denisovan Arm Bone Offers a New Clue to What These Ancient and Mysterious Humans Looked Like
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (750+ words) Home → Science → Anthropology New fossils, tools and butchered bones put an elusive human lineage into everyday life. The fossil is only about 4.5 centimeters long, a broken piece of the radius near the elbow. But for scientists trying to reconstruct the…...
For 15 Years We Knew Denisovans Only From Their DNA. A Chinese Cave Just Gave Them an Arm
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (618+ words) A quarry cleanup in southwest China has turned up the first Denisovan arm bone ever found — along with hunting tools and animal remains that finally let researchers picture how this elusive human relative actually lived, rather than just what its…...