Tag: neanderthals
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A New Piece in the Puzzle of Human Evolution
Sophie Teall writes about how the discovery of an archaic human population in Israel suggests a more complex evolutionary history than previously thought. As modern humans (Homo sapiens), we are the only members of the group Homo still walking the earth. It is easy to forget that several human lineages have called this planet home.…
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Ancestral interbreeding: our Neanderthal relatives may be closer than we thought
Neanderthals, our enigmatic and extinct relatives, may have been even more closely related to us then we thought, new research suggests. It is well established that modern humans interbred with Neanderthals in Europe around 50,000 years ago, leaving Eurasians with around 1-3% of our genome containing Neanderthal DNA. However, it now appears that this was…