While identifying specifics about tool use has proven difficult, we have begun to learn how Neanderthals used their landscapes by studying patterns of faunal exploitation and raw material transport. Evidence shows that, in western Europe, most raw materials used for stone tools are local and come ...
Still, the discovery suggests that, in terms of how they grew and developed after birth, Neanderthals were pretty similar to us. That’s important because it taps into how a species grows and develops, when it matures and reproduces, and ultimately how long it lives. (This is what scientis...
As a point of clarity – the Neanderthal and Denisovan did survive –not as pure Neanderthals or Denisovans – but admixed into the homo sapiens population –and they are indeed, us. If you have either European or Asian ancestry, then you have Neanderthal and Denisovan ancestry too. How coul...
long a fixture of the Institut Pasteur, still hasn’t adapted to Paris’s greyness. He is a migrant, appropriately. His bookHuman Peoples, about this century’s breakthroughs in genetics, explains that humans have always been migrants. “This is not champagne socialism,” he says....
Guatelli-Steinberg counted perikymata within linear enamel hypoplasias, and was able to gauge how long these episodes of physiological stress lasted. The perikymata showed that periods of up to three months of starvation for both the Neanderthals and the Inuit were not uncommon. In fact, Guatelli...
Neanderthals developed a deep understanding of the natural world, but they did not necessarily do so in the rational, logical, “scientific” manner that modern humans have come to expect and accept. “I think that they [the ancients, Neanderthals]” Gooch stated, “obtained their knowledge not...
To learn more about human evolution, Nielsen and his colleagues investigated how Tibetans might have developed their adaptation. Frustratingly, the research team's computer models could not at first explain how Tibetans evolved their pattern of EPAS1 mutations as quickly as they apparently did. ...
Weapons dated to 500,000 years ago may be an evolutionary oddity. Said one scientist: "It's like finding an iPod in a Roman Empire site."