Others, however, have countered that the innovations seen in the Châtelperronian occurred before modern humans had arrived, demonstrating that Neanderthals had the ability to make the sophisticated material culture of the Upper Paleolithic (d'Errico 2003, Zilhao 2006). Recently, however, the ...
The irony - past artists would routinely portray Neanderthals as hulking, shuffling apelike types, yet it turns out that Neanderthals stood straighter than humans and could walk far further. Realistically, Neanderthals should be shown as to the right of humans, in the usual "ascent of man" por...
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The 6486 individuals examined here are part of the CANDELA cohort, collected in five Latin American countries21. This cohort has been previously studied in GWASs of various physical appearance traits1,2,22,23,24. This includes two previous facial morphology GWASs based on 2D photographs: one ma...
The researchers also looked for signs of "selective sweeps" - strong natural selection acting to boost traits in modern humans. They found 212 regions where positive selection may have been taking place. The scientists are interested in discovering genes that distinguish modern humans from Neanderthal...
As already noted, many Neanderthal traits seem to have been the result of isolation and random genetic drift. Other features, such as the large front teeth, may reflect an evolutionary response to aspects of their environment other than low temperature. Nevertheless, many features of Neanderthal an...
The site of la Roche-Cotard was discovered at the beginning of the 20th century but the Mousterien level (Roche-Cotard II), located in front of the opening of the cave, has been known only for 25 years. In this dwelling site a very special object undoubtedly prepared by humans was ...