Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Contemporary humans carry in their cells a small amount of DNA derived from Neanderthals and Denisovans. “Denny,” a 90,000-year-old fossil individual, recently identified as the daughter of a Denisovan father and a Neanderthal mother, bears
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – By analyzing genomes up to 40,000 years old, scientists have traced the history of migrations between Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals. About 40,000 years ago, Neanderthals, who had lived for hundreds of thousands of years in
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new study describes “a missing law of nature,” recognizing for the first time an important norm within the natural world’s workings. In essence, the new law states that complex natural systems evolve to states
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Modern humans migrated to Eurasia 75,000 years ago, where they encountered and interbred with Neanderthals. A new study published in the journal Current Biology shows that at this time Neanderthals were already carrying human DNA from a
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The fact that Neanderthals were able to make a fire and use it, among other things, for cooking, demonstrates their intelligence. “This confirms our observations and theories from previous studies,” explains Diego Angelucci, archaeologist at
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Some of nature’s mysteries have kept scientists busy for decades—for example, the processes that drive evolution. The question of whether certain differences between and within species are caused by natural selection or by chance processes
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have found evidence suggesting the ancient use of ochre in Africa and Europe indicates that body painting, clothing decoration, and tattooing may date back to more than 300,00 years ago, or perhaps even 500,000
AncientPages.com – Our species, Homo sapiens, migrated out of Africa multiple times – reaching the Levant and Arabia between 130,000 and 70,000 years ago, as exemplified by human fossils and archaeological sites found at various locations. A general view of Wadi
AncientPages.com – Everyone knows that arithmetic is true: 2 + 2 = 4. But surprisingly, we don’t know why it’s true. By stepping outside the box of our usual way of thinking about numbers, my colleagues and I have recently shown that arithmetic
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A team of evolutionary scientists has presented evidence the Neanderthals vanishing when Homo sapiens emerged in Europe may have been coincidental. In a new study, scientists examined how the co-existence between the two species was
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A 455-million-year-old fossil fish provides a new perspective on how vertebrates evolved to protect their brains, a study has found. In a paper published in Nature researchers from the University of Birmingham, Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden,
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Many years ago, in 1986, the Archaeology Museum of Catalonia in Spain received a box. The gift was a donation from amateur paleontologist Miguel Aznar, who, back in the late 1970s, had collected bones and
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Half a million years ago, earlier than was previously thought possible, humans were building structures made of wood, according to new research by a team from the University of Liverpool and Aberystwyth University. The research,
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A new analysis of mass extinction at the genus level, from researchers at Stanford and the National Autonomous University of Mexico, finds a “mutilation of the tree of life” with massive potential harms to human
AncientPages.com – In 1933 a mysterious fossil skull was discovered near Harbin City in the Heilongjiang province of north-eastern China. Despite being nearly perfectly preserved – with square eye sockets, thick brow ridges and large teeth – nobody could work
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A new study published in Biology Letters by researchers from the University of Bath (UK) and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico) shows that flowering plants escaped relatively unscathed from the mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs 66
