Neanderthal

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3-14-18
  

  Ancient DNA Is Rewriting Human (and Neanderthal) History

  The genomes of the long dead are turning up all sorts of unexpected and controversial findings.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  7-4-17
  

  In Neanderthal DNA, Signs of a Mysterious Human Migration

  A new genetic analysis finds that ancient Africans walked into Europe 270,000 years ago, much earlier than previously known, and interbred with Neanderthals.

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  3-14-17
  

  400,000-Year-Old Skull Fragment Points to Undiscovered Neanderthal Ancestor

  The skull bears a mixture of traits—some link it to the Neanderthals, such as a fused brow ridge, while other features are representative of other extinct fossils in Europe, according to the journal Science.

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• SOURCE: New Historian
  3-2-17
  

  Neanderthal DNA Still Affecting Modern Humans

  The team of experts at the University of Washington in Seattle compared the modern DNA with DNA from Neanderthals and was able to determine that fragments of Neanderthal genes had survived and remained active in 52 separate types of human tissue.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  1-11-17
  

  Neanderthals Were People, Too

  New research shows they shared many behaviors that we long believed to be uniquely human. Why did science get them so wrong?

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• SOURCE: New Historian
  2-18-16
  

  Earliest Neanderthal-Human Interbreeding Evidence Found

  Co-led by Professor Adam Siepel from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) on Long Island, NY, the team found evidence of interbreeding dating back to approximately 100,000 years in the past – several millennia before any other existing documented interbreeding event.

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• SOURCE: Live Science
  4-10-15
  

  Oldest Neanderthal DNA Found in Italian Skeleton

  These molecules, which could be up to 170,000 years old, could one day help yield the most complete picture yet of Neanderthal life, researchers say.

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• SOURCE: Foreign Policy In Focus
  1-21-15
  

  A Neanderthal Foreign Policy

  by John Feffer

  What the humble Neanderthal can teach us about war, peace, climate, and getting along.

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• SOURCE: Phys.org
  11-18-14
  

  Were Neanderthals a sub-species of modern humans? New research says no

  Researchers have identified new evidence supporting the growing belief that Neanderthals were a distinct species separate from modern humans (Homo sapiens), and not a subspecies of modern humans.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  10-22-14
  

  Man’s Genome From 45,000 Years Ago Is Reconstructed

  And the genome, extracted from a fossil thighbone found in Siberia, added strong support to a provocative hypothesis: Early humans interbred with Neanderthals.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  9-2-14
  

  Neanderthal 'Art' Found In Cave Sheds Surprising New Light On Ancient Intelligence

  It looks like a game of tic tac toe, but engravings found deep inside a cave in Gibraltar might be a Neanderthal masterpiece.

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• SOURCE: National Geographic
  8-20-14
  

  Neanderthals Died Out 10,000 Years Earlier Than Thought, With Help From Modern Humans

  New fossil dates show our ancient cousins disappeared 40,000 years ago.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  6-25-14
  

  Ancient Poop Suggests Neanderthals Ate Way More Veggies Than We Thought

  Or, more specifically, traces of Neanderthal feces taken from a Spanish cave.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  6-19-14
  

  Neanderthal ancestors in Spain point to “Game of Thrones” era of human prehistory

  They didn’t have the large skulls or other robust skeletal features seen in the prototypical Neanderthals who, hundreds of millennia later, roamed Ice Age Europe.

• SOURCE: National Geographic
  6-5-13
  

  The Neanderthal with the world's oldest tumor

  A benign bone tumor that afflicts modern-day humans has now been found in one of our ancestors: a Neanderthal more than 120,000 years old.The discovery of a fibrous dysplasia in a Neanderthal rib is the earliest known bone tumor on record, predating other tumors by more than 100,000 years. The rib, recovered from a site in Krapina, Croatia, indicates that Neanderthals were susceptible to the same types of tumors modern-day humans get, despite living in a remarkably different environment."They didn't have pesticides, but they probably were sleeping in caves with burning fires," says David Frayer, an anthropologist at the University of Kansas and the co-author of a new paper about the discovery. "They were probably inhaling a lot of smoke from the caves. So the air was not completely free of pollutants—but certainly, these Neanderthals weren't smoking cigarettes."...

• SOURCE: AtlanticW
  2-12-13
  

  Serbian cave produces oldest human ancestor in this part of Europe

  A fragment of lower jaw recovered from a Serbian cave has now been dated as the oldest hominin ancestor found in this part of Europe. The fossil was dated to between 397,000 and 525,000 years old, a time when distinctly Neanderthal traits began to appear in Europe. The evolution of these traits was strongly influenced by periodic isolation of groups of individuals, caused by glacial episodes. According to research published in February 2012 in the open access journal PLoS ONE, the individual probably evolved under different conditions than populations who inhabited more western parts of the continent during the same time frame....