DNA from ancient Denisovans may have played a significant role in helping humans adapt to new environments, new study reveals.| The Debrief
The first people to set foot in the Americas crossed with them not only stone technology and survival skills across the icy expanse of the Bering Strait. Along with these, a new study published in Science indicates that they also carried a genetic legacy inherited from two extinct relatives—Neanderthals and Denisovans—that could have helped them […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
A minor genetic difference in one of the enzymes may have helped separate modern humans from Neanderthals and Denisovans, our closest extinct relatives, and may have even contributed to the fact that Homo sapiens thrived while the others became extinct. These are the findings of a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
Wetenschappers vragen zich al heel lang af hoe Tibetanen op zo’n grote hoogte kunnen leven zonder ziek te worden. Onder de Tibetanen in Tibet treedt niet of nauwelijks hypoxie op, een lager dan normaal niveau van zuurstof in het bloed.| Boeddhistisch Dagblad
During the Middle Palaeolithic (250 to 30 ka) anatomically modern humans (AMH) and Neanderthals were engaged in new technological developments in Europe and Africa as well as in migration and socia…| Earth-logs
New resolution is emerging of some events in ancient human populations, and a clearer view of some parts of the genome.| John Hawks
A 50-thousand-year-old tree resin sample reveals ancient humans colonized the Pacific Ocean thousands of years earlier than previously shown.| The Debrief
Sections The roots of modern people Human superhighways Humans’ impact on their world Apart from their occupation of Dmanisi in Georgia around 1.9 to 1.8 Ma, Europe as a whole was not the prime destination… More| Stepping Stones