Когда-то на Земле обитало девять видов людей. Теперь остался только один. Убили ли мы остальные?
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300 000 лет назад на Земле обитало девять видов людей. Теперь остался только один. Неандертальцы, Homo neanderthalensis, были…
300 000 лет назад на Земле обитало девять видов людей. Теперь остался только один. Неандертальцы, Homo neanderthalensis, были…
В начале мая группа во главе с Маттиасом Мейером (Matthias Meyer) и Еленой Эссель (Elena Essel) из Института эволюционной антропо…
Paleogenomic research has expanded rapidly over the past two decades, igniting heated debates about handling human remains. Who…
Children playing near Kimbe, the capital of Papua New Guinea’s West New Britain Province. New Leakey Foundation-supported…
A lasting legacy.
When the first modern humans arose in East Africa sometime between 200,000 and 300,000 years ago, the world was very different…
Kis csoportokban éltek a neandervölgyiek, és ezeket a csoportokat a nők vándorlása köthette össze, legalábbis elterjedési terület…
Svante Pääbónak, a lipcsei Max Planck Evolúciós Antropológiai Intézet kutatójának ítélték oda a 2022-es orvosi-élettani Nobel-díj…
Genomic analysis of ancient remains has shed light on the origins of the black death and offers insights into the coevolution…
The Tam Ngu Hao 2 Cave in Laos held Denisovan remains—the first ever found in Southeast Asia, showing the expansive…
Fabrice Demeter (University of Copenhagen / CNRS Paris), Author…
They might have left a path for us.
A new paper1 in Nature Ecology and Evolution has been published documenting the discovery of five new hominin fossils from the…
W ciągu ostatniej dekady postęp technologiczny umożliwił wygenerowanie danych z całego genomu około 15 wymarłych hominidów…
Not as extinct as we think.
In 1980, the 160,000-year-old fossilized partial jawbone of a Denisovan — the so-called Xiahe mandible — was found in Baishiya…
This week it was announced that a new genetic study published in the journal Nature shows that the genomes of over 27,000…
Один участок находится в хромосоме 16, и он попал к нам от денисовцев, другой, в хромосоме 8 — от неандертальцев
The entrance to Denisova cave, where the ancient humans were first discovered. (Credit: Igor Boshin/Shutterstock) Nestled in…
Long before this cave painting was made, our ancestors met and interacted with multiple types of ancient human. (Credit…
For about a decade, Denisovans were only known from fragmentary remains recoverd from a single site in Siberia. Now, a newly…
Researchers have identified three distinct Denisovan lineages, including one that could constitute an entirely separate species
How old are the Denisovans, when did they meet and interbreed with Neanderthals, when and why did both groups become extinct in…
Flujo genético entre las poblaciones del Paleolítico. Kay Prüfer et al (2013).Las excavaciones en la cámara central de Denisova…
Once upon a time, in a cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia, different types of ancient peoples were having sex. A…
How can one ever justify creating a new species name based on scraps of fossil bones or teeth?
Вот уже несколько лет после расшифровки гk
Far from being stuck in a stuffy past, the unifying message of modern archaeology is vital for steering us towards a positive…
Humans are a success story like no other. We are now living in the Anthropocene age, meaning much of what we see around us has…
Lizzie Wade in Science: It looked like an ordinary finger bone. But when researchers sequenced its DNA in 2010, they uncovered…
The idea that the genomes of those of us without African ancestry harbor some DNA from Neanderthals has inspired cartoons and…
Ancient DNA studies keep on delivering awesome findings about human evolution. Continuing this trend, Matthias Meyer and…
Plants and…
Genetic research now shows that we have more in common with these ancient humans than we thoughtShould you find yourself in the…
by Jamie Henzy Figure 1. This comparison of skulls from a modern human (left) and Neanderthal (right), from the Cleveland…
Percentage of Denisovan DNA in modern human populations shown relative to New Guinea and Australian Aborigines. Image based on [3…
Percentage of Denisovan DNA in modern human populations shown relative to New Guinea and Australian Aborigines. Image based on [3…
According to a study published in the journal Science, Denisovans – relatives to both Neanderthals and humans – somehow managed…
There’s much to recommend in Carl Zimmer’s profile of David Reich in Discovery Magazine, not least of which are details on our…
I noted in an earlier post that studies of the dog genealogy seem to follow historical precedent, with trees being used for the…
The following are my (Graham Coop, @graham_coop) brief thoughts on Sriram Sankararaman et al.’s arXived article: “The date of…
This post is by Sriram Sankararaman, Nick Patterson, Heng Li, Svante Pääbo, and David Reich on their paper The date of…
In 2010, Svante Pääbo and his colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Leipzig presented a…
On August 31, 2012, Science magazine reported that the complete genome for the Denisovans had been mapped. The Denisovans…
Synopsis: A technological advance in library preparation gives rise to much better knowledge of the ancient DenisovansScience…
Did they really “do it?” We’re not talking about actress Kristen Stewart and her “Snow White and the Huntsman” director; We’re…
In my discussion of Di Vincenzo et al. (2012) and Freidline et al. (2012), I noted how Neandertals appeared to be converging…
An analysis of virus fossils suggests Denisovans, not humans, were Neanderthals' closest relatives. Image courtesy of Flickr…
Synopsis: Neandertals in western Europe have a recent mtDNA ancestor, pointing to the dynamics within their population.Neandertal…
Posted on behalf of Katherine Rowland. From the fragment of a finger bone found in a Siberian cave, researchers have created…
We’ve covered the mitochondrial genome of the Denisova individual 2 years ago, back in March 2010. For those not familiar with…
They had bigger brains and muscles, but for some reason Neanderthals —thick boned humans who thrived for hundreds of thousands…
Synopsis: We're quantifying the amount of Neandertal ancestry in whole genome data from living people.For our project to…
Synopsis: I describe the outline of our project on the pigmentation genetics of the Neandertal and Denisova genomesThis week I…
Synopsis: Weidenreich's introduction to the Sinanthropus cranial monograph illuminates some issues I'm facing with ancient…
Aborigeni australiani. (Cortesia National Archives of Australia). Implicazioni varie da una ciocca di capelli aborigeni. E…
Sich mit taxonomischen Fragestellungen auseinanderzusetzen ist in aller Regel eine ziemlich undankbare Aufgabe. In irgendeiner…
Taxonomy isn’t a really satisfying branch of evolutionary biology, especially if you’re interested in the phylogenetic…
I wish I were talking about some beastly horse-big-cat hybrid, or at least a carnivorous horse. Instead... a ton of anthropology…
The molar tooth of a Denisovan. Image courtesy of David Reich et al.…
Svante Paabo (Cortesia Tom Stockill). Un uomo che conosce bene l’evoluzione dell’Uomo. L’Uomo di Neanderthal e Svante Paabo.
Avouez qu'il fait envie. S’accoupler entre cousins, ce n’est pas réservé aux Amish, aux nobles et au Nord-Pas-de-Calais (voire à…
Some modern humans carry immune genes that originated in Neanderthals and a related species. But these genes may have come at a…
I'm sitting at a cafe in Tbilisi, departing at 4:00 am tomorrow for America. Readers will notice that I've been MIA while…
Heute geht es um ein Thema, ohne das es vermutlich viele der momentan herrschenden Diskussionen innerhalb der Paläoanthropologie…
There is one topic which somehow touches almost every major debate in Paleoanthroplogy and this is the question about how…
Neanderthal: è grazie al suo sistema immunitario se il sapiens colonizzò il mondo (Cortesia: Ryan Somma) Neanderthal e…
John Hawks writes that different "Neandertal"-derived haplotypes are found in Europe and China. He attributes this to genetic…
“There is a great difference of opinion among ethnologists who have seen these Negritos, as to the race to which they belong”, S.
“There is a great difference of opinion among ethnologists…
With the technical advances in gene sequencing, the possibilities of their use are growing rapidly. Totally new scientific…
Quante informazioni si possono estrarre dal fossile di una falange vecchia tra i 30 e i 50 mila anni? Moltissime, come dimostra…
Analysis of mitochondrial DNA shows that the human matrilineage split from the Denisovan matrilineage around a million years ago.
2010 was a big year for anthropology and lawn-chair-anthropologists. There was laughter and crying, and maybe also some yelling.
Três trabalhos foram comentados recentemente pela impressa a respeito da origem e da evolução dos humanos.Estudo de restos…
Last week a paper was published on the DNA sequencing of the complete genome of an approximately 40,000 year old finger bone…
Svante Paabo, ormai riconosciuto come uno dei massimi esperti nello studio del DNA antico, ci offre un altro interessante…
Earlier this year, I discussed…
There is a lot of discussion about a recent Nature article which looks at DNA from an ancient group of humans found in Denisova…
Find the human! Pretty easy, right? RIGHT??It is obvious what is "human" and what is not if we just look at living organisms.
Analysis of DNA extracted from an ancient finger bone points to the existence of a previously unknown type of ancient human…
'Denisovans' shared Asia with Neanderthals and modern humans 30,000 years ago, DNA analysis of the finger showsA fossilised…