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Category Archives: Neanderthals

Autistic individuals are NOT Neanderthal hybirds

April 8, 2013by Adam Benton 15 Comments

A while ago I wrote about the Neanderthal theory of autism (NAT). For those of you who don’t remember (and are too lazy to click on that link), it’s the […]

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Archaeology, Evolution, Genetics, Human evolution, Neanderthals, Science
The Neanderthal chin in question

The Neanderthal with a chin: a human hybrid?

April 4, 2013by Adam Benton 4 Comments

Humans may have been evolving for millions of years, but some of our traits only developed recently. I’m always fascinated by these modern traits, they’re often the last thing you […]

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Archaeology, Evolution, Genetics, Human evolution, Neanderthals, Science
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Earlier Neanderthal Extinction?

April 3, 2013by Adam Benton 17 Comments

Today’s question comes from Cadell, a fellow Advanced Ape. He claims to be Canadian, but I’ve never heard him apologise for anything so I’ve always been skeptical about his heritage. […]

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Archaeology, Evolution, Human evolution, Media, Neanderthals, Science
Our redated journey of of Africa

When did humans leave Africa?

March 28, 2013by Adam Benton 13 Comments

Fossil evidence indicates that modern humans evolved in Africa around 195,000 years ago (McDougall et al., 2005). Genetic data confirms this, showing that all living people share an African ancestor […]

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Archaeology, Evolution, Genetics, Human evolution, Migration, Neanderthals, Science
Some of the microscopic marks made by throwing a spear at something

Could Neanderthals Throw #2

February 21, 2013by Adam Benton 5 Comments

Neanderthals were very similar to us; even being so close genetically that we were able to interbreed. But it’s their differences that are fascinating because they suggest that all it […]

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Anatomy, Archaeology, Evolution, Human evolution, Neanderthals, Prehistory, Science
potential range

Why did the Neanderthals go extinct?

February 12, 2013by Adam Benton 10 Comments

This post will be appearing on the Advanced Apes shortly. You get a peak ahead of time, because I love you The Neanderthals were our closest relatives who dominated the […]

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Anatomy, Archaeology, Evolution, Genetics, Human evolution, Neanderthals, Science
Cave art: A creationist hoax

Cave art: A creationist hoax

January 28, 2013by Adam Benton 11 Comments

In 1879 Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola was conducting an archaeological excavation of the entrance to Altamira Cave, Spain. He’d just returned from a French conference on prehistory and was determined to make some […]

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Archaeology, Creationism, Evolution, Human evolution, Neanderthals, Prehistory, Science
The annotation of this picture is pretty self-explanatory, so I'll just add that "mousterian" refers to the toolkit produced by neanderthals.

What did neanderthals wear?

November 13, 2012by Adam Benton 4 Comments

Neanderthals lived in Europe from ~400,000 years ago to ~28,000 years ago. During this time period the climate was difficult, with numerous ice ages and other dramatic climate shifts like […]

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Anthropology, Archaeology, Evolution, Human evolution, Neanderthals, Prehistory, Science, Technology
The recalculated divergence of humans and chimps

Humans and chimps diverged earlier than previously thought

October 2, 2012by Adam Benton 10 Comments

Our lineage’s fossil record is especially sparse between 4 – 8 million years ago. From that time period we have roughly 50 fragmented specimens making up only 6 or so […]

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Chimps, Evolution, Genetics, Human evolution, Neanderthals, Primate, Science
Wood's reconstruction. The blue line represents the flood.

Denisovans diverged from humans 4,000 years ago?

September 3, 2012by Adam Benton 11 Comments

Todd C. Wood is a geneticist who is also a genuine, dyed in the wool young earth creationist. The co-existence of two such divergant positions is perplexing, made all the […]

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Creationism, Evolution, Genetics, Human evolution, Media, Neanderthals, Science

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Adam Benton

Adam Benton

I'm studying evolutionary anthropology at the University of Liverpool. I'm currently in my third year of an undergraduate degree, hoping to progress onto a PhD someday. I'm too interested in human evolution for my own good, so decided to write a blog on it.

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