Ancient DNA reveals how often and when humans & neanderthals interbred
Researchers recently published data from a 45,000 year old human genome. It sheds a lot of light on human/neanderthal interbreeding and the human migration out of Africa.
What did prehistoric people wear?
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Neanderthals were just really old people: disproven
Many creationists argue that Neanderthals were not a distinct branch of humans; but simply really old people. This article shows just one reason that cannot be the case.
Neanderthals were just as smart as us
“Behavioural modernity” is a set of traits thought to indicate whether stone age people were as smart as modern humans. However, this list may need some revision; the results of which show that Neanderthals might have been just as smart as us after all.
Neanderthal technology on par with humans
A new paper claims that Neanderthal technology was just as good as that made by contemporary humans; so can’t explain why they died out but we did not.
One less reason the Neanderthals went extinct
Early models indicated Neanderthals were inefficient walkers, which some thought might have contributed to their extinction. A new model challenges this view.
Neanderthal genes harmed humans
Not all Neanderthal genes were beneficial. Turns out some cause disease
Neanderthal genes helped humans adapt
Humans and Neanderthals interbred. Some of the genes we inherited from this union appear to have helped Europeans adapt to the new environment they found themselves in
Neanderthals more innovative than we thought?
We thought Neanderthal technology didn’t really increase in complexity over time. But a new way of measuring technological complexity suggests it did after all.
400,000 year old DNA confuses and surprises (conprises?)
400,000 year old DNA has been recovered from a human fossil. The fossil is meant to be that of a proto-Neanderthal; but the DNA suggests its actually more closely related to a different branch of humanity!
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