Neanderthals

Ancient DNA from Denisovans left humans with a significant genetic advantage — a gene variant that could have helped early Americans survive new pathogens, and may still affect our health today. It allowed the Sherpa tribe of Nepal to live easily in the Himalayan highlands. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The hidden Denisovan gene that helped humans conquer the Americas

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Traces of long-buried Denisovan DNA are resurfacing in the genomes of modern humans—and they may still be working in our favor today
Reconstruction of a Neanderthal family in the Neanderthal Museum in Croatia. Illustration: depositphotos.com

First Neanderthal footprints on the coast of Portugal change knowledge of early humans

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Fossilized footprints dating back some 80 years discovered on the Algarve coast reveal how Neanderthals moved, hunted and exploited coastal environments – and show a diverse diet based on deer, horses, rabbits and marine resources.
Figure: Morphological variation in the semicircular canals of the ear in Neanderthals. Credit: Alessandro Urciuoli, Institut Català de Paleop

Neanderthals experienced a catastrophic population collapse 110,000 years ago

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New study reveals sharp decline in Neanderthal genetic and morphological diversity in evolutionary bottleneck
Two ancient human skulls. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The genetic secret revealed: Humans evolved from two separate ancient species

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New research at the University of Cambridge reveals that the modern human genome was created as a result of a merger between two ancient populations, which separated about 1.5 million years ago and reunited about 300 years ago.
Illustration depicting Homo sapiens and Neanderthals sharing technology and behavior (Credit: Efrat Bakshitz)

Contrary to conventional scientific belief: Homo sapiens and Neanderthals were not enemies and even cooperated

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New research conducted in the Tanshemesh Cave in central Israel reveals that ancient humans lived together, shared technologies, and even maintained extensive cultural and social ties * Prof. Yossi Seidman of the Hebrew University, lead researcher
Evolution of man: display of skulls of our ancestors. Illustration: depositphotos.com

New research may explain why the human brain is so large and developed

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A new study conducted at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem presents an innovative method for inferring DNA methylation patterns in tissues that did not come from ancient skeletons, and provides a deeper understanding of the evolutionary processes that shaped the human brain and its functions
A collection of tools from the first settlement at the Sui Habez site in Tajikistan. Photo: The Hebrew University.

New archaeological research reveals rare evidence of early human settlement in Central Asia

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Born in Papua, in the province of Papua in Indonesia. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Early humans interbred with three different extinct species of Denisovans

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Genes from extinct human species allow the Tibetans to live in a low-oxygen environment, the Papuans got a good immune system and the Inuit (formerly called Eskimos) cope thanks to these genes with the arctic cold
Japanese women wearing kimono. Illustration: depositphotos.com

A new study has discovered three main genetic groups in Japan and not two as previously thought

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A new study analyzed whole-genome sequencing data from 3256 people across Japan, using the Japan Biobank database. The division is: a group in Okinawa, related to an ancient population living in Japan, mud in northeastern Japan, possibly related
Reconstruction of a Neanderthal family in the Neanderthal Museum in Croatia. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The encounter between Neanderthals and modern man as told by their genomes

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A photo of Manot Cave with the marking of the area where some of the teeth were found. Photo: Prof. Israel Hershkovitz

Researchers from Tel Aviv University found teeth of a modern man and a Neanderthal man from about 40,000 years ago in Menot Cave in the Galilee

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Skull of a modern man (back) and a Neanderthal man. Photo: shutterstock

Did diseases spread by Homo sapiens eventually cause the extinction of the Neanderthals?

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Neanderthal man tries to hunt a mammoth. Illustration: shutterstock

Neanderthals and mammoths shared a genetic load of adaptation to cold conditions

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Neanderthal man. From a 2009 Russian textbook on human evolution. Neveshkin Nikolay / Shutterstock.com Photo: shutterstock

On the Neanderthals and their extinction

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Illustration: Charles R. Knight, 1920.

"Cavemen"? Not necessarily

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Neanderthal skull, La Chapelle-au-Sainte, France. From Wikipedia

Ancient Burial / Kate Wong

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Much of the Neanderthal genome is preserved in modern human populations. Neanderthal man. Illustration: shutterstock

Neanderthal lineages reconstructed from the modern human genome

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Neanderthal man. From a 2009 Russian textbook on human evolution. Neveshkin Nikolay / Shutterstock.com Photo: shutterstock

Archaeologists have rediscovered the lost home of the last Neanderthals in Western Europe

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Bones of a Neanderthal who lived 120 years ago in the area that is today Croatia, with a cancerous tumor on them. Photo: Janet Monge et al

A 120-year-old cancerous tumor was found in Neanderthal bones

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Neanderthal man - from Wikipedia, illustration from the 19th century Public domain image

who is who

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

The Disappeared Neighbors: Neanderthal DNA and Us

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Research confirmed - there were three subgroups of the Neanderthals

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