early peoples

Left Genetic analysis of Neanderthal remains from Chagyrskaya Cave revealed that several of these individuals were closely related. below Among the familial relationships identified was a father and daughter: the first documented example of such a pair among known Neanderthal populations.

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Genetic analysis shines new light on Neanderthal communities

Researchers conducted genetic analysis of bone and tooth remains from 13 Neanderthals from two sites in the foothills of the Altai Mountains in southern Siberia.

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Early limb amputation in Borneo

The fossilised remains, which date to between 31,000 and 30,000 years ago, were found during excavations at Liang Tebo. Previously, the earliest known evidence of surgical amputation came from a farmer in France c.7,000 years ago

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DNA, diets, and dealing with the weather

Svante Pääbo is the second member of his family to be elected a Nobel laureate: his father, Sune Bergström (1916-2004) shared the same Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1982. Is there a gene, one wonders, for Nobel-Prize-winning science?