Enlarge Between 125,000 and 70,000 years ago, people began to do some very modern things: collecting small objects for no practical reason, decorating things with pigments, and storing water and possibly even food in containers. The oldest known sites with evidence of those behaviors are along the coastline of southern Africa. Today, most of those […]
Enlarge / The difference between modern human (left) and Neanderthal skulls means there must be some differences in how their brains develop. (credit: Wikimedia Commons) What are the key differences between modern humans and our closest relatives, the Neanderthals and Denisovans? For the Neanderthals, there doesn’t look to be any sort of obvious difference. They […]
The versatility that helped humans take over the world emerged very early in our evolutionary history, according to sediments and stone tools from Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. Olduvai has provided some of the oldest known tools and fossils from our genus, Homo. A recent study lines that evidence up with environmental clues buried in the […]
Expand / All these excavations identified Denisovan DNA inside the sediment. The Denisovans occupy an extremely bizarre place in humankind’s history. Such as the Neanderthals, they’re an {} branch away from the lineage that made modern people and afterwards intermingled with modern people. But we had understood of Neanderthals for about 150 years until we […]
Replies of Modern Human and Neanderthal skulls in the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. (charge: hairymuseummatt) We are aware that Neanderthals left their mark {} the DNA of several contemporary people, but {} functioned both ways. The bands of Neanderthals our species fulfilled in Eurasia about 45,000 years ago previously {} a few Homo sapiens […]