Enlarge / El Salt is an open-air rock shelter nestled against the base of a limestone cliff. Archaeological evidence tells us that Neanderthals lived here from around 60,700 to 45,200 years ago. (credit: Candela et al. 2021) Biologist Marco Candela and his colleagues recently sequenced ancient microbial DNA from 50,000-year-old Neanderthal feces found at the […]
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 […]
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 […]