Enlarge (credit: Hajdinjak et al. 2020) DNA from the earliest Homo sapiens in Europe adds more detail to the story of our species’ expansion into Eurasia—and our complicated 5,000-year relationship with Neanderthals. The earliest traces of our species in Eurasia are a lower molar and a few fragments of bone from Bacho Kiro Cave in […]
Enlarge (credit: Luna) Dogs tagged along with the first humans to venture into the Americas, according to a recent study that analyzed existing collections of canine and human DNA. The results suggest that people domesticated dogs sometime before 23,000 years ago in Siberia, where isolated groups of wolves and people were struggling to survive 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 […]