Archeology
The oldest DNA decoding of people 400,000 years ago
German anthropologists have deciphered the oldest DNA of a person from an ancient femur 400,000 years ago.
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Archeology
Bone tools 51,000 years old
Neanderthals have created the oldest tools in Europe, and modern people may have learned how to make this tool from them.
Archeology
Detecting mysterious traces of gibbons
Studying the genome of the remains found in the famous Denisov cave today, scientists have determined a 17% coincidence with the Neanderthal gene, another 4% of the homi…
Archeology
Evidence of cancer in Neanderthals
A tumor lying on the rib of a 120,000-year-old skeleton shows that at least one Neanderthal who had been cancerous seemed to only haunt modern humans.
Archeology
People have eaten Neanderthal relatives?
Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Spain) researchers have come up with a very creepy hypothesis about the demise of Neanderthals, that our ancestors have been clean.
Archeology
Published the complete genome of Neanderthals
German scientists say they have completed the first high-quality Neanderthal genome decoding work, and are preparing to publish it online for other scientists to study.
Archeology
Descendants of modern people and extinct people show up
Scientists believe they have found the first evidence of mating behavior between Nealderthals and our ancestors.
Archeology
Are Neanderthals extinct because their eyes are too big?
A study of Neanderthal skulls reveals that, like this person, extinct because of having bigger eyes than modern humans - our ancestors.
Archeology
New discovery of the end of Neanderthals
Neanderthals could be extinct earlier than the long-accepted theory, according to new research by international experts.
Archeology
10 most archeological findings (2)
These archaeological findings have somewhat clarified the historical questions left open.
Archeology
The ambition to revive the extinct breed
Professor George Church from Harvard Medical School, believes that he could reconstruct the DNA of the ancient Neanderthals and revive the extinct breed 33,000 years ago.
Archeology
Ancient weapons of destruction
What makes us human? It is equipped with deadly weapons that defeat the Neanderthals and dominate the world.
Archeology
Stone spear was crafted from half a million years ago
Scientists have found evidence that ancient stone hunting tools appeared much earlier than previously thought for hundreds of thousands of years.
Archeology
The story of our ancestors' love with extinct people
The last mating between Neanderthals was extinct with modern people taking place from 47,000 to 65,000 years ago.