Humanity’s ancestry has grown far clearer thanks to our ability to obtain ancient DNA. We now know that, as humans […]
Tag: human evolution
Neanderthal brains measure up to ours—literally
(When we talk about “intelligence,” we’re describing something complex and, frankly, sort of nebulous; it’s impossible to really quantify, but […]
Neanderthals seemed to have a thing for modern human women
By now, it’s firmly established that modern humans and their Neanderthal relatives met and mated as our ancestors expanded out […]
We have a fossil closer to our split with Neanderthals and Denisovans
The Casablanca fossils are about the same age as hominin fossils from Spain, which belong to a species called Homo […]
Humans in southern Africa were an isolated population until recently
Collectively, the genetic variants in this population are outside the range of previously described human diversity. That’s despite the fact […]