TopicNeanderthals

Topic: Neanderthals

‘Countless’ interstellar objects found at edge of solar system & how bacteria make electricity

Mohana Basu - 5 September, 2021

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Why 50% Indians will be happy to have some Neanderthal DNA. Hint: It has to do with Covid

Mohana Basu - 20 February, 2021

Researchers in Germany, Japan find that nearly half the Indian population has inherited a DNA sequence from Neanderthals that is believed to reduce risk of severe disease due to Covid.

30% South Asians have Neanderthal gene that increases risk of severe Covid-19: Study

Mohana Basu - 6 July, 2020

The study by Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology shows the gene was present in a Neanderthal who lived in Croatia 50,000 years ago.

Canadian start-up predicted Coronavirus outbreak in China back in December

Sandhya Ramesh - 2 February, 2020

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There’s a new problem ⁠— the term ‘modern humans’ doesn’t cut it any more

Faye Flam - 1 August, 2019

Scientists are pondering whether to differentiate our ancestors as neanderthals, denisovans, etc, or just call them all 'people' as genetics show modern humans aren't that diverse.

Himalayan fossil of adolescent’s jaw may explain how Tibetans, Sherpas master mountains

Sandhya Ramesh - 2 May, 2019

The new finding is the first Denisovan specimen found outside of the Denisova cave in Siberia and is dated at 1.6 lakh years old.

The Neanderthal gift that’s serving us humans well

Sandhya Ramesh - 7 October, 2018

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Neanderthals were no brutes. They were precise workers capable of caring for the weak

Francis Wenban-Smith - 30 September, 2018

New evidence reveals that the Neanderthals were more similar to modern humans in their physical expression than previously thought.

This 73,000-year-old piece of art is changing what it means to be human

Faye Flam - 19 September, 2018

A new discovery is changing the belief that symbolic art is an expression only human beings are capable of.

The story of a very special 90,000-year-old girl

Sandhya Ramesh - 23 August, 2018

The fossil of a 13-year-old found in Siberia reinforces the theory that different subspecies of human predecessors courted each other and interbred often.