Tooth of an Ancient Girl Fills Gap in Human Family Tree (Published 2022)
A tooth found inside of a mountain cave in Laos has solved one of the biggest scientific mysteries of the Denisovans, a branch of ancient humans that disappeared roughly 50,000 years ago. Since 2010, when Denisovan teeth and finger bones were first discovered, DNA testing has revealed that the enigmatic hominins were among the ancestors of people alive today in Australia and the Pacific. But scien
Discovery of ‘Dragon Man’ Skull in China May Add Species to Human Family Tree (Published 2021)
Scientists on Friday announced that a massive fossilized skull that is at least 140,000 years old is a new species of ancient human, a finding that could potentially change prevailing views of how — and even where — our species, Homo sapiens, evolved. The skull belonged to a mature male who had a huge brain, massive brow ridges, deep set eyes and a bulbous nose. It had remained hidden in an abando
How Did Aboriginal Australians Arrive on the Continent? DNA Helps Solve a Mystery (Published 2017)
How Did Aboriginal Australians Arrive on the Continent? DNA Helps Solve a Mystery A study found that all living Aboriginal Australians descend from a single founding population that arrived about 50,000 years ago.Credit...P.C. Poulsen/Hulton Archive, via Getty Images Human skeletons and archaeological remains in Australia can be traced back nearly 50,000 years before the trail disappears. Before t
A Single Migration From Africa Populated the World, Studies Find (Published 2016)
The KhoiSan, hunter-gatherers living today in southern Africa, above, are among hundreds of indigenous people whose genetic makeup has provided new clues to human prehistory.Credit...Eric Laforgue/Gamma-Rapho, via Getty Images Modern humans evolved in Africa roughly 200,000 years ago. But how did our species go on to populate the rest of the globe? The question, one of the biggest in studies of hu
DNA of Ancient Children Offers Clues on How People Settled the Americas (Published 2015)
Ben A. Potter, left, and Joshua D. Reuther of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, at the Upward Sun River site where the discovery of a pair of children in a ceremonial grave offered glimpses at the history of the first Americans.Credit...Ben A. Potter/University of Alaska Fairbanks Researchers have long wondered how people settled the Americas, particularly the path they took to the new territor
DNA Deciphers Roots of Modern Europeans (Published 2015)
A male skeleton associated with the Yamnaya culture near Samara, Russia.Credit...Pavel Kuznetsov For centuries, archaeologists have reconstructed the early history of Europe by digging up ancient settlements and examining the items that their inhabitants left behind. More recently, researchers have been scrutinizing something even more revealing than pots, chariots and swords: DNA. On Wednesday in
A New Theory on How Neanderthal DNA Spread in Asia (Published 2015)
Chinese passengers wait on a train platform at the Beijing Railway Station. Researchers have discovered that Neanderthals interbred with the ancestors of Asians at two points in history, giving this population an extra infusion of Neanderthal DNA.Credit...European Pressphoto Agency In 2010, scientists made a startling discovery about our past: About 50,000 years ago, Neanderthals interbred with th
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Scientists Find Arm Bone of Ancient ‘Hobbit’ Human
Neanderthals Listened to the World Much Like Us (Published 2021)
Ancient DNA from West Africa Adds to Picture of Humans’ Rise (Published 2020)
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Archaeologists in China Discover the Oldest Stone Tools Outside Africa (Published 2018)
The Great Breakup: The First Arrivals to the Americas Split Into Two Groups (Published 2018)
David Reich Unearths Human History Etched in Bone - The New York Times
Skull Fossil Offers New Clues on Human Journey From Africa (Published 2015)
Neanderthals in Europe Died Out Thousands of Years Sooner Than Some Thought, Study Says (Published 2014)