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Tag Archives: Homo Erectus
World’s Oldest Art Identified in Half-Million-Year-Old Zigzag
I’ve noted before that I think capabilities like human language didn’t pop into being 50-75 thousand years ago, but developed over hundreds of thousands of years (if not millions). Well, it looks like another piece of behavioral modernity may predate … Continue reading
Neanderthals’ Genetic Legacy | HMS
“This suggests that when ancient humans met and mixed with Neanderthals, the two species were at the edge of biological incompatibility,” said Reich, who is also a senior associate member of the Broad Institute and an investigator at the Howard … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, Broad Institute, DNA, Homo Erectus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Neanderthal, Neanderthal DNA, Neanderthals, Reich, species
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