Tag Archives: Homo Erectus

World’s Oldest Art Identified in Half-Million-Year-Old Zigzag

Posted on December 3, 2014 by

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 →

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Neanderthals’ Genetic Legacy | HMS

Posted on January 29, 2014 by

“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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