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Study: Archeologists find remains of human-Neanderthal hybrid
Researchers believe they have pinpointed the skeletal remains of the first known human-Neanderthal hybrid, according to a study published Wednesday in the peer reviewed scientific journal PLoS ONE. The finding comes from northern Italy, where some 40,000 years ago scientists believe Neanderthals and humans lived near each other, but developed separate…
Study suggests Neanderthals and modern humans never crossed paths
A new study has thrown a wrench into the theory that modern humans interacted and mated with Neanderthals after placing the extinction of the latter species much earlier than earlier findings. According to the Associated Press, the study by a team of Australian and European researchers, published Monday in the…
Harvard scientist seeks ‘adventurous female’ to give birth to cloned Neanderthal
Professor George Church not only believes that he can clone a Neanderthal, but that a extremely adventurous female human” would be able to give birth to one. According to The Daily Mail, Church, a geneticist and professor of synthetic biology at Harvard University, said he can use fossil samples to…
Man made stone tools thousands of years earlier than previously thought
Paleontologists said Wednesday they have found small blades in a South African cave proving that Man was an advanced thinker making stone tools 71,000 years ago — millennia earlier than thought. The find suggests early humans from Africa had a capacity for complex thought and weapons production that gave them…
Study casts doubt on human-Neanderthal interbreeding theory
When scientists discovered a few years ago that modern humans shared swaths of DNA with long-extinct Neanderthals, their best explanation was that at some point the two species must have interbred. Now a study by scientists at the University of Cambridge has questioned this conclusion, hypothesising instead that the DNA…
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