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'Major disruption in Neanderthal history': 65,000 years ago, all Neanderthals in Europe died out except for one lineageThe last Neanderthals to survive in Europe came from a single lineage that survived the worst period of the ice age, ancient DNA reveals.
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2 Neanderthals present at same Siberian cave 10,000 years apart were distant relatives, 110,000-year-old bone revealsResearchers extracted DNA from a Neanderthal bone fragment found in Russia's Denisova Cave, and the genome is shedding light on how small and isolated their groups were.
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18 million-year-old fossils of ape found in Africa, but in an unexpected placeThe ancestor of apes was long thought to come from East Africa, but newly discovered fossils in Egypt may prompt a rethink.
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'That's why there's 9 billion of us and not 9 billion of some other primate': Why our ability to adapt is humanity's 'superpower'INTERVIEW Live Science spoke with Herman Pontzer, an evolutionary anthropologist and author of the book "Adaptable," about the science of human diversity.
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Why are humans the only species with a chin?Potential explanations abound, yet recent research has shed new light on the question.
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Humans and Neanderthals interbred — but it was mostly male Neanderthals and female humans who coupled up, study findsA preference for pairings between male Neanderthals and female Homo sapiens may answer the question of why there are "Neanderthal deserts" in human chromosomes.
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'Absolute surprise': Homo erectus skulls found in China are almost 1.8 million years old — the oldest evidence of the ancient human relatives in East AsiaA new date for Homo erectus skulls found in central China provides new insight into how and when ancient human relatives reached eastern Asia.
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Research group claims preeclampsia doomed the Neanderthals, but experts say it's just a 'thought experiment'Preeclampsia, a complication of pregnancy that involves high blood pressure, could have led to a decline in Neanderthals' fertility, a new study suggests.
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What are ghost lineages, remnants of the past that still exist in our DNA today?Ghost lineages reveal themselves through ancient genes that still exist in living beings today.
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