A key question in human evolution explores the identity of the first human to leave Africa, and a new study offers fresh ...
A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.
This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...
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The enamel that forms the outer layer of our teeth might seem like an unlikely place to find clues about evolution. But it tells us more than you’d think about the relationships between our fossil ...
UPDATE (11/8/2006): My colleague, Greg Cochran, has a post at GNXP discussing introgression and microcephalin further: If this pans out the way we think it will, introgression from Neanderthals (and ...