Ancient Human Technology

ancient attraction shaped the human genome

Neanderthal males, human females? How ancient attraction shaped the human genome

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia. Genomic research by members of Sarah Tishkoff's lab at the University of Pennsylvania are revisiting a particularly intimate chapter,

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Ancient Coupling May Have Happened More Between Human Females and Neanderthal Males

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Neanderthal males and human females had babies together, ancient DNA reveals

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In prehistoric interbreeding, it was Neanderthal men and Homo sapiens women

When Homo sapiens trekked out of Africa, our species encountered Neanderthal populations already inhabiting the vast expanses of Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

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A genetic analysis reveals new details on ancient couplings between humans and Neanderthals

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We just learned a lot more about Neanderthal-human mating

Vietnam makes scientific strides in decoding ancient human genomes

HANOI: Vietnamese scientists have, for the first time, successfully decoded mitochondrial genomes from ancient human bone samples dating back around 2,000 years, marking a significant breakthrough in genetic and archaeological research.

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Ancient human foot bones shed light on how two species coexisted

The provenance of 3.4-million-year-old foot bones in Ethiopia may have finally been solved – and could prompt a rethink into how our various ancient human ancestors coexisted. In 2009, Yohannes Haile-Selassie at Arizona State University and his ...

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Course Profile: Technology in the Ancient World

On Wednesday, Nov. 5, University of Massachusetts classics lecturer Joseph Wilson took the students in his course, Technology in the Ancient World, to the glassblowing laboratory of Sally Prasch. The laboratory, located in the Lederle Graduate Research ...