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On the origins of our species

Posted on July 13, 2016 by twilightbeasts

As families go ours is pretty amazing. You have ancient cousins who effortlessly chomped through the toughest of roots and hardest of seeds. Another relative was the first of our family to make it all the way to China around … Continue reading →

Posted in Denisovan, Homo sapiens, Neanderthal | Tagged Anatomically Modern Humans, Australopithecus africanus, Back to Africa, Candelabra, Charles Darwin, Denisova, Ernst Haeckel, Eugène Dubois, Herto Skulls, Hominidae, Homo erectus, Homo floresiensis, Homo neanderthalensis, Homo sapiens, Jan Freedman, Java Man, Lucy van Dorp, Multiregional origin, Neanderthal, Omo fossils, Origin of Species, Out of Africa, Paranthropus boisei, Qafzeh hominins, Raymond Dart, Recent African Origin, Richard Leakey, Skhul hominins, The Decent of Man | 9 Comments

Who were the Denisovans anyway?

Posted on April 29, 2015 by twilightbeasts

Human evolution used to be the preserve of two groups of academics: the ones who liked fossils and the ones who liked stone tools. Both regarded the other as peculiar for being obsessed with the wrong part of a massive … Continue reading →

Posted in Denisovan | Tagged Denisovan, DNA, Homo sapiens, Max Planck Institute, mitochondrial DNA, Neanderthal, Palaeogenomics, Species X, Svante Pääbo | 11 Comments

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