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Modern humans evolved from an 80-20 mixture of two deep streams
Skulls from Herto (left) and Bodo (right), Ethiopia, may be connected with the ancestral stems. Images: Sailko (Wikimedia Commons)Around a decade ago, I was working to understand the deep population history of Africa from genomes of living people. I was j
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Legs of the last Denisovans
Two new Denisovan fossils have emerged from the seafloor of the Penghu Strait, near Taiwan. The fossils, a partial femur (Penghu 2) and tibia (Penghu 3), belong to two different individuals and were first identified as hominin in 2010, found among fossils
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How Neanderthal ancestry affects growth and muscle
Reconstructed skeleton of a Neanderthal based on a model by Chapman and coworkers, and a modern human skeleton based on the Bodyparts3D model by Mitsuhashi and coworkers.Some of the regular occurrences in my inbox are messages from women who think their h
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The big feet of Paranthropus boisei
A footprint from GaJi10 that may belong to P. boisei, showing a divergent big toe and shallow arch. Image: Kevin Hatala and coworkers (2026, CC-BY-NC-ND)A couple of years ago I wrote about footprints attributed to Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei from
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Traces of insect DNA in dental calculus may reveal bug-eating past
The Krapina J mandible, with its premolars, first and second molars encrusted with some of the thickest calculus I've seen in any hominin. I'm fascinated today reading a recent article about insect-eating and ancient dental calculus. The study, by Manuel
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