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Quickies The unprecedented sequencing of a small fraction of the autosomal DNA of Homo heidelbergensis from the Sima de los Huesos of A...

Quickies Just a femur but looks like it. Homo heidelbergensis ( Denisovan )? Darren Curnoe, Xueping Li et al. A Hominin Femur with...

Quickies Flake type tools dated to approx. 118,000 years ago have been found in Sulawesi (Indonesia). They imply that some species of h...

It seems that archaic humans left a small but critical legacy among us: Emilia Huerta Sánchez et al., Altitude adaptation in Tibetans ...

H. heidelbergensis from Atapuerca Cranium 5 "Miguelón" (CC by José Manuel Benito) This has been in the news all around this...

A recent analysis of the nuclear DNA of a Neanderthal toe from Altai has caused widespread interest. Kay Prüffer et al., The complete g...

H. heidelbergensis from Atapuerca Cranium 5 "Miguelón" (CC by José Manuel Benito) About half an hour ago, somewhat cryptic ...

Warning: while the findings are correctly reported for what they are, they seem to be very old news, not from 2008-12 but from 1994-98 (h...

That is the conclusion of the Atapuerca researchers based on the structure of the hyoid bone , a critical part of our sound managing anatom...