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Climate ChangeAll contemporary Eurasians trace most of their ancestry to a small population that dispersed out of Africa about 50,000 years ago (ka)1–9. By contrast, fossil evidence attests to earlier migrations out of Africa10–15. These lines of evidence can only be reconciled if early dispersals made little to no genetic contribution to the later, major wave. A key question therefore concerns what factors facilitated the successful later dispersal that led …See the Story
Major Expansion in the Human Niche Preceded Out of Africa Dispersal
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NeanderthalsTens of thousands of years ago, during the Pleistocene epoch, Neanderthals trekked more than 2,000 miles on foot from the Caucasus Mountains in Eastern Europe to a chain of caves in the Altai Mountains of Siberia. The journey likely took them just 2,000 years, a new study finds, a relative sprint considering the many major obstacles in their way: dramatic mountain ranges, massive rivers, and potentially hostile evolutionary cousins.
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How Neanderthals Got to Siberia
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How the Neanderthals Disappeared: A New and Controversial Theory
The First Europeans, Homo Forerunner and Neanderthals, Campaign Challenges in Atapuerca by 2025
An Unexpected Twist in Neanderthal History: Was the Cosmos Your Executioner?
The Genome of the Offspring of a Neanderthal Mother and a Denisovan Father
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