Your ancestral history might be a lot more interesting than you think. Here’s what makes us human… and part Neanderthal.
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Neanderthals Were Building Complex Cave Structures Much Longer Ago Than We Thought
“Ancient piles of broken stalagmites found deep inside a cave in France were made by Neanderthals about 176,000 years ago, way before modern humans were around. This is the first time archaeologists have concluded that our cousins ventured underground and built complex constructions.”
Neanderthals: Facts About Our Extinct Human Relatives
“Neanderthals (or Neandertals) are our closest extinct human relatives. There is some debate as to whether they were a distinct species of the Homogenus (Homo neanderthalensis) or a subspecies of Homo sapiens. Our well-known, but often misunderstood, fossil kin lived in Eurasia 200,000 to 30,000 years ago, in the Pleistocene Epoch.”
Oldest Ancient-Human DNA Details Dawn Of Neanderthals
“In decoding just 0.1% of the genome of the oldest DNA ever recovered from an ancient human, the molecular biologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, threw out enough raw data to map the modern human genome dozens of times over.”
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