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Tag Archives: Neandertal
Three papers: January 13-19, 2019
Three papers that caught my attention this week in the world of human evolution: * “Limits of long-term selection against Neandertal introgression.” Petr Martin, Svante Pääbo, Janet Kelso, and Benjamin Vernot It is now well-established the early “modern” humans (that … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Evolution, Fossils, Genetics
Tagged admixture, morphology, Neandertal, sediba
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The importance of 300,000 year old cave bear mtDNA
A just released paper in PNAS that reconstructs the mitochondrial DNA of a >300,000 year old cave bear lineage is getting some attention…and for good reason (Dabney, et al., 2013). You might wonder who cares about ancient cave bear lineages … Continue reading
Posted in Fossils, Genetics
Tagged aDNA, Ancient DNA, Atapuerca, cave bear, Denisova, Neandertal, sima de los huesos
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Good advice
Given the recent chatter about reviving Neandertals, I think this is sage advice:
Population replacements and founder effects in humans
TREE has an article in press looking at the impact of founder events on subsequent patterns of genetic diversity. The main argument of the paper, co-authored by Waters, Fraser & Hewitt (Founder takes all: density-dependent processes structure biodiversity), is that … Continue reading
Posted in Demography, Evolution, Genetics
Tagged Europe, extinction, Late Pleistocene, Neandertal, population change, replacement
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Thinking about fire in the fossil record
One of the items in my backlog of “want to blog about” topics is a recent paper by Francesco Berna and colleagues on evidence for fire dating to one million years ago from the South African cave site of Wonderwerk. … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Evolution
Tagged fire, lower paleolithic, Neandertal, South Africa, Wonderwerk
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Cooking, fire and food
It is only fitting on the heels of Thanksgiving to have a little discussion of cooking, fire and food. Dennis Sandgathe and colleagues have a paper in Paleoanthropology reviewing the evidence for fire-control in Western European Neandertals. In the article, … Continue reading
Posted in Energetics, Evolution, Food
Tagged cooking, fire, Middle Paleolithic, Neandertal
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Svante Pääbo at the Society of Neuroscience Meetings
Carl Zimmer, writing at Discover, has a great piece on Svante Pääbo talking about Neandertals at a major neuroscience conference. Although I don’t agree with all of Zimmer’s characterizations, the piece is a nice primer on what we have learned … Continue reading
Posted in Fossils, Genetics
Tagged Neandertal, Paabo
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