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The Ocean Floor Jawbone That’s Redrawing Denisovan History

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Denisovan ancestry and population history of early East Asians. Suggested Related Research Chen, F., A late Middle Pleistocene Denisovan mandible from the Tibetan Plateau. Nature , 569, 409–412. link] Slon, V., The genome of the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father. Nature , 561, 113–116.

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The Genomic Legacy of the Picenes: Unraveling Italy’s Forgotten Civilization

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However, this new genomic study, led by Francesco Ravasini and colleagues, reconstructs the biological history of the Picenes using DNA extracted from 102 ancient individuals spanning over 1,000 years of history. Green gradients show the hypothesized origins of individuals with diverse ancestries in the Central Italic IA.

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The First Europeans: Ancient Genomes Reveal Complex Histories of Human Expansion and Neanderthal Interactions

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Among these pioneers were individuals whose lives and genetic histories have now been reconstructed from the oldest modern human genomes yet sequenced. “This shared Neanderthal ancestry marks a pivotal chapter in the history of modern humans outside Africa,” remarked Johannes Krause, the study’s senior author.

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Neanderthals and Modern Humans: A Shared Past Revealed Through DNA

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By analyzing distinctive genetic markers, researchers quantified this percentage, shedding light on the enduring impact of interbreeding events in human evolutionary history. “Most non-Africans today carry 1-2% Neanderthal ancestry, underscoring the impact of these interactions on the settlement of regions outside Africa.”

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The Fulani Enigma: Unraveling the Deep Genetic History of Africa’s Legendary Pastoralists

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published in The American Journal of Human Genetics 1 , has provided fresh insights into the complex origins of the Fulani, tracing their ancestry back to an ancient, lost world—the Green Sahara. Now, a groundbreaking genetic study by Fortes-Lima et al., But as this study shows, the answer lies much closer to home.

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Gradual Growth: The Evolution of Human Brain Size

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Largest Dataset to Date The researchers analyzed the most extensive dataset of human fossil evidence ever compiled, spanning seven million years of evolutionary history. However, the new study challenges this idea, presenting a more nuanced perspective of incremental growth. Source: Current Anthropology. Source: PNAS.

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Did Gut Microbes Help Fuel the Evolution of Large Human Brains?

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The evolution of the human brain is one of the most remarkable chapters in our species' history. This suggests that the shared trait of having large brains, rather than ancestry, shaped these microbial communities. Brain tissue, one of the most metabolically expensive types, requires a steady and substantial energy supply. Mallott, E.