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MARCH 18, 2025

This approach circumvents the need for physical fossils, offering a way to reconstruct population history even when no bones or artifacts remain. Over time, this population eventually gave rise to the majority of Homo sapiens ancestry, as well as to Neanderthals and Denisovans. This group shrank to a tiny size before slowly recovering.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2025

For centuries, the study of prehistoric life has relied on the fragile remnants of bones and artifacts. These genetic signatures match the so-called "Fournol cluster" of Gravettian ancestry, suggesting that a distinct population survived in this region through the Last Glacial Maximum. Unraveling Time with Sedimentary DNA No Bones?

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 13, 2024

One horse was found among ritual artifacts, implying ceremonial significance. Tracing Ancestry and Diet Chemical analyses of teeth revealed that some early North American horses were raised locally, while others were part of managed herds fed maize. Librado, P., Hunska Tašunke Icu, M., Shield Chief Gover, C., Arterberry, J.,

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DECEMBER 19, 2024

In 2023, a dramatic claim in Science 1 suggested that human ancestors teetered on the edge of extinction around 900,000 years ago. While this idea captured headlines, a new study published in Genetics 2 challenges the premise, arguing that the bottleneck may be a statistical artifact rather than historical reality. Di Vincenzo, F.,

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