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T he map below caught my attention while reading a new article by Zhang et al., 2026 it shows the oldest sites where Homo sapiens remains ...

T oday's post looks into a new paper published a few days ago, on September 25, 2015 in Science, (Xiaobo Feng et al., The phylogenetic p...

A nother species? or maybe a Denisovan? A paper (The Innovation, DOI: 10.1016/j.xinn.2021.100130 and DOI: 10.1016/j.xinn.2021.100132, Mass...

A s you can see, by checking my most recent posts, I have been reading recent articles and papers about Homo sapiens in Eurasia. Another on...

T his paper: Apidima Cave fossils provide earliest evidence of Homo sapiens in Eurasia published in Nature (Katerina Harvati et al., Natur...

A ida Gómez-Robles published a paper in Science Advances three days ago (May 15, 2019 - Dental evolutionary rates and its implications fo...

A paper ( Late Middle Pleistocene hominin teeth from Tongzi, southern China , by Song Xinga, María Martinon-Torres and Jose MariaBermudez ...

E arlier this year, a paper (Kumar Akhilesh et al., Early Middle Palaeolithic culture in India around 385–172 ka reframes Out of Africa mod...

A nd yes, another post on archaic hominin introgression into modern humans in Africa: Yorubans have admixed with an unknown hominin and th...

C ontinuing with the theme of "archaic hominins admixed with modern humans in Africa leading to their current genetic diversity",...

I n a recent post titled African diversity is the result of admixture with archaic hominids I once again supported the notion that Africa...

B elow I quote John Hawks on the importance of the Misliya cave jawbone. His opinion is very interesting. Read his full post here . (See...

F or the last year, more papers have been published suggesting an earlier age for Homo sapiens and an earlier Out of Africa migration. Toda...

F ollowing up on my previous post, I want to share some more papers on the subject of the admixture of Homo sapiens and archaic hominins i...

A paper published in Nature , by Cosimo Posth et al, published in Nature looks into the odd discrepancy in the age of the split between M...

R egarding my previous post where I mentioned a paper on the non-African origin of modern humans, I have come across another very interest...

A very interesting paper by Liu, W. et al. in Nature The earliest unequivocally modern humans in southern China http://dx.doi.org/10.103...

A paper published in Nature today, " The diverse origins of the human gene pool " by Svante Pääbo (Nature Reviews Genetics 16, ...

T he journal Nature informs about a DNA analysis done to a jawbone found in a cave in Romania which could indicate a very recent admixtur...

F irst of all, my best wishes for 2015!. Today I read an article that led me to a paper ( Hominin teeth from the early Late Pleistocene ...