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The Neanderthals inhabited a vast geographical area extending from Europe to western Asia and the Middle East 30,000 to 100,000 years ago. Now, a group of researchers are questioning whether or not the Neanderthals constituted a homogenous group or separate sub-groups (between which slight differences could be observed). A new study published April 15 in the online, open-access, peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE may provide some answers.
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The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Leipzig, Germany, and the 454 Life Sciences Corp., in Branford, Conn., will announce on Feb. 12 during the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and at a simultaneous European press briefing that they have completed a first draft version of the Neanderthal genome.
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 | Each year, Jurassic Park seems less like science fiction. Scientists are decoding woolly mammoth DNA. They also are decoding DNA from an extinct species much closer to us in genetic makeup - the Neanderthal. ...> Full Article |
 | Ancient DNA retrieved from the bones of two Neanderthals suggests that at least some of them had red hair and pale skin, scientists report in the journal Science. The international team says that Neanderthals' pigmentation may even have been as varied as that of modern humans, and that at least 1 percent of Neanderthals were likely redheads. ...> Full Article |
A new study reveals that adaptive changes in a human gene involved in speech and language were shared by our closest extinct relatives, the Neandertals. The finding reveals that the human form of the gene arose much earlier than scientists had estimated previously. It also raises the possibility that Neandertals possessed some of the prerequisites for language.
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Were Neanderthals direct ancestors of contemporary humans or an evolutionary side branch that eventually died out?
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 | An team of researchers is working together in Grenoble (France) to study the teeth of some famous fossil children, which will reveal if different species of humans experienced similar timings of maturation and reproduction. ...> Full Article |
 | The mystery of what killed the Neanderthals has moved a step closer to resolution after an international study led by the University of Leeds has ruled out one of the competing theories - catastrophic climate change - as the most likely cause. ...> Full Article |
New radiocarbon analysis dates human skull to 33,000 years ago
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Research challenges myth of primitive and backward species
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Climate – and not modern humans – was the cause of the Neanderthal extinction in the Iberian Peninsula. Such is the conclusion of the University of Granada research group RNM 179 - Mineralogy and Geochemistry of sedimentary and metamorphic environments, headed by professor Miguel Ortega Huertas and whose members Francisco José Jiménez Espejo, Francisca Martínez Ruiz and David Gallego Torres work jointly at the department of Mineralogy and Petrology of the University of Granada (Universidad de Granada) and the Andalusian Regional Institute of Earth Sciences (CSIC-UGR).
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Nature has put a wonderful short set of videos on their web site about the Neanderthal Genome Project. The project, which hopes to decode and publish the Neanderthal Genome, within a couple years, is steadily making progress, and is releasing new information in regular intervals.
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 | For nearly a century, anthropologists have been debating the relationship of Neandertals to modern humans. Central to the debate is whether Neandertals contributed directly or indirectly to the ancestry of the early modern humans that succeeded them. ...> Full Article |
 | Humans continued to evolve significantly long after they were established in Europe, and interbred with Neanderthals as they settled across the continent. ...> Full Article |
Work on the Neanderthal Genome Project is starting to bear fruit as two scientific papers are published in
journals Nature and Science. So far a large portion of the Neanderthal DNA has been assembled. The
Neanderthal, who became extinct 24,000 years ago may be our closest relative.
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Researchers with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the University of Chicago have published a paper
in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that provides circumstantial evidence that humans and
Neanderthals interbred at some point in history.
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 | Scientists in Germany and the US are beginning a groundbreaking study to sequence the DNA of Neandertal fossils.
The project is to be jointly directed by Svante Paabo, director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
and Dr. Michael Eghom, Vice-President of Molecular Biology for 454 Life Sciences. ...> Full Article |
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