Tag: hominins
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PBS Eons: Our Most Mysterious Extinct Cousins
There's a new episode of PBS Eons. Paranthropus robustus and related species lived and evolved along side of us around 1 – 2 million years ago. What happened to them? There was a group of hominins, those creatures more closely related to us than to chimpanzees, that did take a different, parallel journey from our…
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Morning Person? You Might Have Neanderthal Genes to Thank
Javier Trueba/MSF, via Science Source Carl Zimmer has an interesting article about genetics over on his Origins column at the New York Times. A recent paper in the journal Genome Biology and Evolution derails generic research that suggests some of our circadian traits might come from Neanderthal genes. Modern humans and the ancient humans that…
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PBS Eons: When Hobbits Were Real
A new episode of PBS Eons is out. And, this one is about Homo floresiensis, otherwise known as the “hobbit”. Its discoverers named it Homo floresiensis, but it’s often called “the hobbit” for its short stature and oddly proportioned feet. And it’s been at the center of a major controversy in the field ever…
