Tag: neanderthal
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PBS Eons: When Neandertals Became Apex Predators
PBS Eons has a new episode. This one is about the Neandertals and how they lived. Climbing to the summit of the Eurasian food chain was one of the Neandertals’ most impressive evolutionary feats, but in the end, it may have actually been what doomed them.
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PBS Eons: What If Neandertals Buried Their Dead?
PBS Eons has a new episode. This one is about the Neanderthals and how they lived… and died. They cared for their sick and disabled, so I feel its not ridiculous to think that they very much buried their dead. They had compassion, surely they wanted to say goodbye to their loved ones and probably…
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PBS Eons: We Met Neandertals Way Earlier Than We Thought
PBS Eons has a new episode. This one is about the missing Neandertal Y chromosome. My cousin did a DNA test the other month and was embarrassed about having a much higher amount of Neandertal DNA than the average European, but I told them about all the cool things I learned about them on this…
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PBS Eons: Why the Paleo Diet Couldn’t Save the Neanderthals
PBS Eons has a new episode. This one is about Neanderthals and their diet and how it ultimately affected their fate. These relatives of ours lived in Eurasia for more than 300,000 years. They were expert toolmakers, using materials like stone, wood, and animal bone. They were also skilled hunters and foragers, and may even…
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PBS Eons: The Neanderthals That Taught Us About Humanity
Checkout the new episode of PBS Eons. It’s about Neanderthals and how they weren’t much different than us. Throughout the first half of the 20th century, Neandertals were thought to have been…primitive. Unintelligent, hunched-over cavemen, for lack of a better word. But the discoveries made in that Iraqi cave provided some of the earliest…
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SciNews: A Greek skull may belong to the oldest human found outside of Africa
SciNews has a story about a skull discovered on Greece’s southern coast in 1978. That skull dates to at least 210,000 years ago. It was encased in a rock that included a Neandertal skull dating to at least 170,000 years ago. If these findings are verified, this skill represents the oldest Homo sapiens fossil outside…
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Neanderthal Fossil From North Sea
From BBC via Geology.com: Part of a Neanderthal man’s skull has been dredged up from the North Sea, in the first confirmed find of its kind. …. Scientists in Leiden, in the Netherlands, have unveiled the specimen – a fragment from the front of a skull belonging to a young adult male. Analysis of chemical…
