The Krapina 58 mandible has a rotated left premolar, a trait found in a curiously high fraction of this large Neandertal sample. It may reflect the genetics of this local population

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📚 AO, petit Neandertal - Claire Troilo & Emmanuel Roudier

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For more than 100 years, the remains of a Neandertal child lay unrecognized in Belgium after being unearthed in 1829. Much of the child's context was lost in excavation, but today Engis 2 is crucial evidence about growth and development in

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The perils of understanding extinct populations with morphology are front and center with the Arago sample. Were they early Neandertals, or something else? My guess is a mosaic of drift in ancient Eurasian populations.

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Was burial of the dead practiced by Neandertals or is it an innovation to our species?
There are indications in favour of the first hypothesis:
Recent evidences of a neanderthal child buried 41000 years ago in Dordogne France: https://t.co/QvF0xQ7TDj
Image: anibal/stock.adobe.com

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La Ferrassie 8

-Hurrengo asteazkenean informazio berria neandertal honi buruz
-Come wednesday, new information about this individual
-El próximo miércoles, nuevos datos sobre este neandertal

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Esta semana he actualizado el blog con dos nuevas traducciones de
Charla de Steven Erikson con lectores sobre Polvo de sueños▶️ https://t.co/SiWA3xtVlv
Neandertales, el mundo malazano y el tiempo profundo, ensayo de Erikson▶️ https://t.co/ZP9fCNeD0t

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My talk on the peopling of western Eurasia by Homo populations and their interactions with local given at the last meeting is now on line via : https://t.co/u4CEaIv2iK

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Los neandertales y otras muchas variedades humanas extintas confeccionaban piezas laboriosas y planificadas de artesanía, y es lógico pensar que valoraran tanto su función como el esfuerzo invertido, y que los artesanos las usaran como marca de habilidad o identidad. A partir... https://t.co/vns9X8HFKS

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Sometime between 370-150,000 years ago Neandertals got a Y chromosome from a more modern-like source population. This ultimately spread throughout all later Neandertal populations from which anyone has sampled DNA.

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Un chiste para hacer pensar sobre el egoísmo y falta de responsabilidad de quien decide no usar mascarilla y hasta tomarse a broma las medidas de contención de la pandemia. Pero recurre a la visión muy obsoleta de los neandertales como humanos inferiores, toscos, etc. HT

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o que foi que eu fiz pq eu to rindo desse neandertal

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Neandertals on the beach: Use of marine resources at Grotta dei Moscerini (Latium, Italy)

Villa P. et al. via journals.plos
https://t.co/LLMiQv7QHJ

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Spent much of 2019 thinking about and trying to rebuild Neandertal brain endocasts with my students. Hoping for more of that in 2020!

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Santa Claus/Saint Nicholas = An evolved folk memory of surviving Euroasian Neandertals ~~> Wild People / Wild Men. ~

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Recreación de un neandertal. Crédito: Graham Ford

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Endocranial shape Neandertals v. Modern Humans: A=Nea, La Chapelle-aux-Saints, elongated. B=MH, globular. Arrows=enlarged posterior cranial fossa (housing the cerebellum) & bulging of parietal bones in MHs compared to Nea. Source: Gunz et al (2019) https://t.co/TrdnMd91he

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