Earlier mixture from modern humans into Neandertal populations
The Neandertal storyline for the period from 70,000 to 40,000 years ago is increasingly a story of unremitting introgression from Neandertals into other popu...
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A new high-coverage Neandertal genome
Today, Svante Pääbo’s group at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology released high-coverage sequence data from a toe bone from Denisova Cave...
Was the first dog from the Altaian Upper Paleolithic?
A new paper by Anna Druzhkova and colleagues examines the ancient mtDNA sequence of a putative 33,000-year-old dog from Razboinichya Cave in the Altai region...
When and where was proto-Indo-European?
A new study by Remco Bouckaert and colleagues attempts to place the origin of Indo-European languages by using an epidemiological population model, essential...
Ice maiden returns
The Siberian Times is running a long, detailed story on the return of the Ukok Princess, or “Ice Maiden” to the Altai Republic: “Siberian princess reveals he...
The anthropologist and the kurgans
There are many stories from my travels last summer that I haven’t yet told here. I’ve been thinking that I need to get them written down, so that I’ll have m...