Australia
A hard ceiling on modern human dispersal
Neandertal DNA in some of the oldest modern human genomes establishes a short timeline of 50,000 years for the out-of-Africa founder event.
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Top 10 discoveries about ancient people from DNA in 2023
This year's highlights include ways of finding ancient relatives, how some phenotypes evolved in ancient people, and trace evidence from artifacts.
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Recounting the repatriation of aboriginal remains from Lake Mungo
Reacting to a feature article from Smithsonian magazine that followed the reburial of a 42,000-year-old human skeleton.