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Neanderthal Gene Still Shapes Muscle and Jaws in Some Living Humans

Velazquez-Arcelay et al. found that genetic material from Neanderthal ancestors may have contributed to the propensity of some people today to be early risers, the sort of people who are more comfortable getting up and going to bed earlier. Image credit: Holger Neumann / Neanderthal Museum.

Neanderthals vanished roughly 42,000 years ago, but a piece of their biology appears to be quietly at work in some people today, according to a new study led by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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Scientists Find Traces of Two Unknown Archaic Hominins in Human DNA

An archaic hominin. Image credit: Ninara / CC BY 2.0.

New research led by the University of California, Berkeley reveals that beyond Neanderthals and Denisovans, humans interbred with two mysterious β€˜ghost’ lineages: one in Africa more than 50,000 years ago, another in Eurasia over 1.7 million years ago.

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Stone Tools from Armenian Cave Reveal Split Strategy for Survival 50,000 Years Ago

A look at Ararat-1 Cave from the bottom of the Ararat Depression. Image credit: Ariel Malinsky Buller.

Ararat-1, a modest limestone cave that lies at an elevation of 1,034 m on the eastern flanks of the Ararat Depression in central Armenia, has yielded a striking puzzle about how Middle Paleolithic humans moved across their landscape.

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Ancient Turkish Cave Reveals Neanderthals and Homo sapiens Shared Same Way of Life

A group of Neanderthals in a cave. Image credit: Tyler B. Tretsven.

ÜçağızlΔ± II Cave on TΓΌrkiye’s Mediterranean coast has yielded a rare and detailed record of two Homo species living the same way of life, one after the other, over more than 20,000 years, offering new evidence that the transition from Neanderthals to modern humans in the region was far more culturally seamless than previously understood.

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Trump’s FEMA Nominee Calls Staff Cuts a β€˜Challenge’ for Disaster Agency

Cameron Hamilton, who briefly led the agency on an acting basis last year but was fired for contradicting the president, also said he would get money out to states faster.

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Cameron Hamilton, President Trump’s FEMA nominee, testifying before the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday.
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