Rethinking neandertals

A Nowell - Annual Review of Anthropology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
In this article, I first provide an overview of the Neandertals by recounting their initial
discovery and subsequent interpretation by scientists and by discussing our current …

[HTML][HTML] The late persistence of the Middle Palaeolithic and Neandertals in Iberia: A review of the evidence for and against the “Ebro Frontier” model

J Zilhão - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract In the Franco-Cantabrian region and Catalonia, the Upper Palaeolithic begins with
three assemblage-types found in stratigraphic order through the interval between 45,000 …

Homo sapiens reached the higher latitudes of Europe by 45,000 years ago

D Mylopotamitaki, M Weiss, H Fewlass, EI Zavala… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Europe is associated with the
regional disappearance of Neanderthals and the spread of Homo sapiens. Late …

The ROCEEH Out of Africa Database (ROAD): A large-scale research database serves as an indispensable tool for human evolutionary studies

AW Kandel, C Sommer, Z Kanaeva, M Bolus… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Large scale databases are critical for helping scientists decipher long-term patterns in
human evolution. This paper describes the conception and development of such a research …

[HTML][HTML] Long genetic and social isolation in Neanderthals before their extinction

L Slimak, T Vimala, A Seguin-Orlando, L Metz… - Cell genomics, 2024 - cell.com
Neanderthal genomes have been recovered from sites across Eurasia, painting an
increasingly complex picture of their populations' structure that mostly indicates that late …

Optimal linear estimation models predict 1400–2900 years of overlap between Homo sapiens and Neandertals prior to their disappearance from France and northern …

I Djakovic, A Key, M Soressi - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Recent fossil discoveries suggest that Neandertals and Homo sapiens may have co-existed
in Europe for as long as 5 to 6000 years. Yet, evidence for their contemporaneity at any …

[HTML][HTML] The earliest unambiguous neanderthal engravings on cave walls: La Roche-Cotard, Loire Valley, France

JC Marquet, TH Freiesleben, KJ Thomsen, AS Murray… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Here we report on Neanderthal engravings on a cave wall at La Roche-Cotard (LRC) in
central France, made more than 57±3 thousand years ago. Following human occupation …

Merging morphological and genetic evidence to assess hybridization in Western Eurasian late Pleistocene hominins

K Harvati, RR Ackermann - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2022 - nature.com
Previous scientific consensus saw human evolution as defined by adaptive differences
(behavioural and/or biological) and the emergence of Homo sapiens as the ultimate …

Environmental conditions associated with initial northern expansion of anatomically modern humans

F Saltré, J Chadœuf, T Higham, M Ochocki… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The ability of our ancestors to switch food sources and to migrate to more favourable
environments enabled the rapid global expansion of anatomically modern humans beyond …

Cave microbes as a potential source of drugs development in the modern era

S Zada, W Sajjad, M Rafiq, S Ali, Z Hu, H Wang, R Cai - Microbial ecology, 2021 - Springer
The world is constantly facing threats, including the emergence of new pathogens and
antibiotic resistance among extant pathogens, which is a matter of concern. Therefore, the …