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The first molecular data from Homo naledi

Skulls of Homo naledi. Image: John Hawks

It is great to be able to share some of our team’s research on the proteome of Homo naledi, published today in Cell. The study is the largest examination of protein data from any sample of an extinc...

20 days ago
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How many Denisovan ancestors?

Denisova Cave. Image: John Hawks

Evolution is a story of events in the past. It is full of characters and interactions between them and environments. At the same time, evolution provides a way of thinking about biological mechanisms. The s...

25 days ago
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The ancient mixture in cave lion genomes

Cave lions illustrated by the artists of Chauvet Cave. Photo of a replica in the Anthropos museum, Brno, by HTO (Wikimedia Commons)

Cave lions mostly didn’t live in caves. They’re like their human contemporaries, the Neanderthals, that way...

a month ago
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Rethinking Homo erectus and Denisovans with ancient proteins

A premolar attributed to Homo erectus from Longtan Cave, Hexian, China. Image: Song Xing and coworkers (2014, CC-BY)

The headlines this week are that scientists have obtained protein data from Homo erectus teeth, showing a link between thi...

2 months ago
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A new age for ‘Ubeidiya

Sunset over the Paleolithic ‘Ubeidiya site. The trenches within the grassy area in the foreground are results of archaeological excavations that began in the 1960s. Image: Omry Barzilai, Israel Antiquities Authority

‘Ubeidiya is a prehisto...

2 months ago
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