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Study of genes modern humans gave Neanderthals helps explain their end.
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Extinción Biológica , Hombre de Neandertal , Animales , Humanos , Fósiles , Hombre de Neandertal/genética , ADN AntiguoRESUMEN
200,000-year-old DNA shows our now-extinct cousins mated with Neanderthals.
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ADN Antiguo , Genoma Humano , Hombre de Neandertal , Animales , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Fósiles , Hombre de Neandertal/genética , SiberiaRESUMEN
Fifty years after her discovery, the 3.2-million-year-old fossil still reigns as mother of us all. But she now has rivals.
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Recognition ability rivals all other animals, including humans.
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Reconocimiento Facial , Pan troglodytes , Reconocimiento en Psicología , Animales , Humanos , Amigos , Pan troglodytes/psicologíaRESUMEN
Anthropologists hail new Homo naledi fossils but doubt spectacular claims of intentional burial and art.
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Arte , Evolución Biológica , Entierro , Hominidae , Animales , Humanos , Arte/historia , Entierro/historia , FósilesRESUMEN
Pioneering technique gleans DNA from a Stone Age ornament, revealing its last wearer.
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ADN Antiguo , Animales , Femenino , Humanos , Ciervos , ADN Antiguo/aislamiento & purificaciónRESUMEN
Two yeast strains mixed in a German brewing cellar 400 years ago.
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Cerveza , Fermentación , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/genéticaRESUMEN
Oldest Oldowan tools-seen as a hallmark of our own genus-found with bones of an unexpected hominin.
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Evolución Biológica , Hominidae , Paleontología , Animales , Humanos , Huesos , Fósiles , Hominidae/genéticaRESUMEN
Study of DNA from medieval victims and survivors finds gene that helped protect people from deadly pathogen.
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Inmunidad , Pandemias , Peste , Selección Genética , Humanos , Sistema Inmunológico , Peste/genética , Peste/historia , Peste/inmunología , Inmunidad/genética , Pandemias/historia , ADN AntiguoRESUMEN
Graves in Kyrgyzstan hold early victims of plague that swept medieval Europe.
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Epidemias , Peste , Yersinia pestis , Entierro/historia , ADN Antiguo , Epidemias/historia , Historia Medieval , Humanos , Kirguistán/epidemiología , Peste/epidemiología , Peste/historia , Yersinia pestis/aislamiento & purificaciónRESUMEN
Migrants from the south may have helped spread early farming in Central America, ancient DNA suggests.
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Evolutionary anthropologist Herman Pontzer busts myths about how humans burn calories-and why.