Nobel Prize winner, Svante Pääbo, is investigating genetic changes that could have given our species a competitive advantage, and the possibility of extracting the genome of the Flores hobbit ~science anthropology Article 2020 words 8 votes
How rediscovering Neanderthals primed us for the search for extraterrestrial life ~science archaeology Article 3647 words, published Feb 15 2022 3 votes
Ancient Beat - A weekly newsletter about developments in the study of the ancient world ~humanities.history Article 896 words 9 votes
Svante Pääbo deserves his accolade – palaeogenetics is an expanding field that tells us who we are ~science anthropology Article 948 words 5 votes
Swedish researcher Svante Pääbo has won this year's Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his research into how human beings evolved ~science anthropology Article 446 words 12 votes
Five ice-age mammoths unearthed in Cotswolds after 220,000 years ~science biology.evolutionary archaeology Article 1021 words 9 votes
Ancient girl's parents were two different human species ~science anthropology Article 1064 words 16 votes