#Neanderthal

Source: Atlas Obscura Looking at these bones can be a bit unsettling, and not just because they’re remnants of an extinct species of archaic humans. What’s most disturbing about these Neanderthal bone fragments is that they belonged to individuals who were the victim of cannibalism. Top… Click

Author: Science News Staff / Source: Science News In “With its burning grip, shingles can do lasting damage” (SN: 3/2/19, p. 22), Aimee Cunningham described the experience of Nora Fox, a woman whose bout with shingles nearly 15 years ago left her with a painful condition called postherpetic

Author: Natasha Tayab / Source: Neatorama It’s often assumed that Neanderthals were pretty dumb, with Anthropologist’s initial perceptions being that one’s intelligence is assessed by skull shape. Is this really the case though? However, new discoveries may help change that perception once and

Author: Exuperist / Source: Neatorama Much mystery still surrounds Denisova cave, where bone fragments from a hominin whom archaeologists called Denny were found. From that finding, they gleaned that Neanderthals and Denisovans had mingled, interacted, and interbred to produce mixed offspring.

Author: Science News Staff / Source: Science News Scientists have long thought that children inherit mitochondria — tiny energy factories found in cells — from only their mothers. But data from three unrelated families suggest that in rare cases children can also inherit mitochondria from their