Anthropology

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Researchers have shown that many genes which appeared in the Eurasian people of the modern type as a result of interbreeding with the Neanderthals, who once were present in early Homo sapiens, but were lost in the common ancestor of Read more

Scientists have found that two sides of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict — Israeli Jews and Palestine living in the Gaza strip and the West Bank — according to the different perceptions of the concept of peace. And those and others about Read more

Researchers from the United States proposed to use data on the lipid composition of coprolites (fossilized feces) to determine which species visited a number of American caves thousands of years ago, reported in Science Advances. Using this method, scientists have Read more

Archaeologists have found evidence that in the area of modern Northern Kazakhstan horses were domesticated early in the second Millennium BC. Novoilyinsky found in the mounds are the remains of animals suggests that they were used for riding and were Read more

German andn scientists have sequenced the Neanderthal genome from the Siberian cave Chagyrskaya, reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. You get DNA from a finger, was found in 2011. The quality of coverage for the genome Read more

Austrian scientists found that most of the portraits painted in profile space in front of the depicted character more than him. It concerns portraits by European artists, written in the XV–XX centuries: from 1831 portraits on 1395 distance from the Read more

Mathematics counted the proportions that Leonardo da Vinci used in the “Vitruvian man”, for modern men and women. In General, the proportions close, but the hands and feet of people of the XXI century turned out to be longer than Read more

A thick beard appeared in men, probably to protect the lower jaw from fractures, and write in Integrative Organismal Biology. This is indicated by the results of experiments on models of the jaws with the hair on them. Samples with Read more

The population of people who became the ancestors of the native Americans, formed not later than 14 thousand years ago near lake Baikal in the result of a long mixing of ancient Siberian and far Eastern populations. An article about Read more