Newly Discovered Bones Show Genetic Mix of Ancient Human Relatives Scientists say they have discovered the remains of an ancient female whose mother was a Neanderthal and whose father was Denisovan. Neanderthals and Denisovans are early human species

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You might picture Neanderthal cavemen gnaw on bones around campfire. Which wouldnt be inaccurate. But Neanderthal mayhave also dieted on roasted vegetables and known a bit about medicinal plants,too. So says a study in a journal N, the science of nat

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Neanderthals Were Sophisticated We modern humans tend to look down on our ancient Neanderthal cousins. In our imagination, Neanderthals were brutish, cave dwelling lunks who couldnt hack it once we left Africa and set up shop in Neanderthal territory

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How Neanderthals Fought Disease Every year people are encouraged to get their annual flu shots. Signs are posted at drug stores and clinics. Get your shots here. Modern preventive medicine has saved millions of lives. But you may be surprised to hear

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These were our ancestors who may have already been using stones as tools more than 150,000 years ago. 这是我们的祖先,他们也许在15万年前就已经开始用石头当工具了。 They were very different from the Neanderthal people who a

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Modern human babies are essentially learning machines. After birth, their brains grow in leaps and bounds, allowing infants to lay the groundwork for fut

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By David McAlary Washington 15 November 2006 Examination of a bone fragment from our long extinct relatives, the Neanderthals, has yielded unprecedented genetic information about their mysterious relationship to modern humans. It shows that both hum

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Furthermore, the fossil had Neanderthal mitochondrial DNA. This is passed from mother to child, 此外,化石中有尼安德塔线粒体DNA。这是从母亲基因中遗传下来的, which meant that either the teenager was the daughter of a Deni

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Set aside romantic sentiment. Sex is a biological insurance policy. 除了浪漫调情,性也是一份生物保险单。 By chaotically mixing their genetic information, animals generate extraordinary diversity. 通过将基因信息杂乱混合,动

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