Mysterious Ancient Tomb And A Strange Vanishing In France – DNA Failed To Solve The Riddle?
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – It is time for a historical mystery today. We delve into an intriguing ancient mystery that unfolds in the heart of ancient France. It is a riveting tale involving dramatic historical events, a cryptic tomb, and a mysteriously concealed jar. The perplexing case of a sudden vanishing, coupled with the […]
Ancient DNA Reveals How People Migrated During The Roman Empire
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Ruled by many Emperors, the mighty and vast Roman Empire covered territories that included Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia. Established in 27 B.C. following the demise of the Roman Republic, the first Roman Emperor, August, opened a new and everlasting chapter in the history of Rome and everyone who […]
DNA Study Sheds New Light On The Ancient Teotihuacans
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – One of the most intriguing archaeological pre-Columbian sites is Teotihuacán, which scientists still know relatively little about. Who were the people who built and lived in Teotihuacán? Established in the northeastern Basin of Mexico, Teotihuacán “was first inhabited in about 150 BC, but the first ceremonial buildings were constructed in […]
Revealing Relatives In Ancient DNA With Unprecedented Precision
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A new computational tool detects up to second to third-degree cousins using ancient genomes. Scientists from the Max Planck Insтιтute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and the University of Harvard in the USA have developed a new tool which enables them to identify prehistoric and historic individuals’ relatives up to […]
DNA Breakthrough – New Human Gene Cluster Sequence Discovered
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have discovered a new repeat gene cluster sequence that is exclusively expressed in humans and non-human primates. The discovery, detailed in a study published in Science Advances, is a breakthrough for human genome biology and has wide-ranging implications for future research in transcriptional regulation, human evolution, and the study of repeтιтive DNA sequences, according to the […]
Previous Studies Of European Genetic Ancestry May Be Inaccurate – Re-Evaluation Is Needed
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Researchers have found that previous studies analyzing the genomes of people with European ancestry may have reported inaccurate results by not fully accounting for population structure. By considering mixed genetic lineages, researchers at the National Human Genome Research Insтιтute (NHGRI), part of the National Insтιтutes of Health, demonstrated that previously […]
Neanderthals Inherited At Least 6% Of Their Genome From A Now-Extinct Lineage Of Early Modern Humans
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Modern humans migrated to Eurasia 75,000 years ago, where they encountered and interbred with Neanderthals. A new study published in the journal Current Biology shows that at this time Neanderthals were already carrying human DNA from a much older encounter with modern humans. The Penn-led research team, including collaborators from Addis Ababa […]
People Who Carry Neanderthal Gene Variants Have Greater Pain Sensitivity
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – People who carry three gene variants inherited from Neanderthals are more sensitive to some types of pain, according to a new study co-led by UCL researchers. The findings, published in Communications Biology, are the latest findings to show how past interbreeding with Neanderthals has influenced the genetics of modern humans. The […]
Homo Longi: Extinct Human Species That May Replace Neanderthals As Our Closest Relatives
AncientPages.com – In 1933 a mysterious fossil skull was discovered near Harbin City in the Heilongjiang province of north-eastern China. Despite being nearly perfectly preserved – with square eye sockets, thick brow ridges and large teeth – nobody could work out exactly what it was. The skull is much bigger than that of Homo sapiens and other human […]
Do Neanderthal Genes Determine Our Skin Color And Sleep Patterns?
AncientPages.com – Geneticists have now firmly established that roughly two percent of the DNA of all living non-African people comes from our Neanderthal cousins. It’s difficult to imagine why our early ancestors would have mated with them. Neanderthals were a different species to us after all, and the thought of it seems distasteful to us […]