Kristina Killgrove
Resurrecting Neanderthals: The scientific challenge and ethical debate
When scientists sequenced the Neanderthal genome in 2010, they learned that Neanderthals interbred with human ancestors before mysteriously going extinct. This genetic breakthrough yielded ...
How did humans get so brainy? Advanced intelligence likely came from a lineage that split off for more than a millenium and then reconnected
The ancestors of all modern humans split off from a mystery population 1.5 million years ago and then reconnected with ...
‘We’ve not found evidence that Neanderthals wore clothes
Braving the cold weather in Northern Europe required Neanderthals to have robust bodies and a facility for making fire. But did ...
‘Terrible science’: Archaeological geneticists blast study that used DNA to identify Jack the Ripper
News media was buzzing [March 18] with a claim that scientists had finally figured out the real identity of the ...
Human hair protein may replace DNA as key forensics tool
DNA analysis as a way to identify unknown individuals is useful in both forensic anthropology and bioarchaeology, but only if ...
Archaeologists reveal native Alaskans’ roots
As humans spread out of Africa and settled the rest of the world tens of thousands of years ago, one ...