Neanderthals Were Morning People – A New Study Says

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A new research paper finds that genetic material from Neanderthal ancestors may have contributed to the propensity of some people today to be “early risers,” the sort of people who are more comfortable getting up and going to bed earlier. Image credit: ArtSpark – Pixabay All anatomically modern humans trace […]

Tracing Chile’s Indigenous Roots Through Genetics And Linguistics

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – How do today’s Indigenous communities of South America trace back to the history of human migration and contact in the continent? Graphical abstract. Credit: Current Biology (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.05.013 An international team has worked to reconstruct the legacy of Chile’s largest Indigenous community, the Mapuche, in a quest to strengthen […]