Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Everything must have a beginning somewhere at some point in time. It does not matter in which country we live today because, according to scientists, the history of most of our ancestors started in a completely different part of the world. To trace the beginning of all humanity, scientists created […]

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Two-million-year-old DNA has been identified for the first time—opening a ‘game-changing’ new chapter in the history of evolution. Microscopic fragments of environmental DNA were found in Ice Age sediment in northern Greenland. Using cutting-edge technology, researchers discovered the fragments are one million years older than the previous record for DNA […]

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Mating patterns could actually help explain many supposedly biological relationships between traits, researchers say Many estimates of how strongly traits and diseases share genetic signals may be inflated, according to a new UCLA-led study that indicates current methods for ᴀssessing genetic relationships between traits fail to account for mating […]

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – More than 7,000 languages are spoken in the world. This linguistic diversity is pᴀssed on from one generation to the next, similarly to biological traits. But have language and genes evolved in parallel over the past few thousand years, as Charles Darwin originally thought? An interdisciplinary team at the University […]

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The Americas were the last continent to be inhabited by humans. An increasing body of archaeological and genomic evidence has hinted to a complex settlement process. This is especially true for South America, where unexpected ancestral signals have raised perplexing scenarios for the early migrations into different regions of the […]

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The use of ancient DNA, including samples of human remains around 45,000 years old, has shed light on a previously unknown aspect of human evolution. Dr. Yᴀssine Souilmi, Group Leader at the University of Adelaide’s Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, co-led the new study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution. […]

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The first genetic data from Paleolithic human individuals in the U.K.—the oldest human DNA obtained from the British Isles so far—indicates the presence of two distinct groups that migrated to Britain at the end of the last Ice Age, according to new research. Human remains from Kendrick’s Cave (North Wales) […]

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Under the aegis of the University of Oslo, an international research team has extracted and analyzed plant DNA from the sediments of the Armenian “Aghitu-3” cave. About 40,000 to 25,000 years ago, the cave was used as a shelter by humans of the Upper Paleolithic. A detailed DNA analysis shows […]

AncientPages.com – The Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for 2022 has been awarded to Svante Pääbo from the Max Planck Insтιтute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.” Credit: Adobe Stock – Gorodenkoff In other words, Pääbo has been awarded the prestigious prize for having […]