Category: Anthropology

Last fall, German and Swedish scientists found out that Neanderthal genes were responsible for vulnerability to COVID-19. New studies of the same specialists show that the "heritage" of Neanderthals not only provokes a more serious form of the disease, but also simultaneously protects against coronavirus with the help of another genetic version. Neanderthal Genes Protect […]

Four and a half thousand years ago the population of the Pyrenean Peninsula grew. People built cities and made decorations of gold and silver. And then all threw.On the map Blue color indicates the area of ​​distribution of an Arghers culture in the early bronze age / © Villalba-Mouco V. et al. It has long […]

Scientists have found evidence of Europeans’s evolutionary changes over the past two or three thousand years. They discovered three signs from the inhabitants of Europe, which operates constant pressure of natural selection. Europeans have undergone a genetic evolution for the last millennium / © Getty Images The characteristic of the natural selection of complex signs […]

A new study of Australian scientists has shown that the level of child mortality in prehistoric times could not be so terrible as they thought before. The level of child mortality in antiquity could be much lower than expected / © Getty Images Since the remains of children often find the remains of children in […]

Explorers from the United States explained why physical activity is needed in old age. Scientists explained why older people need sports / © Getty Images Mechanisms, with which physical activity slows down aging and derete fatal outcome, documented. However, scientists still do not fully know why exercise throughout life, especially on average and older, contribute […]

Scientists have proven that strange pits in the ground forming a ring around several large megalites dug people. All together it may indicate a previously unnoticed cultural tradition.Woodhanj, reconstruction / © Wikipedia.Org Similar history – Woodhanja. Almost a hundred years ago, the archaeologists found there 168 pile yams and traces of wooden piles. The detected […]

According to the estimates of Japanese researchers, it happened about 4.5 million years ago. Skull Ardipiteca Ramidus / © © ©Anthropogenesis.Ru For this, the researchers studied more than 300 teeth of hominids, 24 of which belonged to Ardipithecus Ramidus (Ardipithecus Ramidus) – the last link between the ancient primates and Australopithek. Exploring the teeth of […]

Prints of the Lower Limbs on a Volcanic Toufe in Laatoli Have Previously Been Attributed to the African Bear of Ancient. A Couple Of Days Viewing Video Walking Bears On The Hind Legs Convinced Scientists: This Beast Here. IT Turns Out That Some Primacy Lived in Those Places, Which Walked On The Hind Legs – […]

The differences between the DNA of Neanderthal and a man of reasonable are not so much in genes, but in the regulation of their work. Skull of man of reasonable and neanderthal / © hairymuseummatt, DrmikeBaxter, Wikimedia Commons Neanderthals and our straight ancient ancestors coexisted on the territory of Eurasia for a long time and […]

Genetics first traced the history of the residents of Rome from the era of hunters and collectors to the collapse of the ancient empire. From the oldest times Rome was the place of mixing of peoples / © enjoyrome A large team of scientists from Italy and the United States conducted an unprecedented job, highlighting […]