Humans domesticated horses – new tech could help archaeologists figure out where and when
Archaeologists have long argued over when and how people first domesticated horses. A decade ago, new techniques appeared to have provided answers – but further discoveries change the story again.
March 2, 2020 • ~10 min
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‘Game-changing’ research could solve evolution mysteries
An evolution revolution has begun after scientists extracted genetic information from a 1.7 million-year-old rhino tooth – the largest and oldest genetic data to ever be recorded.
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DNA from 31,000-year-old milk teeth leads to discovery of new group of ancient Siberians
Two children’s milk teeth buried deep in a remote archaeological site in north eastern Siberia have revealed a previously unknown group of people lived there during the last Ice Age.
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Harvard doctoral students describe projects at the cutting edge of evolutionary inquiry
Harvard doctoral students offered a glimpse of the future of evolutionary inquiry, outlining projects that touch on the human pelvis, butterfly hybrids, field and forest mice, and the mystery of an ancient pile of bones.
Tags: science-technology ancient-dna evolution butterfly mouse harvard-museum-of-natural-history alvin-powell nate-edelman andrew-berry eadaoin-harney emily-hager mariel-young pelvis speciation
Ancient DNA analysis unlocks secrets of Ice Age tribes in the Americas
Scientists have sequenced 15 ancient genomes spanning from Alaska to Patagonia and were able to track the movements of the first humans as they spread across the Americas at “astonishing” speed during the last Ice Age, and also how they interacted with each other in the following millennia.
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