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Neanderthals
Title: Neanderthals
Category: Science & Technology
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Neanderthals
In a recent excavation at Abrigo do Lagar Velho in Portugal, Duarte et al (1999) unearthed what was later to be recognized as early human skeletal remains which pointed to interbreeding between Neanderthal and Modern Humans during the mid - upper Palaeolithic transition. The morphology of the remains, belonging to a child of approximately 3-4 years old, indicates a Neanderthal typology in post-cranial features, and more modern cranial features. The find has been cited as evidence of hybridization …showed first 75 words of 2164 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2164 total…and Velika Peina Late Pleistocene hominid !
remains. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 96(22): 12281-12286. Wilson, A.C. and R.L. Cann 1992 The recent African genesis of humans. Scientific American 266(4): 68-73. Wolpoff, Milford H. 1980 Palaeoanthropology. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1989 The place of Neanderthals in human evolution. In Erik Trinkaus, editor, The Emergence of Modern Humans: Biocultural adaptations in the later Pleistocene. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 97-141. Also see: http://www.anatomy.usyd.edu.au/danny/anthropology/
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