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The traditional view is that the first humans with anatomy like ours evolved in Africa, then from about 50,000 years ago started to spread into the Near East before continuing into Asia and Europe. 
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Western humans are rare in that we drink milk after weaning. Milk is the staple food for infants and contains the sugar lactose but most mammals lose the ability to digest lactose, and thus milk, as they get older. The ability to
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Une équipe espagnole a séquencé le premier génome complet d'un chasseur-cueilleur européen. Il y a 7000 ans, il avait probablement la peau et les cheveux foncés mais les yeux bleus. A...
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La Brana 1, the name used to baptize a 7,000-year-old individual from the Mesolithic Period whose remains were recovered at La Brana-Arintero site in Valdelugueros (Leon, Spain), had blue eyes and dark skin, new research reveals.
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La presidenta de la Diputación de Guadalajara, Ana Guarinos, ha aprovechado la visita de la presidenta de Castilla-La Mancha, María Dolores de Cospedal, al stand de la región, donde se encuentran representadas las cinco provincias, para entregarle una reproducción de un vaso cerámico de la cultura campaniforme del periodo Calcolítico hallado en la cueva del Destete en Valdepeñas de la Sierra.. Noticias, última hora, vídeos y fotos de Turismo en lainformacion.com
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Where did hoatzins come from? These unusual birds, only one species of which exists in South America today, originated in the Old World. Studies of the oldest known fossils of Hoatzin ancestors have now shown that these birds existed around 34 million years ago in Europe. Paleornithologists at the Senckenberg ...
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(Phys.org) —After decades of scholarship denying that the Carthaginians sacrificed their children, new research has found 'overwhelming' evidence that this ancient civilisation really did carry out the practice.
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Genome study of human remains recovered from a Mesolithic site in Spain provide clues to the individual's appearance.
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L’IUEM organise le 28 janvier une journée d’études sur la mer et la (pré)histoire, à Brest. Catherine Dupont décrira ce que mangeaient les hommes préhistoriques.
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In the beginning there were single cells. Today, many millions of years later, most plants, animals, fungi, and algae are composed of multiple cells that work collaboratively as a single being. Despite the various ways these organisms achieved multicellularity, their conglomeration of cells operate cooperatively to consume energy, survive, and reproduce. But how did multicellularity evolve?
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Back in the Middle Ages, Central Europeans were already capable of digesting milk, yogurt and cheese just as well as us today. Researchers at the University of Zurich's Centre for Evolutionary Medicine have discovered that the population of the medieval town of Dalheim had a similar genetic predisposition for milk digestion to present-day Germans and Austrians. Moreover, the study reveals that lactose tolerance was more widespread than previously believed.
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Swedish archaeologists in Jordan led by Professor Peter M. Fischer from the University of Gothenburg have excavated a nearly 60-metre long well-preserved building from 1100 B.C. in the ancient settlement Tell Abu al-Kharaz. The building is from an era characterised by major migration.
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Un sarcophage de 60 tonnes découvert il y a un an, serait celui de Sobekhotep I.
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The mutation for milk-drinking evolved in different parts of the world over the last 10,000 years as a result of strong natural selection, but why was it so advantageous?
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