“Two hundred years of work, research and knowledge were lost.” President Temer said after the fire. “It’s a sad day for all Brazilians.” More than 20 million pieces of history, including Egyptian mummies and historic artwork, may have been destroyed. One of the museum’s most famous artifacts is known as “Luzia,” the skull and bones […]
Neanderthals and Denisovans are extinct groups of hominins that separated from each other more than 390,000 years ago. Here we present the genome of ‘Denisova 11’, a bone fragment from Denisova Cave (Russia) and show that it comes from an individual who had a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father. The father, whose genome bears traces […]
Photo: A sculptor’s rendering of Lucy when she was alive, displayed at the Houston Museum of Natural Science in Texas Dave Einsel/Getty Images 41st anniversary of your discovery. After making the discovery, paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson headed back to his campsite with his team. He put a Beatles cassette in the tape player, and when Lucy […]