LA5 days agoThe mountains where Neanderthals forever changed human geneticsbigthink.com - Frank JacobsThe genomes of most modern humans contain up to 4% Neanderthal DNA. Scientists have now determined where much of that exchange likely happened: the …
LAThe Antonine Plague: the killer disease that devastated the Roman empirehistoryextra.com - James OsborneWhen the adoptive brothers Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus became co-rulers in AD 161, the Roman empire was enjoying a golden age of progress, …
LAMount Vesuvius eruption was even more deadly than previously thoughtthebrighterside.news - Rebecca ShavitAlmost 2,000 years ago, Pliny the Younger described the ground shaking as Vesuvius erupted. Today, researchers from the Istituto Nazionale di …
LAScientists solve the 4,500 year-old mystery of Stonehenge’s enormous stone pillarsthebrighterside.news - Joseph ShavitIn a remarkable breakthrough published in the journal Science Direct, a research team led by geomorphologist Professor David Nash has finally solved …
LA51,200-Year-Old Cave Art, Likely the World’s Oldest, May Not Have Been Made by Modern Humansthedebrief.org - Micah HanksNew evidence reaffirms that cave art on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the oldest known in the world, according to a study that now dates the …
LAHow Did Stone Age Hunter-Gatherers Avoid Inbreeding?iflscience.com - Benjamin TaubSome women ate some fish thousands of years ago, and now we know everything about their sex lives. Being part of a small hunter-gatherer tribe can …
