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The role of Neanderthal introgression in liver cancer
BMC Medical Genomics, 2022 Background Neanderthal introgressed DNA has been linked to different normal and disease traits including immunity and metabolism—two important functions that are altered in liver cancer. However, there is limited understanding of the relationship between
Angela M. Taravella Oill +2 more
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The earliest unambiguous Neanderthal engravings on cave walls: La Roche-Cotard, Loire Valley, France
PLoS ONE, 2023 Here we report on Neanderthal engravings on a cave wall at La Roche-Cotard (LRC) in central France, made more than 57±3 thousand years ago. Following human occupation, the cave was completely sealed by cold-period sediments, which prevented access until ...
J. Marquet +24 more
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A symbolic Neanderthal accumulation of large herbivore crania
Nature Human Behaviour, 2023 This work examines the possible behaviour of Neanderthal groups at the Cueva Des-Cubierta (central Spain) via the analysis of the latter’s archaeological assemblage.
E. Baquedano +33 more
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Virtual excavation and analysis of the early Neanderthal cranium from Altamura (Italy)
Communications Biology, 2023 3D reconstruction of a human cranium held within a deep cave in Italy is achieved with advanced virtual anthropology techniques; its features indicate that geographic isolation contributed to variation and evolution along the Neanderthal lineage ...
A. Profico +12 more
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The Neanderthal resurrection and the Abominable Snowman legend
Шаги, 2022 Since the 1870s, the image of the ‘prehistoric man’ has spread widely in European and American public imagination. His appearance is reconstructed by paleoanthropologists and anatomists (Schaaffhausen, Solger, Martin); under the guidance of “primitive ...
S. Yu. Nekliudov
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Communications Biology, 2023 A genome-wide association study and fully automatic landmarking approach on frontal 2D face photographs of >6000 Latin Americans identifies novel genomic regions influencing facial features and implicates Neanderthal introgression in nasal shape.
Qing Li +38 more
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On the Quina side: A Neanderthal bone industry at Chez-Pinaud site, France
bioRxiv, 2023 Did Neanderthal produce a bone industry? The recent discovery of a large bone tool assemblage at the Neanderthal site of Chagyrskaya (Altai, Siberia, Russia) and the increasing discoveries of isolated finds of bone tools in various Mousterian sites ...
M. Baumann +10 more
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Open Archaeology, 2022 In this article, the author would like to raise the attention on some structural problems at the bottom of past and present approaches within lithic studies, specifically the classificatory enterprises, thus contributing to the theoretical discussions ...
Di Maida Gianpiero
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The building blocks of art and its accompanying role and meaning
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022 In this article, focusing on the building blocks of art with its concomitant role and meaning, we commence with a brief evolutionary overview of the origin of land vertebrates, which culminated in the rise of our species as we view it.
Chris Jones, Juri van den Heever
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Science Advances, 2023 Straight-tusked elephants (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) were the largest terrestrial mammals of the Pleistocene, present in Eurasian landscapes between 800,000 and 100,000 years ago.
S. Gaudzinski-Windheuser +3 more
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