Aakancha Shaw, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata Researchers, for the first time, have been successfully able to sequence the entire genome from the skull of PeşteraMuierii 1. She is a woman who lived about 35,000 years ago in today’s Romania. Muierii woman is somehow related to Europeans, though she is not a direct ancestor. This study […]
Rohit Bhattacharjee, Amity University, Kolkata Analyses of endocasts revealing significant differences between Neanderthal and Homo sapiens neurocrania led to the conclusion that specific regions of the brain, especially the cerebellum, temporal and parietal lobes have expanded in the modern lineage owing to the differential growth of neural tissue. Other differences affecting subcortical regions are harder […]
-Anuska Sen, Team bioXone Neanderthals also called Homo neanderthalensis or Homo sapiens neanderthalensis are an extinct group of early humans, which was existent almost 40,000 years back. These individuals lived in Eurasia until they became extinct and there are pieces of evidence that till date a certain percentage of Europeans and South Asians are genetically linked to these Neanderthals. […]
