Archaeologists from Tel Aviv University claim that they have discovered modern human teeth that are 400,000 years old in Qesem Cave in central Israel. The oldest-known Homo sapiens remains are 200,000 years old. “Based on t he evidence they’ve sited, it’s a very tenuous and frankly rather remote possibility,” commented Sir Paul Mellars of Cambridge […]

DNA analysis of a finger bone discovered in southern Siberia suggests that another ancient human relative lived in Asia some 30,000 years ago. This group has been dubbed the Denisovans. Geneticist David Reich of Harvard Medical School talks about the Denisovans on NPR.  In the wake of museum curator Marion True’s trial in Italy on charges […]