The small town of Steinheim an der Murr is around 20 km north of Stuttgart, Germany. On July 21, 1933, Karl Sigrist, Jr., was working in the gravel pit his father owned near the town, when he uncovered a skull. At the time of its discovery it was one of the very few pieces of evidence of human evol…
Rapid natural selection across the last 5000 years, a complex speciation to kick off the hominin lineage, and a single pulse of Neandertal ancestry into recent people around 47,000 years ago. Those are some of the big stories coming from DNA this year. If you're thinking these stories sound like ne…
Note: Elsevier has released a statement about this editorial board resignation, in which the company states that the editors' claims about AI are inaccurate, and AI is not used in Elsevier's production process. I have posted an update at the bottom of this post. This week the editorial board of the…
Over the last several weeks, news sources in Germany and the UK have been reporting on an apparent archaeological scandal. German authorities are investigating allegations of fraud affecting well-known archaeological finds, mostly in the Rhine valley. One is a partial skull once identified as a 160…
