#GreatPaper alert! DNA of a Neanderthal population from Chagyrskaya cave (including a father-daughter pair!), suggesting female migration across communities.

The paper provides unprecedented insights into the social organization of Neanderthals.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05283-y

(Photo and reconstruction by Kennys & Kennys)

#paleoanthropology #neanderthals #anthropology #dna #hominins #paleo #evolution #humans

Teeth, prenatal growth rates, and the evolution of human-like pregnancy in later Homo

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2200689119

#GreatPaper showing that pre-natal growth rate increased through Plio-Pleistocene to reach the higher levels shown by the genus Homo and modern humans.

These results imply that Homo grew faster than great apes prenatally, thus meaning that pregnancy became more energy-demanding.