{"id":151839,"date":"2010-01-07T19:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:2168131"},"modified":"2010-01-07T19:01:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T00:01:00","slug":"whats-new-with-neanderthals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/151839","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s new with Neanderthals?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P class=textBodyBlack><br \/>\n<DIV align=left><br \/>\n<TABLE id=table1 width=180 align=right><br \/>\n<TBODY><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD><IMG border=1 src=\"http:\/\/msnbcmedia.msn.com\/j\/MSNBC\/Components\/Photo\/_new\/100107-coslog-teeth-vmed-1155a.small.jpg\" width=180 height=198><BR><br \/>\n<DIV align=right><FONT size=1 face=Tahoma align=\"right\">Bayle et al. \/ PNAS<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/TD><\/TR><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD><FONT size=1 face=Verdana align=\"left\">Scientists created these virtual 3-D reconstructions of 30,000-year-old teeth.<BR><br \/>\n<HR><br \/>\n<\/FONT><\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE><\/DIV><br \/>\n<P class=textBodyBlack>Did our extinct Neanderthal cousins have an artistic bent, and did they interbreed with modern humans? Newly published research seems to support affirmative answers to both questions, but those answers are far from final.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>The fresh findings appear this week in two reports written by overlapping teams of researchers and published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>One study focuses on bones and marine shells found at 50,000-year-old Neanderthal cave settlements in southeast Spain. <A href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2009\/12\/22\/0914202107.abstract\">The other study<\/A> looks at the teeth of a 30,000-year-old human skeleton from Portugal.<\/P>&#8230;(<a href=\"http:\/\/cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com\/archive\/2010\/01\/07\/2168131.aspx\">read more<\/a>)<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com\/aggbug.aspx?PostID=2168131\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bayle et al. \/ PNAS Scientists created these virtual 3-D reconstructions of 30,000-year-old teeth. Did our extinct Neanderthal cousins have an artistic bent, and did they interbreed with modern humans? Newly published research seems to support affirmative answers to both questions, but those answers are far from final. The fresh findings appear this week in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}