Nobel Prize winner Svante Pääbo discusses his work in paleogenetics, including sequencing the Neanderthal genome, discovering the Denisovans, and his theories on why Homo sapiens survived while Neanderthals went extinct, attributing it to our larger population size.
A PBS series 'Human' explores the history of humanity and how *Homo sapiens* became the dominant species on Earth, highlighting the existence of multiple human species and the importance of cooperation in our success.
The article discusses the existence of over 20 early human species that coexisted with Homo sapiens, their potential reasons for extinction (climate change, competition, interbreeding), and the current understanding of human evolution.
A study by Professor Ella Been and Dr. Omry Barzilai sheds new light on the burial practices of Homo sapiens and Neanderthals in the Levant region during the Middle Paleolithic, revealing both similarities and differences in how these two species treated their dead.
Analysis of dozens of ancient genomes reveals that close encounters between Neanderthals and humans took place in a narrow time window. The high-resolution analysis also allowed the authors to track when certain Neanderthal DNA sequences appeared in the H. sapiens genome and determine whether they were retained.
