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Modeling research provides a “good starting point” for finding where these species overlapped

The Wallacean islands, in what is now Eastern Indonesia, have a long and rich history of being home to modern humans going back thousands of years.

This nasty old skull, the oldest human genome, and a cow DNA mistake Chris Burns - Apr 8, 2021, 4:49pm CDT The skull you’re looking at was in pieces when it was discovered. After a whole heck of a lot of work, the physical remnants were put together again for this photo. But it’s the tiniest of pieces we care about today. It’s the DNA this 45,000 year old skull provided that’s placed it in the headlines this week. The new eldest modern human genome Courtesy of this skull from Zlatý kůň cave in Czechia (near Prague), we now have some very, very old DNA. With what...

Share Radiocarbon from a 42,000-year-old kauri tree in New Zealand helped unravel Earth’s last magnetic upheaval. JONATHAN PALMER Ancient kauri trees capture last collapse of Earth’s magnetic field Feb. 18, 2021 , 2:00 PM Several years ago, workers breaking ground for a power plant in New Zealand unearthed a record of a lost time: a 60-ton trunk from a kauri tree, the largest tree species in New Zealand. The tree, which grew 42,000 years ago, was preserved in a bog and its rings spanned 1700 years, capturing a tumultuous time when the world was turned upside down—at least magnet...