In a study published July 18 in the journal Science Advances, Wang and her co-authors came up with a partial answer. They analyzed a dataset of 58,007 women and their children and concluded that, in some cases, a child’s sex correlates with the mother’s age. Women who had their first child at age 29 or older were more likely to …
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A new study published in L’Anthropologie is shedding light on a remarkable discovery from Skhul Cave in Israel. Researchers have reanalyzed the remains of a 140,000-year-old child, and the findings suggest that the child could have been a hybrid between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. This revelation challenges long-held assumptions about early human evolution and may provide new insights into the …
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The child’s skull has a mix of features that appear to align with both modern Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. (Image credit: Israel Hershkovitz/Tel Aviv University) One of the earliest known human burials — that of a young child — could have been a cross between modern humans and Neanderthals, a new study suggests. Researchers analyzed a skull that was found …
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