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Genetic mutation in key enzyme may explain why humans survived while Neanderthals went extinct A minor genetic difference in one of the enzymes may ... (media.mstdn.social)
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Genetic mutation in key enzyme may explain why humans survived while Neanderthals went extinct A minor genetic difference in one of the enzymes may have helped separate modern humans from Neanderthals and Denisovans, our closest extinct relatives, and may have even contributed to the fact that Homo sapiens thrived while the others became extinct..More info: archaeologymag.com/2025/08/whyFollow @archaeology #archaeology #anthropology #evolution #Neanderthals #homosapiens #Denisovans #neanderthal

Genetic mutation in key enzyme may explain why humans survived while Neanderthals went extinct A minor genetic difference in one of the enzymes may have helped separate modern humans from Neanderthals and Denisovans, our closest extinct relatives, and may have even contributed to the fact that Homo sapiens thrived while the others became extinct. These are the findings of a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), led by researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) in Japan and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany...
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[–] 1 point 1 year ago

@archaeology I'm pretty sure Europeans at that time had much darker skin than the image suggests.

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