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A Brand-New Version of Our Origin Story New York Times, By Jared Diamond https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/20/books/review/david-reich-who-we-are-how-we-got-here.html The lecture about the book is: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=990052wQywM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHdCuhYRHqo David Reich, Professor, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Senior Associate Member, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT Harvard Museum of Natural History David Reich’s book is: Who We Are and How We Got Here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_We_Are_and_How_We_Got_Here Yours, Paul H.

Climate Change May Have Contributed To The Extinction Of Neanderthals And Rise Of Modern Humans David Bressan, Forbes Magazine, September 1, 2018 https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2018/09/01/climate-change-may-have-contributed-to-the-extinction-of-neanderthals-and-rise-of-modern-humans/ Cold, dry climate shifts linked to Neanderthal disappearance by Malcolm Ritter, August 27, 2018 https://phys.org/news/2018-08-cold-climate-shifts-linked-neanderthal.html The open access paper is Michael Staubwasser, Virgil Drăgușin, Bogdan P. Onac, Sergey Assonov, Vasile Ersek, Dirk L. Hoffmann, and Daniel Veres, 2018, Impact of climate change on the transition of Neanderthals to modern humans in Europe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Aug 2018, 201808647; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1808647115 http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/08/21/1808647115 Yours, Paul H.

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What Did Neanderthals Leave to Modern Humans? Some Surprises. Claudia Dreifus Interviews, John Anthony Capra, an evolutionary genomics professor January 20, 2017, New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/20/science/john-anthony-capra-neanderthals-dna-humans.html Neanderthals Were People, Too. New research shows they shared many behaviors that we long believed to be uniquely human. Why did science get them so wrong? By, Jon Mooallemjan, January 11, 2017 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/11/magazine/neanderthals-were-people-too.html Yours, Paul H.