Hundreds of years before the Dutch sailor Jakob Roggeveen became the first European to arrive on Easter Island, in 1722, its inhabitants already traveled thousands of kilometers across the Pacific.
A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (Germany) has succeeded in completing the sequencing of the genome of “Ust-Ishim Man”, an anatomically modern male, who lived in Siberia 45,000 years ago, which makes it the oldest known modern human (the former was the genome of the Mal'ta boy from 24,000 years ago). The work has been published in the journal Nature.
A team of French scientists, in collaboration with WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature), has succeeded in isolating polar bear DNA from a footprint in the snow for the first time.
A team of scientists from the EURAC Institute in Bolzano (Italy), as well as several researchers from the University of Vienna (Austria) have discovered non-human DNA in the sample of hip bone that was extracted from the 5,300-year-old mummy found on a glacier in the Alps and named Otzi, the Iceman.
This is the conclusion of the latest study carried out by a team of researchers from the universities of California at San Diego and Yale (USA) and which has been published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
