Senckenberg scientists have studied the diet of anatomically modern humans. With their recent study, published today in the journal Scientific Reports, they were able to… Read More »Early humans ate like Neanderthals, mostly mammoths and plants
Scientists from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment (HEP) in Tübingen have studied the Neanderthals’ diet. Based on the isotope composition in the… Read More »Neanderthals were big meat eaters, but also ate their greens, study finds
Fish was not on the menu of the hunter-gatherers of southern Europe 27,000 years ago. Surprisingly, people on the Iberian Peninsula in the Late Gravettian… Read More »New method uncovers surprising diet of late gravettian people in Spain
Most bats patrol the night sky in search of insects. New World leaf-nosed bats take a different approach. Among the more than 200 species of… Read More »20-million-year-old bat fossil challenges theory of South American origins
The recent approval of a CRISPR-Cas9 therapy for sickle cell disease demonstrates that gene editing tools can do a superb job of knocking out genes… Read More »New gene therapy technique uses bird retroelement for safe gene insertion