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  • Here the authors provide new radiocarbon, U-series, and OSL dates for Homo sapiens fossils from Tongtianyan cave, southern China, placing them at 33-23 thousand years ago and indicating widespread presence of Homo sapiens across eastern Asia in the Late Pleistocene.

    • Junyi Ge
    • Song Xing
    • Qingfeng Shao
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 15, P: 1-13

  • Detailed comparative analyses of two fossil crania from Apidima Cave, Greece, indicate that two late Middle Pleistocene human groups were present at this site; first an early Homo sapiens population followed by a Neanderthal population.

    • Katerina Harvati
    • Carolin Röding
    • Mirsini Kouloukoussa
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 571, P: 500-504

  • Using bulk heart transcriptomics of rat models of right and left ventricle failure, Jurida et al. examined transcriptional changes in cardiomyocytes during the progression of heart failure and the overlap with transcriptomics from humans with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH), identifying more than 50 genes whose expression levels correlate with the severity of right heart disease.

    • Liane Jurida
    • Sebastian Werner
    • Michael Kracht
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Cardiovascular Research
    Volume: 3, P: 819-840

  • A site in Norfolk, UK, provides the earliest and northernmost evidence of human expansion into Eurasia. Environmental indicators suggest that these early Britons could adapt to a range of climatic conditions.

    • Andrew P. Roberts
    • Rainer Grün
    News & Views
    Nature
    Volume: 466, P: 189-190

  • A directly dated Homo sapiens phalanx from the Nefud desert reveals human presence in the Arabian Peninsula before 85,000 years ago. This represents the earliest date for H. sapiens outside Africa and the Levant.

    • Huw S. Groucutt
    • Rainer Grün
    • Michael D. Petraglia
    Research
    Nature Ecology & Evolution
    Volume: 2, P: 800-809

  • Growing evidence reveals great diversity of archaic Asian hominins. Here, Chang and colleagues describe a newly discovered archaic Homomandible from Taiwan, which suggests the survival of multiple evolutionary lineages among archaic hominins before the arrival of modern humans to eastern Asia.

    • Chun-Hsiang Chang
    • Yousuke Kaifu
    • Liang-Kong Lin
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 6, P: 1-10

  • The COSIMA mass spectrometer on the Rosetta spacecraft has analysed the solid organic matter found in dust particles emitted by comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko; this matter is similar to the insoluble organic matter extracted from carbonaceous chondrites such as the Murchison meteorite, but is perhaps more primitive.

    • Nicolas Fray
    • Anaïs Bardyn
    • Martin Hilchenbach
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 538, P: 72-74

  • New excavations in Liang Bua, where the remains of the ‘Hobbit’ (Homo floresiensis) were discovered, show that this diminutive human species used this cave between 190,000 and 50,000 years ago, and not until as recently as 12,000 years ago as previously interpreted; modern humans have been present in Australia since around 50,000 years ago, so whether Homo floresiensis survived long enough to witness the arrival of modern humans is still an open question.

    • Thomas Sutikna
    • Matthew W. Tocheri
    • Richard G. Roberts
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 532, P: 366-369

  • Stratigraphic, chronological, environmental and faunal context are provided to the newly discovered fossils of hominins that lived in the So’a Basin in Flores, Indonesia, 700,000 years ago; the stone tools recovered with the fossils are similar to those associated with the much younger Homo floresiensis from Flores, discovered in Liang Bua to the west.

    • Adam Brumm
    • Gerrit D. van den Bergh
    • Michael J. Morwood
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 534, P: 249-253

  • New excavations in Sulawesi, where in situ stone artefacts associated with fossil remains of megafauna have been recovered from stratified deposits between 200,000 and 100,000 years ago, suggest that Sulawesi was host to a long-established population of archaic hominins.

    • Gerrit D. van den Bergh
    • Bo Li
    • Michael J. Morwood
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 529, P: 208-211