{"id":4700,"date":"2016-03-16T14:05:29","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T18:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4700"},"modified":"2016-03-18T14:14:38","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T18:14:38","slug":"filling-in-the-family-tree-the-sima-de-los-huesos-hominins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/filling-in-the-family-tree-the-sima-de-los-huesos-hominins\/","title":{"rendered":"Filling in the family tree: The Sima de los Huesos hominins<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4701\" style=\"width: 222px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/4_Homo-heidelbergensis_-Sima-de-los-Huesos_Credit-Javier-Trueba-Madrid-Scientific-Films-725x1024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4701\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4701\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/4_Homo-heidelbergensis_-Sima-de-los-Huesos_Credit-Javier-Trueba-Madrid-Scientific-Films-725x1024-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"A skeleton of an early Neandertal ancestor from Sima de los Huesos, a unique cave site in Northern Spain. (Image credit: Javier Trueba, MADRID SCIENTIFIC FILMS)\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/4_Homo-heidelbergensis_-Sima-de-los-Huesos_Credit-Javier-Trueba-Madrid-Scientific-Films-725x1024-212x300.jpg 212w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/4_Homo-heidelbergensis_-Sima-de-los-Huesos_Credit-Javier-Trueba-Madrid-Scientific-Films-725x1024.jpg 725w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4701\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A skeleton of an early Neandertal ancestor from Sima de los Huesos, a unique cave site in Northern Spain. (Image credit: Javier Trueba, MADRID SCIENTIFIC FILMS)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hominins found in the Sima de los Huesos (\u201cpit of bones\u201d) in northern Spain are more closely related to Denisovans than Neanderthals, according to genetic analysis. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Until now it has been unclear how the 28 individuals were related to other hominins living during the Late Pleistocene. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Analyzing the mitochondrial DNA lead the authors to conclude the closer relationship to Denisovans.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nature.com\/articles\/doi:10.1038\/nature17405\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research\u00a0paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in\u00a0<em>Nature\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>March 14<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Koen Hufkens, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Massachusetts, U.S.A.<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Bence Viola, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Ontario<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hominins found in the Sima de los Huesos (\u201cpit of bones\u201d) in northern Spain are more closely related to Denisovans than Neanderthals, according to genetic analysis. Until now it has been unclear how the 28 individuals were related to other hominins living during the Late Pleistocene. 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