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Neanderthal extinction may have occurred without environmental pressure or modern humans
Nov 28, 2019 (SPX)
Paleoanthropologists agree that Neanderthals disappeared around 40,000 years ago - about the same time that anatomically modern humans began migrating into the ...
Neuroscientists build model to identify internal brain states
Nov 27, 2019 (UPI)
These internal brain states are invisible to the outside observer, but neuroscientists have developed a new model to predict internal brain states based on obse...
A monkey's balancing act
Nov 26, 2019 (SPX)
It reveals the negative impact that consuming human foods can have on the physical health of the monkeys, and highlights the need for new and sustainable conser...
Extinct giant ape directly linked to the living orangutan
Nov 15, 2019 (SPX)
It is the first time that genetic material this old has been retrieved from a warm, humid environment. The study is published in the scientific journal Nature, ...
Skull study suggests pre-humans weren't as bright as modern apes
Nov 13, 2019 (UPI)
For the study, scientists analyzed holes in the skull that allow the passage of supply arteries to the brain, calculating blood flow to the cognitive part of th...
Brain enlightens the origin of human hand's skill
Nov 12, 2019 (SPX)
According to the Dr. An, We, humans, who have evolved from Homo habilis ('handy man'), have developed art, science, and technology. This is due to the ability t...
Fossil suggests apes, old world monkeys moved in opposite directions from shared ancestor
Nov 11, 2019 (SPX)
"Our study shows that Aegyptopithecus preserves an ancient hip morphology not present in living anthropoid primates," said Sergio Almecija, a paleoanthropologis...
Early Rome featured a surprising amount of genetic diversity
Nov 08, 2019 (UPI)
To better understand how the genetic makeup of people in Rome and surrounding regions were influenced by centuries of migration, as well as the Roman Empire's g...
How human population came from our ability to cooperate
Nov 07, 2019 (SPX)
In "How There Got to Be So Many of Us: The Evolutionary Story of Population Growth and a Life History of Cooperation," Karen L. Kramer explores the deep past to...
The genetic imprint of Palaeolithic has been detected in North African populations
Nov 07, 2019 (SPX)
The field of genomics has evolved greatly in recent years. DNA sequencing is increasingly affordable and there are major projects studying genomes at population...
Neanderthal children grew, weaned similarly to Homo sapien children
Nov 02, 2019 (UPI)
Scientists were able to discern the growth rates and weaning onset times of Neanderthal children by examining milk teeth fossils recovered from northern Italy. ...
The homeland of modern humans
Oct 29, 2019 (SPX)
The findings were published this week in the journal Nature. The authors propose that changes in Africa's climate triggered the first human explorations, which ...
Tar-covered flint tool suggests Neanderthals were surprisingly innovative
Oct 24, 2019 (UPI)
Scientists recently found traces of the ancient glue on the handle of a 50,000 year-old flint tool, according to a study published this week. "What is so intere...
Marmosets can learn, adopt new dialects
Oct 24, 2019 (UPI)
Like many mammals, the marmoset, a small monkey native to Central and South America, communicates using regional dialects. Their calls and songs vary from one l...
Scientists find early humans moved through Mediterranean earlier than believed
Oct 17, 2019 (SPX)
The findings, published in the journal Science Advances, are based on years of excavations and challenge current thinking about human movement in the region - l...
Human brain, braincase evolved independently, researchers say
Oct 15, 2019 (UPI)
Scientists have long sought to unravel the evolutionary relationship between the human brain and braincase, and to determine which of the two led the evolutiona...
High-stakes conflict threatens DR Congo gorillas
Oct 12, 2019 (AFP)
For an hour each day, the gorilla and his dozen-strong family host a handful of wildlife tourists, guided by armed eco-guards. Their home is a haven in the prov...
Cemeteries offer evidence of social inequality in Bronze Age households
Oct 10, 2019 (UPI)
The evidence, recovered from a series of burials sites on homestead farms in southern Germany, was described this week in the journal Science. "In southern Germ...
Bone DNA may reveal genetic differences between Neanderthals, humans
Oct 08, 2019 (UPI)
By comparing thousands of human genomes with the handful of previously compiled Neanderthal genomes, researchers were able to isolate differences in gene regula...
Early humans evolved in ecosystems unlike any found today
Oct 08, 2019 (SPX)
Because putting together the puzzle of millions-of-years-old ecosystems is a difficult task, many studies have reconstructed the environments by drawing analogi...
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