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Early human ancestors were breastfed for the first year of life
Jul 15, 2019 (UPI)
By analyzing the elemental makeup of two-million-year-old baby teeth found in South Africa, scientists confirmed that Australopithecus africanus babies predomin...
Call for green burial corridors alongside roads, railways and country footpaths
Jul 08, 2019 (SPX)
Writing in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Professor John Ashton points to the recent announcement of a scheme to plant 130,000 trees in urban are...
Neanderthals made repeated use of the ancient settlement of 'Ein Qashish, Israel
Jul 01, 2019 (SPX)
In the Levant region of the Middle East, the main source of information on Middle Paleolithic human occupation comes from cave sites. Compared to open air settl...
Selfies and the self: what they say about us and society
Jun 27, 2019 (AFP)
Sometimes, that can be a very toxic mix, experts say. "We are truly in the age of the picture, of the fleeting image," said psychoanalyst, essayist and philosop...
DNA analysis offers insight into Japan's ancient population boom, bust
Jun 20, 2019 (UPI)
"Evidence at archaeological dig sites has been used to estimate the size of ancient human populations, but the difficulty and unpredictability of finding those ...
9,000 years ago, a community with modern urban problems
Jun 18, 2019 (SPX)
Scientists studying the ancient ruins of Catalhoyuk, in modern Turkey, found that its inhabitants - 3,500 to 8,000 people at its peak - experienced overcrowding...
Indian family branches out with novel tree house
Jun 18, 2019 (AFP)
Now the thick trunk of the 150-year-old tree is the central feature of their residence, growing through the middle of the building in the city of Jabalpur. "We ...
Human brain uniquely tuned for musical pitch
Jun 11, 2019 (UPI)
"We found that a certain region of our brains has a stronger preference for sounds with pitch than macaque monkey brains," neuroscientist Bevil Conway, an inves...
Milk teeth reveal previously uknown Ice Age people from Siberia
Jun 05, 2019 (UPI)
For the new study, published this week in the journal Nature Communications, researchers analyzed DNA samples from 34 individuals recovered from Russia's Yana R...
Chimpanzees in the wild reduced to 'forest ghettos'
Jun 04, 2019 (AFP)
All four sub-species of the African primate are threatened with extinction, with at least one -- the western chimpanzee -- declining in number by more than 80 p...
Oldest flaked stone tools point to the repeated invention of stone tools
Jun 04, 2019 (SPX)
Analysis by the researchers of early stone age sites, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests that stone tools may ...
Chimps caught crabbing
Jun 03, 2019 (SPX)
Now, according to a research team from Kyoto University, one potential clue may have surfaced thanks to observations of our closest genetic relatives: chimpanze...
Humans used northern migration routes to reach eastern Asia
Jun 03, 2019 (SPX)
Archaeologists and palaeoanthropologists are increasingly interested in discovering the environments facing the earliest members of our species, Homo sapiens, a...
Chimpanzees catch and eat crabs
Jun 03, 2019 (SPX)
"Our study is the first evidence showing that non-human apes regularly catch and eat aquatic fauna," says Kathelijne Koops, researcher at the Department of Anth...
Declining fertility led to Neanderthal extinction, new model suggests
May 31, 2019 (UPI)
Their analysis, published this week in the journal PLOS One, showed declining fertility offers the likeliest explanation for the disappearance of the Neandertha...
Researchers wonder if ancient supernovae prompted human ancestors to walk upright
May 30, 2019 (SPX)
A paper published in the Journal of Geology makes the case: Supernovae bombarded Earth with cosmic energy starting as many as 8 million years ago, with a peak s...
Early humans may have crossed Central Asian deserts during wetter conditions
May 30, 2019 (UPI)
During the Late Pleistocene, early humans began spreading out across Eurasia. Previously, archaeologists and paleoanthropologists assumed pathways across northe...
Chimpanzees in West Africa observed fishing for crabs year-round
May 29, 2019 (UPI)
Scientists observed a population of chimpanzees living in the Nimba Mountains of Guinea in West Africa fishing for freshwater crabs year-round. The fishing beha...
Six Paths to the Nonsurgical Future of Brain-Machine Interfaces
May 23, 2019 (SPX)
These wearable interfaces could ultimately enable diverse national security applications such as control of active cyber defense systems and swarms of unmanned ...
Boy or girl? Hong Kong at centre of banned China gender test
May 22, 2019 (AFP)
The business thrives on a well-organised underground network that serves the huge demand for illicit sex-selective abortion in mainland China -- driven by limit...
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