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Belgium gets world's biggest pickled brain collection
Sep 15, 2016 (AFP)
A new collection in the psychiatric hospital of Duffel in the north of Belgium makes for a ghoulish sight: around 3,000 preserved brains that were originally sa...
How did prehistoric humans occupy the Tibetan Plateau?
Sep 06, 2016 (SPX)
The Tibetan Plateau, as the Earth's third pole, has long been of interest to many, especially in relation to its human history. Over the last few decades our un...
Study: Math-capable parents yield math-capable kids
Sep 01, 2016 (UPI)
If your dad or mom is good at math, chances are you're pretty good yourself. In a recent study, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh found a parent's per...
Smarter brains are blood-thirsty brains
Sep 01, 2016 (SPX)
A University of Adelaide-led project has overturned the theory that the evolution of human intelligence was simply related to the size of the brain - but rather...
UT study cracks coldest case: How the most famous human ancestor died
Aug 31, 2016 (SPX)
Lucy, the most famous fossil of a human ancestor, probably died after falling from a tree, according to a study appearing in Nature led by researchers at The Un...
Scientists think human ancestor Lucy fell from a tree
Aug 29, 2016 (UPI)
Scientists believe that 3.18 million years ago, a relatively young but mature adult female hominin fell from a tree in Africa and perished. Today, much of the w...
PRB projects world population rising 33 percent by 2050 to nearly 10 billion
Aug 29, 2016 (SPX)
The world population will reach 9.9 billion in 2050, up 33 percent from an estimated 7.4 billion now, according to projections included in the latest World Popu...
The Anthropocene is here: scientists
Aug 29, 2016 (AFP)
The human impact on Earth's chemistry and climate has cut short the 11,700-year-old geological epoch known as the Holocene and ushered in a new one, scientists ...
Chimpanzees choose cooperation over competition
Aug 23, 2016 (SPX)
When given a choice between cooperating or competing, chimpanzees choose to cooperate five times more frequently Yerkes National Primate Research Center researc...
Revolutionary method to map brains at single-neuron resolution successfully demonstrated
Aug 22, 2016 (SPX)
Neuroscientists have published in the magazine Neuron details of a revolutionary new way of mapping the brain at the resolution of individual neurons, which the...
New research throws light on stone artifacts' use as ancient projectiles
Aug 19, 2016 (SPX)
A team of psychologists, kinesiologists and archaeologists at Indiana University and elsewhere are throwing new light on a longstanding archaeological mystery: ...
New insights into the evolution of cooperation in spatially structured populations
Aug 18, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers have analyzed a new mathematical model to investigate how a population's spatial structure affects the evolution of cooperation. Jorge Pena of the M...
More gorilla than chimp
Aug 17, 2016 (SPX)
A new study that for the first time examined the internal anatomy of a fossil human relative's heel bone, or calcaneus, shows greater similarities with gorillas...
Large human brain evolved as a result of sizing each other up
Aug 17, 2016 (SPX)
Humans have evolved a disproportionately large brain as a result of sizing each other up in large cooperative social groups, researchers have proposed. A team l...
Most U.S. adults have vocabulary of more than 42,000 words
Aug 16, 2016 (UPI)
Traditionally, scientists have struggled to measure the size of adult vocabularies, but the surprising social media popularity of a recent vocabulary test has c...
Scientists decode sentence signatures among brain activity patterns
Aug 15, 2016 (UPI)
Neuroscientists are the University of Rochester are taking sentence diagramming to the next level. For the first time, scientists decoded sentences by analyzing...
Total number of neurons - not enlarged prefrontal region - hallmark of human brain
Aug 15, 2016 (SPX)
A new scientific study puts the final nail in the coffin of a long-standing theory to explain human's remarkable cognitive abilities: that human evolution invol...
How did primate brains get so big
Aug 15, 2016 (SPX)
Virtual brains reconstructed from ancient, kiwi-sized primate skulls could help resolve one of the most intriguing evolutionary mysteries: how modern primates d...
Archaeologists find Britain's last hunter-gatherers on small island
Aug 11, 2016 (UPI)
Human remains from the Late Mesolithic era -- a period just prior to the introduction of farming -- are nearly nonexistent in Britain. The outlier, however, is ...
UVic-led archeology team makes world-first discovery about early use of stone age tools
Aug 10, 2016 (SPX)
How smart were human-like species of the Stone Age? New research published in the Journal of Archaeological Science by a team led by paleoanthropologist April N...
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