ABOUT US

News About The Human Species

2,224 articles

Number of neurons makes human brain powerful, not structure
Aug 10, 2016 (UPI)
New research suggests the human brain isn't special. It's just a bigger, better primate brain. "People need to drop the idea that the human brain is exceptional...
Fresh look at burials, mass graves, tells a new story of Cahokia
Aug 09, 2016 (SPX)
A new study challenges earlier interpretations of an important burial mound at Cahokia, a pre-Columbian city in Illinois near present-day St. Louis. The study r...
Researchers find evidence of animal butchering by Stone Age hominins
Aug 08, 2016 (UPI)
For the first time, researchers have discovered direct evidence of hunting and butchering of animals using stone tools by early hominins. Over three years, a te...
The great evolutionary smoke out: An advantage for modern humans
Aug 05, 2016 (SPX)
A genetic mutation may have helped modern humans adapt to smoke exposure from fires and perhaps sparked an evolutionary advantage over Neandertals, according to...
Tracking down the first chefs
Aug 05, 2016 (SPX)
Archaeological sites speak about the everyday lives of people in other times. Yet knowing how to interpret this reality does not tend to be straightforward. We ...
Population boom preceded early farming
Aug 04, 2016 (SPX)
University of Utah anthropologists counted the number of carbon-dated artifacts at archaeological sites and concluded that a population boom and scarce food exp...
Volunteers chew bones to help identify marks of earliest human chefs
Aug 02, 2016 (UPI)
Ancient archaeological sites are also often ancient paleontological sites, too. Animal bones found there may have been brought and deposited there by non-human ...
1.7 million-year-old foot bone offers earliest evidence of malignant cancer
Jul 28, 2016 (UPI)
Cancer's roots lie deep in prehistory. Swartkrans cave, a rich archaeological site, has yielded a 1.7 million-year-old foot bone with a malignant tumor -- the o...
Voice control in orangutan gives clues to early human speech
Jul 28, 2016 (SPX)
An adolescent orangutan called Rocky could provide the key to understanding how speech in humans evolved from the time of the ancestral great apes, according to...
Biologists home in on paleo gut for clues to our evolutionary history
Jul 26, 2016 (SPX)
For all the anxiety today about the bacteria in our gut being under constant assault by antibiotics, stress and bad diets, it turns out that a lot of the bacter...
Early humans used mammoth ivory tool to make rope
Jul 22, 2016 (UPI)
Despite its technological importance to early hunter-gatherers, archaeologists know relatively little about the production and use of rope and twine during the ...
Technological and cultural innovations amongst early humans not sparked by climate change
Jul 19, 2016 (SPX)
Environmental records obtained from archaeological sites in South Africa's southern Cape suggest climate may not have been directly linked to cultural and techn...
Cave art reveals religious encounters between Europeans and Native Americans
Jul 19, 2016 (UPI)
Several hundred years ago, the earliest European explorers and settlers sought communion with Native Americans. Cave art found on a remote Caribbean island sugg...
Genomes from Zagros mountains reveal different Neolithic ancestry
Jul 19, 2016 (SPX)
Sedentism, farming, and agriculture was invented some 10,000 years ago in a region between southeastern Anatolia, Iran, Iraq, and Syria, an area traditionally l...
Changes in primate teeth linked to rise of monkeys
Jul 14, 2016 (SPX)
University of California, Berkeley paleontologists have identified distinctive features of primate teeth that allow them to track the evolution of our ape and m...
Monkeys in Brazil 'have used stone tools for hundreds of years at least'
Jul 14, 2016 (SPX)
New archaeological evidence suggests that Brazilian capuchins have been using stone tools to crack open cashew nuts for at least 700 years. Researchers say, to ...
Archaeology suggests no direct link between climate change and early human innovation
Jul 11, 2016 (SPX)
Environmental records obtained from archaeological sites suggest climate may not have been directly linked to cultural and technological innovations of Middle S...
Monkeys know what they don't know
Jul 08, 2016 (UPI)
Rhesus monkeys are aware of the limits of their knowledge, new research shows. According to scientists at Harvard and Yale, the monkeys realized when they didn'...
The history of human genetic ancestry in Madagascar
Jul 07, 2016 (SPX)
More than 4,000 years ago, a proto-globalization process started in the Indian Ocean, one of the outcomes being a great human migration of African and Asian peo...
Evidence of cannibalism among late Neanderthals found in Europe
Jul 06, 2016 (UPI)
Neanderthal bones found in Belgium shows signs of intentional butchering, evidence the human ancestors consumed their own. Unearthed from the Goyet caves near N...
Buy Advertising About Us Editorial & Other Enquiries Privacy statement
The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, is Copyright 1995-2026 Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principles for news reporting and research purposes.