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Bigger brains led to bigger bodies in our ancestors
Apr 20, 2016 (SPX)
New research suggests that humans became the large-brained, large-bodied animals we are today because of natural selection to increase brain size. The work, pub...
Study: Some words sound farther away than others
Apr 18, 2016 (UPI)
Words have meanings beyond those found in the dictionary. The very sounds of the syllables that form everyday words carry symbolic meaning. As researchers at th...
Are humans the new supercomputer
Apr 18, 2016 (SPX)
The saying of philosopher Rene Descartes of what makes humans unique is beginning to sound hollow. 'I think - therefore soon I am obsolete' seems more appropria...
Brain observed filing memories during sleep
Apr 18, 2016 (UPI)
Rest and sleep are vital for brain health. New research suggests the brain uses downtime to consolidate memories, or transfer recent memories from one part of t...
Study: Electrical brain stimulation enhances creativity
Apr 14, 2016 (UPI)
In a series of recent tests, team of psychologists and neurologists at Georgetown University showed electric brain stimulation can enhance creativity. When scie...
The pyrophilic primate
Apr 13, 2016 (SPX)
Fire, a tool broadly used for cooking, constructing, hunting and even communicating, was arguably one of the earliest discoveries in human history. But when, ho...
Headdress study highlights ancient hunter-gatherer rituals
Apr 13, 2016 (UPI)
Researchers in England have spent the last four years reconstructing ancient shamanic headdresses found at an Early Mesolithic archaeological site in North York...
Humans likely delivered diseases to Neanderthals
Apr 12, 2016 (UPI)
The first humans out of Africa likely brought disease with them that infected the populations of Neanderthals they encountered in Europe and Eurasia. While stud...
Neanderthal Y chromosome offers clues to what kept us separate species
Apr 08, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers reporting in the American Journal of Human Genetics, published by Cell Press, have completed the first in-depth genetic analysis of a Neanderthal Y ...
Primate evolution in the fast lane
Apr 08, 2016 (SPX)
The pace of evolution is typically measured in millions of years, as random, individual mutations accumulate over generations, but researchers at Cornell and Ba...
Early humans colonized South America like an invasive species
Apr 07, 2016 (UPI)
The growth of early human societies in South America look a lot an invasive species' conquest of new habitat. Today, humans are less constrained by the limits o...
Global competition shows technology aids weight loss
Apr 03, 2016 (AFP)
A friendly international competition to encourage exercise using pedometers and online tools was successful in helping people lose weight and improve their fitn...
Neuronal feedback could change what we 'see'
Mar 31, 2016 (SPX)
Ever see something that isn't really there? Could your mind be playing tricks on you? The "tricks" might be your brain reacting to feedback between neurons in d...
Study: Indonesian 'hobbits' likely died out sooner than thought
Mar 30, 2016 (UPI)
Previous studies have suggested Indonesia "hobbits," Homo floresiensis, live alongside humans for several thousand years. But researchers at Australia's Griffit...
Study of Japanese hunter-gatherers suggests violence isn't inherent
Mar 30, 2016 (UPI)
There's plenty of evidence of violence perpetrated by and against early humans. Scientists have long grappled over the evolutionary significance of violence. Ar...
Diet shaped human evolution
Mar 30, 2016 (SPX)
Homo sapiens, the ancestor of modern humans, shared the planet with Neanderthals, a close, heavy-set relative that dwelled almost exclusively in Ice-Age Europe,...
World map of Neanderthal and Denisovan ancestry in modern humans
Mar 29, 2016 (SPX)
Most non-Africans possess at least a little bit Neanderthal DNA. But a new map of archaic ancestry - published March 28 in Current Biology - suggests that many ...
Human ancestors explored 'out of Africa' despite impaired nasal faculties
Mar 29, 2016 (SPX)
In humans inhaled air is conditioned poorly in the nasal cavity in comparison with primates, such as chimpanzees and macaques, according a recent study publishe...
Australopithecus fossils found east of the Great Rift Valley
Mar 29, 2016 (SPX)
New fossils from Kenya suggest that an early hominid species - Australopithecus afarensis - lived far eastward beyond the Great Rift Valley and much farther tha...
Caveman's best friends? Preserved Ice Age puppies awe scientists
Mar 28, 2016 (AFP)
The hunters searching for mammoth tusks were drawn to the steep riverbank by a deposit of ancient bones. To their astonishment, they discovered an Ice Age puppy...
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