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Discovery of partial skeleton suggests ruggedly built, tree-climbing human ancestor
Dec 10, 2013 (SPX)
A human ancestor characterized by "robust" jaw and skull bones was a muscular creature with a gorilla-like upper body and more adaptive to its environment than ...
Taking pictures to remember may help you forget
Dec 10, 2013 (AFP)
Taking a picture to help you remember something might end up having the opposite effect, according to research published in the United States. A study released ...
First evidence of primates regularly sleeping in caves
Dec 09, 2013 (SPX)
Scientists have discovered that some ring-tailed lemurs in Madagascar regularly retire to limestone chambers for their nightly snoozes, the first evidence of th...
Domestication of dogs may have come from pre-existing capacity of wolves to learn
Dec 09, 2013 (SPX)
Wolves can learn from observing humans and pack members where food is hidden and recognize when humans only pretend to hide food, reports a study for the first ...
Evidence of funerary meal found at 13,000-year-old gravesite in Israel
Dec 03, 2013 (UPI)
Israeli archaeologists say they've uncovered the remains of a prehistoric funeral banquet, the oldest funerary meal discovered to date. The discovery was made d...
Skull find shows women were sacrificed in ancient China
Dec 02, 2013 (AFP)
Archaeologists in China have unearthed the skulls of more than 80 young women who may have been sacrificed more than 4,000 years ago, state media reported Monda...
Cultural revolution in China's bedrooms
Nov 28, 2013 (AFP)
A Japanese porn star prepares for a performance in her dressing room, unruffled by furious arguments outside among impatient Chinese fans eagerly anticipating h...
Study suggests inbreeding shaped course of early human evolution
Nov 28, 2013 (UPI)
Humans lived for thousands of years in small, isolated populations and resulting inbreeding shaped the course of human evolution, a U.S. researcher says. Resear...
Investments in Aging Biology Research will Pay Longevity Dividend
Nov 27, 2013 (SPX)
Finding a way to slow the biological processes of aging will do more to extend the period of healthy life in humans than attacking individual diseases alone, ac...
Research team discovers 'immune gene' in Neanderthals
Nov 26, 2013 (SPX)
A research group at Bonn University and international collaborators discovered a novel receptor, which allows the immune system of modern humans to recognize da...
Ancient, modern DNA tell story of first humans in the Americas
Nov 20, 2013 (SPX)
of Illinois anthropology professor Ripan Malhi looks to DNA to tell the story of how ancient humans first came to the Americas and what happened to them once th...
DNA of early hominid found to include 'mystery' early genes
Nov 19, 2013 (UPI)
The genome of the Denisovans, an extinct early hominid species, includes DNA that seems to have come from yet another unknown group, a U.S. scientist says. Snip...
Dogs likely originated in Europe more than 18,000 years ago
Nov 18, 2013 (SPX)
Wolves likely were domesticated by European hunter-gatherers more than 18,000 years ago and gradually evolved into dogs that became household pets, UCLA life sc...
China one-child law change small but crucial: experts
Nov 16, 2013 (AFP)
Beijing's relaxation of its hugely controversial one-child policy is an attention-grabbing first step, but it will have to usher in greater changes if China is ...
China eases one child rule, ends re-education in reform package
Nov 15, 2013 (AFP)
China's Communist rulers announced an easing of the controversial one-child policy amid a raft of sweeping pledges unveiled Friday including the abolition of "r...
Fast-mutating DNA sequences shape early development; guided evolution of uniquely human traits
Nov 14, 2013 (SPX)
What does it mean to be human? According to scientists the key lies, ultimately, in the billions of lines of genetic code that comprise the human genome. The pr...
Scientists tracking Brazilian wildlife find ancient cave paintings
Nov 07, 2013 (UPI)
Conservationists tracking wild peccaries in Brazil say they made an unexpected find -- ancient cave drawings made thousands of years ago by hunter-gatherers. Re...
Did hard-wired fear of snakes drive evolution of human vision?
Oct 29, 2013 (UPI)
The evolution of high-quality vision in our human ancestors may have been driven by a hard-wired fear of snakes, Japanese and Brazilian researchers suggest. Wri...
Study: Humans made sophisticated stone tools earlier than thought
Oct 28, 2013 (UPI)
British scientists conducting archaeological digs in Africa say they've found evidence early stone tool making was more sophisticated than originally thought. A...
Hair regeneration method is first to induce new human hair growth
Oct 28, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) have devised a hair restoration method that can generate new human hair growth, rather than simply redi...
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