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Study: Human hands evolved as weapons
Dec 19, 2012 (UPI)
Hands evolved not only for manual dexterity needed to use tools or create art but also so people could make fists and fight, University of Utah researchers say....
Tracing humanity's African ancestry may mean rewriting 'out of Africa' dates
Dec 18, 2012 (SPX)
New research by a University of Alberta archeologist may lead to a rethinking of how, when and from where our ancestors left Africa. U of A researcher and anthr...
Study: Early humans had a taste for grass
Dec 17, 2012 (UPI)
About 3 million years ago the diet of our very early ancestors in central Africa is likely to have consisted mainly of tropical grasses, researchers say. A new ...
Technology has spawned 'new brain'
Dec 15, 2012 (UPI)
Technology has changed the way people think, creating "a new brain," two Italian psychology experts say. Psychologist Maria Beatrice Togo, who collaborated with...
What howler monkeys can tell us about the role of interbreeding in human evolution
Dec 12, 2012 (SPX)
Did different species of early humans interbreed and produce offspring of mixed ancestry? Recent genetic studies suggest that Neanderthals may have bred with an...
Africa's Homo sapiens were the first techies
Dec 07, 2012 (SPX)
The search for the origin of modern human behaviour and technological advancement among our ancestors in southern Africa some 70 000 years ago, has taken a step...
Skeletons in cave reveal Mediterranean secrets
Dec 06, 2012 (SPX)
Skeletal remains in an island cave in Favignana, Italy, reveal that modern humans first settled in Sicily around the time of the last ice age and despite living...
World's tallest woman dies in China: authorities
Dec 05, 2012 (AFP)
A Chinese woman who was certified as the tallest in the world has died, an official from her hometown said Wednesday. Yao Defen, of eastern China's Anhui provin...
Native Americans and Northern Europeans more closely related than previously thought
Dec 04, 2012 (SPX)
Using genetic analyses, scientists have discovered that Northern European populations-including British, Scandinavians, French, and some Eastern Europeans-desce...
Long-held memory tenet challenged
Nov 28, 2012 (UPI)
An Australian researcher has challenged a long-held view on how many information nuggets the mind can cope with before confusion sets in. In 1956, American psyc...
Archaeologists identify spear tips used in hunting a half-million years ago
Nov 20, 2012 (SPX)
A University of Toronto-led team of anthropologists has found evidence that human ancestors used stone-tipped weapons for hunting 500,000 years ago - 200,000 ye...
A 3-D light switch for the brain
Nov 20, 2012 (SPX)
A new tool for neuroscientists delivers a thousand pinpricks of light to a chunk of gray matter smaller than a sugar cube. The new fiber-optic device, created b...
Scientists improve dating of early human settlement
Nov 20, 2012 (SPX)
A Simon Fraser University archaeologist and his colleagues at the University of Queensland in Australia have significantly narrowed down the time frame during w...
Remixed brain waves reveal soundtrack of the human brain
Nov 20, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists have combined and translated two kinds of brain wave recordings into music, transforming one recording (EEG) to create the pitch and duration of a no...
Oldest home in Scotland unearthed
Nov 19, 2012 (UPI)
Construction work in a field near Edinburgh, Scotland, has unearthed the ruins of one of Britain's oldest homes, archaeologists say. The remains, thought to be ...
'Tunable' light bulb could improve sleep
Nov 16, 2012 (UPI)
Light bulbs from the Netherlands will not only illuminate a room but could help users concentrate, relax, read or even improve sleeping habits, experts say. Phi...
Photos show Einstein's brain 'different'
Nov 16, 2012 (UPI)
Recently discovered photographs of Albert Einstein's brain made after his death show it was unlike those of most people, a U.S. researcher says. After Einstein ...
Kids need at least seven minutes a day of 'vigorous' physical activity
Nov 15, 2012 (SPX)
Children need a minimum of seven minutes a day of vigorous physical activity, demonstrates recently published findings by University of Alberta medical research...
Significant relationship between mortality and telomere length discovered
Nov 15, 2012 (SPX)
A team of researchers at Kaiser Permanente and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has identified a significant relationship between mortality an...
Making Memories: Drexel Researchers Explore the Anatomy of Recollection
Nov 15, 2012 (SPX)
What was your high school mascot? Where did you put your keys last night? Who was the first president of the United States? Groups of neurons in your brain are ...
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