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How humans evolved to get along
Jun 23, 2022 (SPX)
Scientists believe bonobos might serve as an evolutionary model. The endangered primates share 99 percent of their DNA with humans and have a reputation for gen...
Healthy human brains are hotter than previously thought, exceeding 40 degrees
Jun 14, 2022 (SPX)
Previously, human brain temperature studies have relied upon data capture from brain-injured patients in intensive care, where direct brain monitoring is often ...
Pre-historic Wallacea - a melting pot of human genetic ancestries
Jun 13, 2022 (SPX)
The archaeological record attests a major cultural transition across Wallacea that started around 3,500 years ago and is associated with the expansion of Austro...
Prehistoric Swiss Army knife indicates early humans communicated
Jun 13, 2022 (SPX)
The researchers reported that the Howiesons Poort backed artefacts, also known as the 'stone Swiss Army knife' of prehistory, were made to a similar template ac...
Are we born with a moral compass
Jun 10, 2022 (SPX)
In a study recently published in Nature Human Behaviour, researchers from Osaka University, in collaboration with Otsuma Women's University, NTT Communication S...
Amazon's indigenous leaders make plea at Americas summit
Jun 08, 2022 (AFP)
Indigenous leaders from across South America are in the United States for the Summit of the Americas, a semi-regular gathering of heads of state from the Wester...
Unselfish behavior has evolutionary reasons
May 31, 2022 (SPX)
Altruism is defined as doing something that benefits someone else, at a cost to oneself. In the animal kingdom, the most astonishing examples of this selflessne...
China's population set to shrink for first time since the great famine
May 31, 2022 (SPX)
According to the latest figures from China's National Bureau of Statistics, China's population grew from 1.41212 billion to just 1.41260 billion in 2021 - a rec...
Race to save undersea Stone Age cave art masterpieces
May 30, 2022 (AFP)
Then they have to negotiate a 137-metre (yard) natural tunnel into the rock, passing through the mouth of the cave until they emerge into a huge cavern, much of...
Climate change reveals unique artefacts in melting ice patches
May 26, 2022 (SPX)
Sometime around 2000 BCE, a red-wing thrush died at Skiradalskollen in the Dovrefjell mountain range. Its small body quickly became buried under an ice patch. U...
Brazil Yanomami land turns 30 with little to celebrate
May 25, 2022 (AFP)
Located in the Amazon along the Brazil-Venezuela border, the Yanomami Indigenous Territory -- a swathe of jungle bigger than Portugal -- was established on May ...
Dancing in the light
May 25, 2022 (SPX)
However, through a combination of experiments and modeling, researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and U...
Scientists reveal how seascapes of the ancient world shaped genetic structure of European populations
May 20, 2022 (SPX)
Now, using genetic data from ancient Maltese individuals the current interdisciplinary research team has suggested a potential contributing cause. Researchers f...
Environment scientists close in on 'golden spike' to define Anthropocene
May 20, 2022 (SPX)
University of Leicester Professors Jens Zinke, Mark Williams and Jan Zalasiewicz and PhD researcher Stephen Himson presented multiple candidates for unique refe...
Risk factors for dementia may vary with age
May 19, 2022 (SPX)
"These findings can help us to more accurately predict a person's future risk of developing dementia and make individualized recommendations on lifestyle change...
Chimpanzees combine calls to form numerous vocal sequences
May 18, 2022 (SPX)
In order to retrace the evolutionary origins of human language, researchers often use a comparative approach - they compare the vocal production of other animal...
When unconscious, the brain is anything but silent
May 13, 2022 (SPX)
In a paper recently published in Neuron, researchers from the group of Professor Botond Roska at the University of Basel and the Institute of Molecular and Clin...
Bolder marmoset monkeys learn faster than shy ones
May 10, 2022 (SPX)
It has long been thought that only humans have personalities, but in recent decades personalities have been found in animals from spiders to apes. Similar perso...
Nature helps mental health, research says-but only for rich, white people?
May 08, 2022 (SPX)
The field-which combines psychology and environmental research-has produced numerous important studies detailing the benefits of nature, forests and parks on hu...
Approaching human cognition from many angles
May 08, 2022 (SPX)
For Murray, virtually any conversation is an opportunity to explore how people think and why they think in certain ways. Currently a senior double majoring in c...
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