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WHO warns of obesity 'epidemic' in Europe
May 03, 2022 (AFP)
Obesity rates in the region have ballooned by 138 percent in the past five decades, the World Health Organization said in a new report, and are linked to a seri...
Neanderthals of the north
Apr 27, 2022 (SPX)
In a recent study, researchers from MPI-EVA, FAU, Leuphana University Luneburg, LIAG and other partner institutions have now investigated the remains of Neander...
Gabon counts on visitors to help preserve great apes
Apr 22, 2022 (AFP)
Perched on a strong branch, the 150-kilo (330-pound) beast greedily pulls more leaves from the tree to his mouth with a slow but powerful movement before lumber...
Discovery sheds light on why the Pacific islands were colonized
Apr 22, 2022 (SPX)
The new study makes clear the initial expansion of the Lapita people throughout Papua New Guinea was far greater than previously thought. The study, published i...
Study challenges theories of earlier human arrival in Americas
Apr 22, 2022 (SPX)
Conducted by University of Wyoming Professor Todd Surovell and colleagues from UW and five other institutions, the analysis suggests that misinterpretation of a...
Prehistoric people created art by firelight, new research reveals
Apr 21, 2022 (SPX)
The stones were incised with artistic designs around 15,000 years ago and have patterns of heat damage which suggests they were carved close to the flickering l...
'Worse to be gay than corrupt' in Venezuela's military
Apr 20, 2022 (AFP)
Both had clean records with Venezuela's armed forces, but being gay brought them persecution, discrimination and humiliation before they left. Venezuela's milit...
Early human habitats linked to past climate shifts
Apr 14, 2022 (SPX)
The impact of climate change on human evolution has long been suspected, but has been difficult to demonstrate due to the paucity of climate records near human ...
Brazil's Lula slams Bolsonaro indigenous policies
Apr 12, 2022 (AFP)
Speaking at a protest by thousands of indigenous people who are camping out in the capital, Brasilia, to protest Bolsonaro's policies, Lula drew loud cheers wit...
Brazil's first indigenous fashion show 'a form of resistance'
Apr 10, 2022 (AFP)
"It is a feeling of happiness and pride," 19-year-old model Moan Munduruku told AFP ahead of his turn on the catwalk in Manaus in the Brazilian Amazon. "We are ...
Neolithic made us taller and more intelligent but more prone to heart disease
Apr 07, 2022 (SPX)
Just like plants, animals and other organisms, humans are dynamic organisms with variable traits. Look at how humans behave and their appearance and you will se...
The dark matter of the brain
Apr 07, 2022 (SPX)
Neurons communicate via synapses, small contact points at which chemical messengers transmit a stimulus from one cell to the next. We may remember this from bio...
Tools reveal patterns of Neandertal extinction in the Iberian Peninsula
Mar 31, 2022 (SPX)
Neandertals disappeared around 40,000 years ago, but many details of their extinction remain unclear. To elucidate the situation, it is useful to explore how Ne...
New predictive model helps in identify ancient hunter-gatherer sites
Mar 18, 2022 (SPX)
Archaeologists at the Max Planck Institute and Simon Fraser University are gaining new insights from a computer predictive model that can assess the likelihood ...
Ancient campfires reveal a 50,000 year old grocer and pharmacy
Mar 17, 2022 (SPX)
They found wattle and other Acacias which proves it was (and still is) used by Indigenous people for tools, food and medicine. The iconic wattle isn't just abou...
Early humans kept old stone tools to preserve memory of their ancestors
Mar 08, 2022 (SPX)
The study was led by PhD student Bar Efrati and Prof. Ran Barkai of the Jacob M. Alkow Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures at TAU's Enti...
Grains hints at origin of 7,000-year-old Swiss pile dwellings
Mar 08, 2022 (SPX)
When workers discovered the first pile-dwelling settlement on Lake Zurich in the mid-19th century, a whole new area of archaeological research was born. Since t...
Archaeologists discover innovative 40,000-year-old culture in China
Mar 07, 2022 (SPX)
In the search for answers, the Nihewan Basin in northern China, with a wealth of archaeological sites ranging in age from 2 million to 10,000 years ago, provide...
University of Oxford researchers create largest ever human family tree
Mar 02, 2022 (SPX)
The past two decades have seen extraordinary advancements in human genetic research, generating genomic data for hundreds of thousands of individuals, including...
Shelter for traumatised apes in DR Congo's strife-torn east
Feb 21, 2022 (AFP)
On the edge of a national park that is home to endangered gorillas, the Lwiro Ape Rehabilitation Centre (CRPL) has for two decades nursed wounded and traumatise...
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