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Orangutans instinctively use hammers to strike and sharp stones to cut
Feb 17, 2022 (SPX)
The researchers tested tool making and use in two captive male orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) at Kristiansand Zoo in Norway. Neither had previously been trained or...
Watch a chimpanzee mother apply an insect to a wound on her son
Feb 08, 2022 (SPX)
In November 2019, Alessandra Mascaro (@alessandra_masc), a volunteer at the Ozouga Chimpanzee Project, observed a chimpanzee named Suzee inspecting a wound on t...
Where did that sound come from?
Feb 02, 2022 (SPX)
MIT neuroscientists have now developed a computer model that can also perform that complex task. The model, which consists of several convolutional neural netwo...
First evidence of long-term directionality in the origination of human mutation
Feb 02, 2022 (SPX)
The results show that the HbS mutation is not generated at random but instead originates preferentially in the gene and in the population where it is of adaptiv...
12,000-year-old rock art in North America
Jan 28, 2022 (SPX)
After carving, this layer forms again on the petroglyphs and grows over the years. "We compared intact rock varnish with the varnish of the engravings and were ...
23,000 years ago, humans in Israel enjoyed a new bounty of food options
Jan 27, 2022 (SPX)
The submerged archaeological site of Ohalo II, located on the southern tip of the Sea of Galilee in Israel, preserves extensive evidence of human occupation abo...
Cracking chimpanzee culture
Jan 25, 2022 (SPX)
Humans have a complex culture that enables them to copy behaviors from others. As such, human culture is cumulative, since skills and technologies accumulate ov...
China's birth rate at record low in 2021: official
Jan 17, 2022 (AFP)
Beijing has been grappling with a looming demographic crisis as it faces a rapidly ageing workforce, slowing economy and the country's weakest population growth...
Earliest human remains in eastern Africa dated to more than 230,000 years ago
Jan 13, 2022 (SPX)
The remains - known as Omo I - were found in Ethiopia in the late 1960s, and scientists have been attempting to date them precisely ever since, by using the che...
European archaeologists back in Iraq after years of war
Jan 12, 2022 (AFP)
"Come and see!" shouted an overjoyed French researcher recently at a desert dig in Larsa, southern Iraq, where the team had unearthed a 4,000-year-old cuneiform...
Rare African script offers clues to the evolution of writing
Jan 11, 2022 (SPX)
But despite its impact on daily life, we know little about how writing evolved in its earliest years. With so few sites of origin, the first traces of writing a...
Anthropologists study the energetics of uniquely human subsistence strategies
Jan 04, 2022 (SPX)
A group of anthropologists from UC Santa Barbara, the University of Utah and Duke University have teamed up on a research study to understand the strategies hum...
Ancient DNA reveals the world's oldest family tree
Jan 01, 2022 (SPX)
By analysing DNA extracted from the bones and teeth of 35 individuals entombed at Hazleton North long cairn in the Cotswolds-Severn region, the research team wa...
For some Greenlanders, eating sugar is healthy
Jan 01, 2022 (SPX)
Two copies of a gene variant make it so that they absorb sugar differently than other people do. "Adult Greenlanders with the genetic variation have lower BMI, ...
New dates for Viking trade
Jan 01, 2022 (SPX)
In collaboration with the Museum of Southwest Jutland in the Northern Emporium Project, the team has conducted a major excavation at Ribe, one of Viking-age Sca...
Out of Africa: The path of Homo sapiens
Jan 01, 2022 (SPX)
The cradle of man is in Africa - this has been known for half a century. A decade ago, scholarly discussion was still dominated by the idea that a small group o...
Ancient DNA study reveals large scale migrations into Bronze Age Britain
Jan 01, 2022 (SPX)
In the largest such analysis published to date, scientists examined the DNA of nearly 800 ancient individuals The new study, led by the University of York, Harv...
Too many gorillas? The great apes' hunt for space in Rwanda
Dec 23, 2021 (AFP)
With hundreds of mountain gorillas in residence, the Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda is a conservation triumph. But this resurgence is not without consequence...
Building on tradition: Iraqi labourer preserves calligraphic art
Dec 23, 2021 (AFP)
Though he has won awards in numerous competitions, Hussein acknowledged that "you can't live on this", the artistic handwriting of Arabic script. "I have a big ...
Researchers uncover 168 new Nazca geoglyphs
Dec 21, 2021 (UPI)
The geoglyphs portray humans, birds, cats, snakes, alpacas and whales, and are believed to have been created between 100 B.C. and 300 A.D. The images average be...
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