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Rapid human brain and skull changes outpace other apes in evolutionary race
Oct 27, 2025 (SPX)
The analysis compared skulls from seven hominid species, including humans, gorillas, and chimpanzees, as well as nine hylobatid species such as gibbons. While h...
Guinea baboons implement social structure when distributing meat
Oct 27, 2025 (SPX)
Guinea baboons (Papio papio) live in a multi-level social structure: units consist of a male and several females with young, a cluster of units forms a party, a...
European hunter-gatherers altered landscapes long before farming
Oct 27, 2025 (SPX)
Researchers investigated two warm periods in European prehistory. The Last Interglacial, around 125000 - 116000 years ago, witnessed Neanderthals as its sole hu...
Bionic Eye Restores Reading Vision for Patients Blinded by Macular Degeneration
Oct 21, 2025 (SPX)
The multicenter PRIMAvera clinical trial enrolled 38 participants aged over 60 across 17 hospitals in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands. Withi...
'Let them live in peace': survivor's fight for uncontacted Amazon people
Oct 09, 2025 (AFP)
Instead he has dedicated himself to campaigning for Brazil's isolated communities to be left alone. "I am here to tell the story of my people," Marima told AFP ...
Jane Goodall's final wish: blast Trump, Musk and Putin to space
Oct 08, 2025 (AFP)
In a Netflix interview aired posthumously, Jane Goodall, who died last week at 91, said she'd gladly send Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping an...
World-renowned chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall dies at 91
Oct 01, 2025 (AFP)
Goodall "died peacefully in her sleep while in Los Angeles" on a speaking tour of the United States, the Jane Goodall Institute said in a statement on Instagram...
Morocco High Atlas whistle language strives for survival
Sep 25, 2025 (AFP)
"The whistle language is our telephone," joked Hammou, 59, the elder of a family known for the tradition in Imzerri, a hamlet in the remote commune of Tilouguit...
Oldest practice of smoke-dried mummification traced to Asia Pacific hunter gatherers
Sep 17, 2025 (SPX)
The research indicates ancient hunter-gatherer societies practiced corpse preservation by folding and binding the dead before suspending them over smoky fires f...
AI helps UK woman rediscover lost voice after 25 years
Aug 22, 2025 (AFP)
A British woman suffering from motor neurone disease who lost her ability to speak is once again talking in her own voice thanks to artificial intelligence and ...
Cold climate origins of primates challenge long held tropical forest theory
Aug 16, 2025 (SPX)
Using fossil evidence and statistical modelling, scientists reconstructed the ancient habitats of the earliest primates. Their findings, published in PNAS, poin...
New Ethiopian fossil find reveals unknown Australopithecus species alongside early Homo
Aug 15, 2025 (SPX)
An international team led by UNLV anthropologist Brian Villmoare uncovered 13 teeth at Ethiopia's Ledi-Geraru site, dating between 2.6 and 2.8 million years ago...
Scrumped fruit shaped ape evolution and human fondness for alcohol
Aug 15, 2025 (SPX)
Published in BioScience, the study is the first to investigate why humans have such an exceptional capacity to digest alcohol. Researchers analyzed a large obse...
Changes in diet drove physical evolution in early humans
Aug 01, 2025 (SPX)
But a new Dartmouth-led study shows that hominins began feasting on these carbohydrate-rich foods before they had the ideal teeth to do so. The study provides t...
Japan's World Cosplay Summit to escape summer heat in 2027
Aug 01, 2025 (SPX)
4,000-year-old teeth record the earliest traces of people chewing psychoactive betel nuts
Aug 01, 2025 (SPX)
Yet, teeth without staining may not mean that people didn't chew betel nuts. Now, using a new method, an international team of researchers examined ancient dent...
China says childcare subsidies to 'add new impetus' to economy
Jul 30, 2025 (AFP)
Authorities in the world's second-largest economy on Monday declared the new nationwide policy, which offers parents the equivalent of around $500 per child und...
One man's 30 years of toil to save Sierra Leone's orphaned chimps
Jul 30, 2025 (AFP)
Standing in his Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary not far from the capital Freetown, he tenderly patted a young ape's nose and stroked its cheek, whispering a few w...
Hong Kong activists face tough compromise over LGBTQ rights blueprint
Jul 29, 2025 (AFP)
The city's top court confined marriage to heterosexual couples in 2023 but ordered the government to create an "alternative framework" to recognise same-sex cou...
Adopted in US, Greek Cold War kids find long-lost families
Jul 24, 2025 (AFP)
Always knowing she came from Greece, she rediscovered her long-lost sister Sophia, who lives in the Athens area, and regained her Greek nationality two years ag...
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