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Roads depress chimpanzee numbers in West Africa, study shows
Sep 15, 2021 (UPI)
According to a new study, published Wednesday in the journal Conservation Letters, a major road's negative impacts on chimpanzee populations can extend up to 10...
Milk fueled migration across Eurasian steppe 5,000 years ago
Sep 15, 2021 (UPI)
For thousands of years, Eurasia has played host to human movement and mixing, with recent surveys revealing genetic links between Scandinavia and Siberia. Now, ...
We hear what we want to hear, new study confirms
Sep 14, 2021 (UPI)
They're not far off. New research confirms that people lend greater credence to sources of information confirming what they already believe to be true -- or at ...
New fossil found in China answers some questions about apes' evolutionary chain
Sep 14, 2021 (UPI)
The fossil was unearthed in China's Yunnan province and scientists say it dates back several million years further than existing specimens, according to the fin...
The world's languages may be so similar because of how humans talk about language
Sep 14, 2021 (SPX)
Traditionally, linguists either assume that the explanation for these similarities is that all people are born with a blueprint for these grammatical categories...
Data show formula for artistic success: Creative exploration followed by exploitation
Sep 13, 2021 (UPI)
Now, new research -- published Monday in the journal Nature Communications -- suggests these breakthroughs follow a relatively common formula: creative explorat...
Remote work curbs communication, collaboration, study finds
Sep 09, 2021 (UPI)
The study of 61,000 Microsoft employees -- published Thursday in the journal Nature Human Behavior -- found remote work led to more siloed lines of communicatio...
The evolution of mammals reveals 2,000 new genes key to longevity in humans
Sep 09, 2021 (SPX)
In the case of mammals, their life expectancy varies hugely, ranging from short-lived species like shrews and mice - which, with luck, reach two years of age - ...
Environmental conditions of early humans in Europe
Sep 09, 2021 (SPX)
The research is part of the Orce project (ProyectORCE) funded by the local government of Andalucia and led by the University of Granada, in which researchers fr...
Archaeologists say skeleton shows earliest surgical amputation 31,000 years ago
Sep 07, 2021 (UPI)
The skeleton was found in a remote cave in 2020 by a team of Australian and Indonesian archaeologists. The left leg of the skeleton shows what the scientists be...
Study reveals link between microbiome, early brain development
Sep 03, 2021 (UPI)
The gut microbiome is composed of thousands of species of bacteria, fungi, viruses and other microbes. In healthy people, the community remains relatively stabl...
America's first civilization was made up of 'sophisticated' engineers
Sep 03, 2021 (SPX)
Far from the simplicity of life sometimes portrayed in anthropology books, these early Indigenous people were highly skilled engineers capable of building massi...
Prehistoric climate change repeatedly channelled human migrations across Arabia
Sep 02, 2021 (SPX)
The new findings, including the oldest dated evidence for humans in Arabia at 400,000 years ago, are described as a "breakthrough in Arabian archaeology" by Dr ...
Study links articulation, gender to vocal attractiveness
Aug 31, 2021 (UPI)
For the study, scientists at the University of California, Irvine and the University of Utah recorded 42 individuals reading sentences. A separate group of stud...
Remains found in British well provide insight into Ashkenazi genetic 'bottleneck'
Aug 30, 2021 (UPI)
Researchers in Britain analyzed the DNA of 17 bodies found at the bottom of a medieval well in Norwich, Britain, and found that six of them had "strong genetic ...
Central European prehistory was highly dynamic
Aug 26, 2021 (SPX)
The genetic profiles of people associated with Funnelbeaker and Globular Amphora cultures show evidence of being recent migrants to the region. This finding sho...
Believing leisure is wasteful reduces happiness
Aug 25, 2021 (SPX)
The findings from four studies appear in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. "While work can impart meaning and a sense of purpose in life, leisure, ...
Ancient DNA from human skeleton in Southeast Asia gives rare glimpse of past
Aug 25, 2021 (UPI)
The discovery, which was made in 2015, was detailed Wednesday in the journal Nature Genetics. Experts say that ancient DNA is difficult to find in Southeast Asi...
Od bones show that humans' oldest-known ancestor could climb like an ape
Aug 25, 2021 (UPI)
The study was done on the fossilized remains of what's known as Sahelanthropus tchadensis, which were discovered two decades ago in central Africa. The remains ...
Humans ditched swivelling hips for shorter stride than chimps
Aug 23, 2021 (SPX)
However, until recently, most scientists believed that the human stride was relatively long for efficiency; "this is taught in almost every introductory class a...
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