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World population likely to shrink after mid-century
Jul 27, 2020 (SPX)
The USA is projected to have population growth until just after mid-century (364 million in 2062), followed by a moderate decline of less than 10% to 336 millio...
Neanderthals may have had a weak pain threshold
Jul 23, 2020 (UPI)
Scientists found some modern humans -- mostly in central and south America, but also in Europe -- have inherited the Neanderthal variant of the pain-related gen...
Spider monkey groups use collective computation to forage for food
Jul 22, 2020 (UPI)
Mexico's wild spider monkeys form fission-fusion societies -- when it's time to forage for food, the larger society splits into smaller groups -- according to a...
Study reveals differences between nobles, commoners in Middle Ages
Jul 15, 2020 (UPI)
The research, that was published in the journal Heritage Science earlier this month, looked at 87 samples taken from femoral bones from 69 individuals from Sven...
Racism in the UK: the effects of a 'hostile environment'
Jun 30, 2020 (AFP)
But two years after a scandal involving the "Windrush" generation of 500,000 Caribbean migrants who came to Britain after World War Two, race and identity remai...
In the wild, chimpanzees are more motivated to cooperate than bonobos
Jun 26, 2020 (SPX)
According to one prominent theory, the interdependence hypothesis, the cognitive skills underlying unique human cooperative abilities evolved when several indiv...
Early peoples in Pacific Northwest were smoking smooth sumac
Jun 26, 2020 (UPI)
The discovery, described this week in the journal Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, marks the first time researchers have recovered non-tobacco residues from ...
Archaeologists find ancient circle of deep shafts near Stonehenge
Jun 23, 2020 (UPI)
The discovery suggests that roughly 4,500 years ago, Neolithic builders -- the same people who constructed Stonehenge -- dug a series of deep shafts, forming a ...
Neandertal genes in the petri dish
Jun 19, 2020 (SPX)
Studies have found that about two percent of the genomes of modern humans from outside Africa are composed of Neandertal DNA. This archaic DNA is a result of ma...
A Neandertal from Chagyrskaya Cave
Jun 18, 2020 (SPX)
The researchers also show that the Chagyrskaya Neandertal was more closely related to the Croatian than to the other Siberian Neandertal which lived some 40,000...
Discovery of oldest bow and arrow technology in Eurasia
Jun 15, 2020 (SPX)
The island of Sri Lanka in the Indian Ocean, just south of the Indian subcontinent, is home to the earliest fossils of our species, Homo sapiens, in South Asia....
Cave remains offer new insights into Paleolithic mortuary rituals
Jun 15, 2020 (UPI)
The cave, found in southwestern France at the end of the last century, was originally occupied by members of the Gravettian culture, approximately 30,000 years ...
US top court in landmark ruling to protect LGBT workers
Jun 15, 2020 (AFP)
In a blow to the administration of President Donald Trump, the court ruled by six votes to three that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlaws d...
Tiny songbird is East Asia's 'oldest' carved artwork
Jun 10, 2020 (AFP)
The carefully crafted depiction of a songbird on a pedestal -- smaller than an almond kernel -- was found among burnt animal remains and fragments of ceramics a...
DNA helps researchers understand interactions between Stone Age cultures
Jun 05, 2020 (UPI)
Funnel Beaker culture featured Scandinavia's earliest farmers. Pitted Ware culture practiced mostly hunting and fishing. Battle Axe culture was characterized by...
Genomic researchers detail the peopling of the Caribbean
Jun 05, 2020 (UPI)
Thanks to new analysis of the genomes of 93 ancient Caribbean islanders, researchers are gaining new insights into Caribbean's earliest settlers. Research into ...
Neanderthals, Denisovans, genetically closer than brown and polar bears
Jun 03, 2020 (UPI)
In a new study, published Wednesday in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, scientists quantified the genetic differences between early humans and th...
Neuroscientists find possible physical traces of short-term memories
Jun 02, 2020 (UPI)
In the early 20th century, the German scientist Richard Semon, a memory researcher and evolutionary biologist, coined the term "engram" for the physical substra...
Information technology played key role in growth of ancient civilizations
May 28, 2020 (SPX)
That's according to a new paper in Nature Communications that shows the ability to store and process information was as critical to the growth of early human so...
Chimpanzee groups each have their own unique termite fishing cultures
May 27, 2020 (SPX)
To better understand this diversity, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, initiated the 'Pan African Progr...
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