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Chimpanzees help trace the evolution of human speech back to ancient ancestors
May 27, 2020 (SPX)
The evolution of speech is one of the longest-standing puzzles of evolution. However, inklings of a possible solution started emerging some years ago when monke...
Similar to humans, chimpanzees develop slowly
May 27, 2020 (SPX)
Children still need to learn fundamental skills such as walking, eating, talking, using tools and much more. The timing of when these developmental milestones e...
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...
Ancient genomes reveal 7,000 years of demographic history in France
May 26, 2020 (UPI)
"There were almost no data from ancient populations on the territory of present-day France and our study begins to fill a gap that leads to a clearer picture of...
Artificial intelligence can predict a person's personality using only a selfie
May 22, 2020 (UPI)
Computer models, with only a selfie to go by, proved better in tests at predicting a person's personality than human raters. Studies have shown links between fa...
Italy's genetic diversity goes back at least 19,000 years, study says
May 22, 2020 (UPI)
In addition to the deep history of the region's genetic diversity, dating to the Late Glacial Maximum, the genomic survey of modern and ancient Italians showed ...
Supercomputer model simulations reveal cause of Neanderthal extinction
May 21, 2020 (SPX)
Neanderthals lived in Eurasia for at least 300,000 years. Then, around 43 to 38 thousand years ago they quickly disappeared off the face of the earth, leaving o...
Scientists discover oldest link between Native Americans, ancient Siberians
May 20, 2020 (UPI)
Modern humans have populated the lands surrounding Lake Baikal since the Upper Paleolithic. Previous studies of the region's population dynamics suggest the tra...
Brazil tribe facing 'genocide': rights group
May 19, 2020 (AFP)
The Awa Guaja, a hunter-gatherer tribe of around 400 people in the Amazon rainforest, has lost huge tracts of land to deforestation in recent years, making them...
New study records dual hand use in early human relative
May 19, 2020 (SPX)
The human lineage can be defined by a transition in hand use. Early human ancestors used their hands to move around in the trees, like living primates do today,...
Early humans thrived in this drowned South African landscape
May 18, 2020 (SPX)
In contrast to ice age environments elsewhere on Earth, it was a lush environment with a mild climate that disappeared under rising sea levels around 11,500 yea...
Early hominins in China adapted to changing climate with new technology
May 14, 2020 (SPX)
Stone tool comparisons between the archaeological sites of Xiaochangliang, Cenjiawan and Donggutuo indicate that technological skills increase at ca. 1.1-1.0 mi...
Study suggests remnants of human migration paths exist underwater at 'choke points'
May 13, 2020 (SPX)
But oceans have been rising for thousands of years, and this isn't the first time they have claimed land once settled by people. A new paper published in Geogra...
The oldest Upper Paleolithic Homo sapiens in Europe
May 12, 2020 (SPX)
An international research team, led by Jean-Jacques Hublin, Tsenka Tsanova and Shannon McPherron of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and ...
Evidence of Late Pleistocene human colonization of isolated islands beyond Wallace's Line
May 01, 2020 (SPX)
This study, led by scientists from the Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (MPI SHH), alongside colleagues from the...
Commuter data helps scientists define metropolitan boundaries
May 01, 2020 (UPI)
Cities have jurisdictional boundaries -- undisputed demarcation lines. But while police and policy makers may pay attention to these lines, often they demand li...
Study reveals rich genetic diversity of Vietnam
Apr 29, 2020 (SPX)
The early settlement of anatomically modern humans in MSEA dates back to at least 65 thousand years ago (kya) and is associated with the formation of a hunter-g...
Diverse livelihoods helped resilient Levanluhta people survive a climate disaster
Apr 28, 2020 (SPX)
Ever since the 17th century, human bones have been emerging from the spring-containing lake burial site at Levanluhta in Southern Ostrobothnia, western Finland....
Examining heart extractions in ancient Mesoamerica
Apr 24, 2020 (SPX)
The specific techniques performed, the instrumentation utilized, and the underlying mythology motivating sacrifices varied across civilizations. Given the diver...
Genomes suggest parallel societies persisted through end of Neolithic
Apr 23, 2020 (UPI)
To gain fresh insights into this dynamic period, researchers sequenced 96 ancient genomes recovered from burial sites in Switzerland. Though ancient burial site...
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