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Origins of human language pathway in the brain at least 25 million years old
Apr 22, 2020 (SPX)
Previously, a precursor of the language pathway was thought by many scientists to have emerged more recently, about 5 million years ago, with a common ancestor ...
Genomics help scientists estimate the population size of the first Samoans
Apr 15, 2020 (UPI)
From approximately 3,000 to 1,000 years ago, between 700 and 3,400 people lived on the island of Samoa. Roughly 1,000 years ago, the island's population explode...
Ancient string discovery sheds light on Neanderthal life
Apr 10, 2020 (SPX)
Bruce Hardy and colleagues discovered a six-millimetre-long cord fragment consisting of three bundles of fibres twisted together and adhering to a 60-millimetre...
The evolution of arthritic knees
Apr 08, 2020 (SPX)
In a new study of the genetic features that help make this sophisticated joint possible, an international team of researchers found that the regulatory switches...
Squatting or kneeling may have health benefits
Apr 06, 2020 (SPX)
A USC-led study shows that squatting and kneeling may be important resting positions in human evolution - and even for modern human health. Sitting for hours a ...
Oldest ever human genetic evidence clarifies dispute over our ancestors
Apr 06, 2020 (SPX)
An important advancement in human evolution studies has been achieved after scientists retrieved the oldest human genetic data set from an 800,000-year-old toot...
How dopamine drives brain activity
Apr 06, 2020 (SPX)
Dopamine plays many roles in the brain, most notably related to movement, motivation, and reinforcement of behavior. However, until now it has been difficult to...
Lucy had an ape-like brain
Apr 06, 2020 (SPX)
They walked upright, had brains that were around 20 percent larger than those of chimpanzees, may have used sharp stone tools," explains senior author Zeresenay...
Ancient hominins had small brains like apes, but longer childhoods like humans
Apr 06, 2020 (SPX)
That means these hominins - the species Australopithecus afarensis, made famous by the Lucy and Dikika child fossils found in Ethiopia - had a mosaic of ape and...
Isolated and afraid: How the pandemic is changing pregnancy
Apr 03, 2020 (AFP)
Trapped intially by violent pro-democracy protests and tear gas, and then by the coronavirus -- she now faces giving birth alone, with her husband unlikely to s...
When three species of human ancestor walked the Earth
Apr 03, 2020 (SPX)
Years of painstaking excavation at the fossil-rich site of Drimolen, nestled within the Cradle of Humankind (a UNESCO World Heritage site located just 40 kilome...
Our direct human ancestor Homo erectus is older than we thought
Apr 03, 2020 (SPX)
The rolling hills northwest of Johannesburg are famous for fossils of human-like creatures called hominins. Because of this, the area is known as the Cradle of ...
Ancient human relative Lucy's brain was surprisingly ape-like
Apr 01, 2020 (UPI)
Lucy, which lived between 3.9 and 2.9 million years ago in Africa, is thought to be a close relative of the Homo genus, which includes modern humans. But new re...
2-million-year-old fossils suggest human ancestor was a tree climber
Mar 31, 2020 (UPI)
The earliest hominins walked upright on two legs, and scientists suspect they evolved from apes that had descended from the trees and begun traversing the land....
Neanderthals were eating mussels, fish, seals 80K years ago
Mar 30, 2020 (UPI)
Researchers have previously hypothesized that early humans in Africa first gained advanced cognitive abilities by eating seafood rich in brain-boosting omega-3 ...
Nextdoor, the network for neighbors, grows in age of social distancing
Mar 29, 2020 (AFP)
For people forced to stay home to ride out the coronavirus pandemic, Nextdoor, a hyperlocal social network, has found itself playing an increasingly important r...
New brain reading technology could help the development of brainwave-controlled devices
Mar 23, 2020 (SPX)
The research in mice, published in Science Advances, developed an accurate and scalable method to record brain activity across large areas, including on the sur...
Scientists unveil smaller, more powerful brain-machine interface
Mar 23, 2020 (UPI)
Scientists described the new device in the journal Science Advances. "Nobody has taken these 2D silicon electronics and matched them to the three-dimensional ar...
Dating in the time of coronavirus: chat online, meet much later
Mar 19, 2020 (AFP)
"We don't know who needs to hear this, but now is NOT the time to go out with your date to a bar," leading match-maker OkCupid tweeted on Monday. "FaceTime, Sky...
Loners help society survive, say Princeton ecologists
Mar 19, 2020 (SPX)
But loners exist across the natural world, and they might just serve a purpose, said Corina Tarnita, an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology....
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