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'Little Foot' skull reveals how this more than 3 million year old human ancestor lived
Mar 18, 2020 (SPX)
The meticulous excavation, cleaning and scanning of the skull of the ~3.67 million-year-old fossil specimen has revealed the most complete Australopithecus adul...
Ancient ballcourt in Mexico shows sport much older than thought
Mar 16, 2020 (UPI)
A ballcourt found in Chiapas, Mexico, dates to 1650 B.C. and is the oldest found in the lowlands, but researchers from George Washington University found one in...
Scientists classify neurons by measuring their jiggle during a heartbeat
Mar 11, 2020 (UPI)
"The beginning of the study was the realization that spike waveforms measured in the brains of epilepsy patients showed robust and periodic -- i.e. repeatable -...
Neuroscientists watch brains replay memories in real time
Mar 06, 2020 (UPI)
For the study, researchers at the National Institutes of Health monitored the neural activity of epilepsy patients while they learned word pairings. Scientists ...
Long-overlooked arch is key to fuction, evolution of human foot
Feb 26, 2020 (UPI)
When humans walk and run, a significant amount of pressure is placed on the foot -- a force exceeding several times the body's weight. Despite this pressure, th...
Analysis reveals prehistoric migration from Africa, Asia, Europe to Mediterranean
Feb 26, 2020 (UPI)
For the study, scientists sequenced the DNA of prehistoric individuals recovered from Sicily, Sardinia and the Balearic Islands. The study increased the number ...
Earliest evidence of hominin interbreeding revealed by DNA analysis
Feb 21, 2020 (UPI)
In 2017, anthropologist Alan Rogers claimed to have found genetic evidence of an early separation of Neanderthal and Denisovan lineages and a population bottlen...
Ancient plant foods found in northern Australia
Feb 21, 2020 (UPI)
The bits of plant food, preserved as charcoal in ancient cooking hearths, have offered scientists new insights into the diets of the indigenous Australians. The...
An adaptive gut microbiome might have shaped human evolution
Feb 19, 2020 (UPI)
New research suggests the unique nature of the human microbiome may have shaped human evolution and the dispersal of humans across the globe. For the study, pub...
New Neanderthal skeleton unearthed from 'flower burial' site
Feb 18, 2020 (UPI)
The remains, torso bones and crushed skull, have offered researchers a chance to study the burial practices of Neanderthals. Roughly half a century ago, the par...
Researchers were not right about left brains
Feb 17, 2020 (SPX)
Left and right hemisphere differ subtly in brain anatomy, the distribution of nerve cells, their connectivity and neurochemistry. Asymmetries of outer brain sha...
Human language most likely evolved gradually
Feb 14, 2020 (SPX)
Two recent publications by researchers at the University of Barcelona (UB), led by Cedric Boeckx, ICREA Research professor from the Section of General Linguisti...
'Ghost' of mysterious hominin found in West African genomes
Feb 14, 2020 (SPX)
The authors' computer modeling technique overcomes these challenges, enabling the discovery of genetic contributions from archaic hominins when fossils or DNA a...
Mud wasp nests used to date ancient Australian rock art
Feb 06, 2020 (UPI)
Previous surveys suggested some Kimberley painting were 16,000 years old, but the latest findings proved the Aboriginal rock art was much younger. "This is the ...
Is human cooperativity an outcome of competition between cultural groups?
Feb 05, 2020 (SPX)
The hotly contested issue is why we are the famed cooperators of the animal kingdom. The answer is thought to be some characteristic that is exaggerated in huma...
New study identifies Neanderthal ancestry in African populations and describes its origin
Feb 03, 2020 (SPX)
A comparable catalogue of Neanderthal ancestry in African populations, however, has remained an acknowledged blind spot for the field due to technical constrain...
Early North Americans may have been more diverse than previously suspected
Jan 30, 2020 (SPX)
Debate about the origins of the earliest humans in the Americas has relied on relatively little data, in part due to the rarity of early human remains in North ...
Researchers develop method to assess geographic origins of ancient humans
Jan 29, 2020 (SPX)
John Samuelsen, doctoral candidate in anthropology and research assistant at the Arkansas Archeological Survey, analyzed linear patterning of lead isotopes on t...
New study debunks myth of Cahokia's Native American lost civilization
Jan 28, 2020 (SPX)
In its heyday in the 1100s, Cahokia - located in what is now southern Illinois - was the center for Mississippian culture and home to tens of thousands of Nativ...
Driven by Earth's orbit, climate changes in Africa may have aided human migration
Jan 28, 2020 (SPX)
Thinking about the ancient people and animals who would have gathered in these caves for warmth and shelter, he took up an interest in glaciology. "It was inter...
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