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Neanderthals had the teeth to eat hard plants
Jan 17, 2020 (UPI)
Several recent studies have highlighted the resourcefulness of Neanderthals, capable of diving for clams and starting their own fires. But to take advantage of ...
Tool-making Neanderthals dove for the perfect clam shell
Jan 16, 2020 (UPI)
The study relied on archaeological evidence collected by researchers in 1949: dozens of clam shells found in Grotta dei Moscerini, an Italian cave just steps fr...
Ancient hominid disease defenses contribute to adaptation of modern humans
Jan 15, 2020 (SPX)
How much of our hominid cousins remains in each of us today, and whether or not the presence of ancient hominid DNA has conferred any adaptation advantages or d...
Titi monkeys support 'male services' theory for mammalian pair bonding
Jan 15, 2020 (UPI)
To better understand the characteristics of and motivations behind pair bonding, scientists closely monitored relationships among titi monkeys. The findings sug...
Early humans revealed to have engineered optimized stone tools at Olduvai Gorge
Jan 13, 2020 (SPX)
The research, published in the Journal of Royal Society Interface, shows that Palaeolithic hominins selected different raw materials for different stone tools b...
Study pinpoints the timing of earliest human migration
Jan 10, 2020 (UPI)
Until now, scientists have struggled to figure out the precise timing of the hominin migrations that populated Java. New estimates, based on a unique fossil dat...
The growing pains of orphan chimpanzees
Jan 08, 2020 (SPX)
To address this, the researchers used a dataset comprising 18 years of research effort on three groups of wild chimpanzees at the Tai Forest, Cote d'Ivoire, to ...
Humans were making tools out of stone more than 1 million years ago
Jan 07, 2020 (UPI)
New research suggests the decisions made by tool makers among Early Stone Age hominins accounted for both the requirements of specific tasks and the unique mech...
Early modern humans cooked starchy food in South Africa, 170,000 years ago
Jan 07, 2020 (SPX)
"This discovery is much older than earlier reports for cooking similar plants and it provides a fascinating insight into the behavioural practices of early mode...
Territorial conflicts suppress female chimpanzees' reproductive success
Jan 03, 2020 (UPI)
What motivated chimps to work together? At least one possibility, new research suggests, is that conflict has a negative impact on wild female chimpanzees' repr...
Researchers determine age for last known settlement by a direct ancestor to modern humans
Dec 30, 2019 (SPX)
But about 400,000 years ago, Homo erectus essentially vanished. The lone exception was a spot called Ngandong, on the Indonesian island of Java. But scientists ...
Chimpanzees likely to share tools, teach skills when task is more complex
Dec 27, 2019 (UPI)
Scientists have previously noted that tool-sharing among chimpanzees represented a form of teaching, but that chimps learn primarily through watching and mimick...
Researchers reconstruct spoken words as processed in nonhuman primate brains
Dec 16, 2019 (SPX)
"What we've done is to record the complex patterns of neural excitation in the secondary auditory cortex associated with primates' hearing specific words," said...
Unearthing the mystery of the meaning of Easter Island's Moai
Dec 16, 2019 (SPX)
Ancient Rapanui carvers worked at the behest of the elite ruling class to carve nearly 1,000 Moai because they, and the community at large, believed the statues...
How humans learnt to dance; from the Chimpanzee Conga
Dec 13, 2019 (SPX)
Two chimpanzees housed in a zoo in the US have sparked the question about how human dance evolved after being observed performing a duo dance-like behaviour, si...
Narcissism changes during a person's life span
Dec 10, 2019 (UPI)
Previous studies on narcissism have mostly focused on small groups and cross-sectional population samples across short periods of time. Until now, there was lit...
Secrets of orangutan 'language' revealed
Dec 10, 2019 (SPX)
In the first in-depth study of gestures among wild orangutans, University of Exeter scientists identified 11 vocal signals and 21 physical "gesture types". Soun...
World's oldest figurative cave painting depicts ancient hunting scene
Dec 10, 2019 (SPX)
The painting was first discovered by Hamrullah, an Indonesian spelunker and archaeologist, while working on a government survey in 2017. After noticing a hole i...
Scientists slam Chinese CRISPR babies research after manuscript released
Dec 03, 2019 (AFP)
Excerpts from the manuscript were released by the MIT Technology Review for the purpose of showing how Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui ignored ethical and scien...
Habsburg jaw likely caused by inbreeding, study finds
Dec 02, 2019 (UPI)
Scientists in Spain and South Africa analyzed royal portraits and family trees to find out whether there was a link between facial deformities and a person's de...
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