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Vatican to shine light on Amazon's indigenous communities
Oct 06, 2019 (AFP)
The global spotlight has recently been on the world's largest rainforest, which is vital for the planet but is suffering from its worst outbreak of fires in yea...
Captive chimpanzees have a life expectancy of about 40 years
Oct 03, 2019 (UPI)
Most surveys of the chimpanzee lifespans have focused on wild apes, but many chimps live the majority of their lives in captivity. For the study, published Thur...
Babies drank animal milk from bottles at least 7,000 years ago
Sep 26, 2019 (UPI)
When researchers analyzed a series of small ceramic vessels recovered from Bronze Age and Iron Age infant graves in Bavaria, they identified the residue of nonh...
Baboons pass on scars of early adversity to their offspring
Sep 25, 2019 (UPI)
Between 1976 and 2017, a team of researchers monitored the health and development of 169 baboon mothers and nearly 700 of their offspring in Kenya's Amboseli Na...
One species, many origins
Sep 24, 2019 (SPX)
According to archaeologist Dr. Eleanor Scerri and geneticists Dr. Lounes Chikhi and Professor Mark Thomas, the quest for a single original location for modern h...
What the noggin of modern humans' ancestor would have looked like
Sep 23, 2019 (SPX)
After comparing the virtually rendered skull to those of five African fossil specimens contemporaneous with the first appearance of Homo sapiens, the two resear...
Scientists use DNA methylation to determine what Denisovans looked like
Sep 19, 2019 (UPI)
Research suggests Denisovans and Neanderthals evolved from a common ancestor. Both Neanderthals and Denisovans lived among and interbred with some groups of mod...
Ape-like pelvis found in Hungary could change the story of human evolution
Sep 18, 2019 (UPI)
The 10-million-year-old fossilized pelvis bone belongs to Rudapithecus hungaricus, a large-bodied ape that lived in Europe during the late Miocene. Previous ana...
Humans arrived in Americas earlier than thought, new Idaho artifacts suggest
Aug 30, 2019 (UPI)
The discovery, published Friday in the journal Science, supports the theory that the earliest human migrations into the Americas followed a Pacific coastal rout...
Face of Lucy's ancestors revealed by 3.8-million-year-old hominin skull in Ethiopia
Aug 28, 2019 (UPI)
The fossil's jaw and teeth suggest it belongs to the species Australopithecus anamensis, an ancestor of the famed Lucy hominin, Australopithecus afarensis. Rese...
20M year-old skull suggests complex brain evolution in monkeys, apes
Aug 22, 2019 (SPX)
The study, published in the journal Science Advances and led by researchers from the American Museum of Natural History, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and th...
Roughly half of all Neanderthals suffered from 'swimmer's ear'
Aug 15, 2019 (UPI)
Swimmer's ear is irritation of the ear canal. The condition often triggers the protrusion of dense bony growths, called external auditory exostoses, into the ea...
Five decades post-Woodstock, extracting legacy from myth
Aug 14, 2019 (AFP)
The festival carries significant cultural weight, but decades of rehashing its legend through the lens of nostalgia can leave the legacy of half a million youth...
Human genetic diversity of South America reveals complex history of Amazonia
Aug 05, 2019 (SPX)
A new study in Molecular Biology and Evolution by an international team lead by scholars from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and from...
How humans and chimpanzees travel towards a goal in rainforests
Jul 31, 2019 (SPX)
Furthermore, the Mbendjele BaYaka have created a trail system and walk mostly on trails. In contrast, one of our closest living relatives, chimpanzees, live in ...
Working memory in chimpanzees, humans works similarly
Jul 24, 2019 (UPI)
Several studies have detailed the impressive long-term memory of chimpanzees, but less is known about how the ape's working memory functions. To test chimpanzee...
Stone tool changes may show how Mesolithic hunter-gatherers responded to changing climate
Jul 22, 2019 (SPX)
As a result of warming occurring at a rate of ca. 1.5 to 2C per century, hunter-gatherers in Europe during the Mesolithic era (approximately 11,000-6,000 years ...
Out of Africa and into an archaic human melting pot
Jul 22, 2019 (SPX)
While two of the archaic groups are currently known - the Neandertals and their sister group the Denisovans from Asia - the others remain unnamed and have only ...
Machine-meshed super-humans remain stuff of fantasy
Jul 19, 2019 (AFP)
Even as Musk claimed his Neuralink startup had enabled a monkey to control a computer with its brain, experts were quick to dampen expectations for a futuristic...
Huge Neolithic settlement unearthed near Jerusalem
Jul 16, 2019 (UPI)
The ancient settlement was found when construction crews on a road-building project broke ground five miles outside of Jerusalem, near the town of Motza. Archae...
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