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Boy or girl? Hong Kong at centre of banned China gender test
May 22, 2019 (AFP)
The business thrives on a well-organised underground network that serves the huge demand for illicit sex-selective abortion in mainland China -- driven by limit...
Bonobo moms help their sons secure mating opportunities
May 21, 2019 (UPI)
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology determined the assistance of their mother improves a male's chance of becoming a father by ...
Washington first US state to legalize human composting
May 21, 2019 (AFP)
Under the new law that will go into effect in May of next year, people who die in the state will have the option to have their bodies transformed into soil suit...
Neanderthals and modern humans diverged at least 800,000 years ago
May 20, 2019 (SPX)
The research, published in Science Advances, analysed dental evolutionary rates across different hominin species, focusing on early Neanderthals. It shows that ...
Earliest evidence of the cooking and eating of starch
May 20, 2019 (SPX)
The new research by an international team of archaeologists, published in the Journal of Human Evolution, provides archaeological evidence that has previously b...
Captive chimpanzees spontaneously use tools to excavate underground food
May 20, 2019 (SPX)
Recent studies have indicated that wild chimpanzees and bearded capuchins are capable of using tools to excavate underground food such as plant roots, corms, an...
Ancient teeth suggest Neanderthals, modern humans diverged 800,000 years ago
May 16, 2019 (UPI)
Using the 430,000-year-old teeth of hominins recovered from Sima de los Huesos, a cave in Spain, researchers were able to quantify the rate of dental evolution ...
Ancient chewing gum reveals Scandinavia's oldest human DNA
May 15, 2019 (UPI)
Researchers found the masticated lumps of birch bark pitch, a sap-like tar, among the remains of an early Mesolithic hunter-fisher site called Huseby Klev, loca...
New data platform illuminates history of humans' environmental impact
May 15, 2019 (SPX)
Now, that story is available digitally through a new open-access data platform known as ZooArchNet, which links records of animals across biological and archaeo...
Relay station in the brain controls an array of movements
May 15, 2019 (UPI)
Physical movements are executed through the coordination of myriad neural signals. Like a relay center, sending and receiving information, the brain's substanti...
Tooth fossils fill 6-million-year-old gap in primate evolution
May 15, 2019 (SPX)
UNLV geoscientist Terry Spell and former master's student Dawn Reynoso were part of the international research team that discovered the species that lived 22 mi...
Evidence suggests Stone Age family explored Italian cave on their hands, knees
May 14, 2019 (UPI)
Archaeologists have discovered 14,000-year-old evidence of a crawling expedition through an Italian cave. The evidence suggests the crawlers were members of a l...
Climate change triggered South American population decline 8,000 years ago
May 09, 2019 (UPI)
"Archaeologists working in South America have broadly known that some 8,200 years ago, inhabited sites in various places across the continent were suddenly aban...
Neanderthals preferred bovine bones for leather-making tools
May 08, 2019 (UPI)
Neanderthals used lissoirs, made from animal rib bones, to soften up animal hides and transform them into workable leather. Most lissoirs are so worn smooth tha...
China, India boost global booze binge: study
May 08, 2019 (AFP)
On current trends, global consumption per capita will rise another 17 percent over the next decade, they reported in The Lancet. By 2030 half of all adults worl...
Tibetan plateau first occupied by middle Pleistocene Denisovans
May 08, 2019 (SPX)
A joint research team led by CHEN Fahu from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and ZHANG Dongju from the Lanzhou Unive...
Prehistoric craftsmen sought freshwater mussels for their ornamental shell
May 07, 2019 (UPI)
When researchers analyzed ornamental shells from across prehistoric Europe, they found the artifacts were all composed of mother-of-pearl from freshwater mussel...
Stanford researchers' artificial synapse is fast, efficient and durable
May 06, 2019 (SPX)
In a paper published online by the journal Science on April 25, the team reports that a prototype array of nine of these devices performed even better than expe...
The building blocks for astronomically literate citizens
May 05, 2019 (SPX)
Throughout history, Astronomy has revolutionised the way humankind sees its place in the Universe, from knowing only a handful of planets in the Solar System, t...
Human ancestors were 'grounded,' new analysis shows
May 01, 2019 (SPX)
"Our unique form of human locomotion evolved from an ancestor that moved in similar ways to the living African apes - chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas," expla...
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