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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...
Ancient human relative explains mountain gene mutation
May 01, 2019 (AFP)
A jawbone dating from at least 160,000 years ago of a Denisovan -- a now-extinct branch of humanity -- is the first of its kind discovered outside of southern S...
Isolation helps Brazil indigenous group defend way of life
Apr 25, 2019 (AFP)
The teens are members of the Arara indigenous group -- and they had to travel eight hours round-trip by boat to the nearest city, Altamira, to download those vi...
Early hunter-gatherer ate entire venomous snake, possibly for religious reasons
Apr 25, 2019 (UPI)
The complete undigested remains of the snake -- minus one fang -- were found inside a coprolite, or fossilized feces, deposited by a hunter-gatherer in a cave i...
Need for social skills helped shape modern human face
Apr 16, 2019 (SPX)
As large-brained, short-faced hominins, our faces are different from other, now extinct hominins (such as the Neanderthals) and our closest living relatives (bo...
Heads in the cloud: Scientists predict internet of thoughts 'within decades'
Apr 15, 2019 (SPX)
Writing in Frontiers in Neuroscience, an international collaboration led by researchers at UC Berkeley and the US Institute for Molecular Manufacturing predicts...
New species of early human found in the Philippines
Apr 15, 2019 (SPX)
Co-author and a lead member of the team, Professor Philip Piper from The Australian National University (ANU) says the findings represent a major breakthrough i...
Multiple Denisovan-related ancestries in Papuans
Apr 13, 2019 (SPX)
Taken together with previous work - which has pointed to a third Denisovan lineage in the genomes of modern Siberians, Native Americans, and East Asians - the e...
New microscopy method promises better picture of deep brain activity
Apr 12, 2019 (UPI)
Imaging the brain is hard. Not only is it composed of millions of neurons and host to fast-moving signals, but also much of the activity is buried deep within t...
New branches of the Denisovan family tree discovered in Indonesia
Apr 11, 2019 (UPI)
"We compared the genomes of modern -- living -- people in Indonesia and New Guinea and found pieces that match the Denisovan genome," Murray Cox, professor of c...
Indigenous groups warn of 'apocalypse' with Brazil's Bolsonaro
Apr 10, 2019 (AFP)
In a piece published in French daily Le Monde, thirteen signatories said that since Bolsonaro's election "we are experiencing the first stages of an apocalypse,...
New species of early human found in cave in the Philippines
Apr 10, 2019 (UPI)
The remains of the new human species, found in a cave in the Philippines, was first described in 2010, but paleontologists estimated that the fossil represented...
Can technology improve even though people don't understand what they are doing?
Apr 03, 2019 (SPX)
New experimental work by an ASU research team published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour this week suggests that cultural evolution can generate new adapti...
Is Earth Quarantined? Researchers Meet to Try Shed Light on Alien Riddle
Mar 28, 2019 (Sputnik)
Members of METI (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence), a San Francisco-based research organisation, met in Paris last week to discuss not just aliens, but t...
Researchers get humans to think like computers
Mar 27, 2019 (SPX)
The findings suggest modern computers may not be as different from humans as we think, and demonstrate how advances in artificial intelligence continue to narro...
Attractive businesswomen considered less trustworthy, surveys suggest
Mar 25, 2019 (UPI)
According to a new study, attractive businesswomen face extra challenges. Previous research efforts have suggested attractive women are perceived as too feminin...
Humans can be tricked just like computers
Mar 22, 2019 (UPI)
"Most of the time, research in our field is about getting computers to think like people," Chaz Firestone, an assistant professor of psychological and brain sci...
From stone chips to microchips: How tiny tools may have made us human
Mar 13, 2019 (SPX)
Just as tiny transistors transformed telecommunications a few decades ago, and scientists are now challenged to make them even smaller, our Stone Age ancestors ...
Fossil teeth in Kenya help fill monkey evolution record gap
Mar 12, 2019 (UPI)
The 22-million-year-old teeth belonged to a newly named monkey species, Alophia metios. The discovery bridged the gap between a 19-million-year-old fossil tooth...
Chimps' cultural diversity threatened by humans, study says
Mar 07, 2019 (AFP)
The striking results, published in the American journal "Science," show that the behavioral diversity of chimpanzees was reduced by an average 88 percent in are...
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