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New findings shed light on origin of upright walking in human ancestors
Mar 04, 2019 (SPX)
Scott W. Simpson, PhD, led an analysis of a 4.5 million-year-old fragmentary female skeleton of the human ancestor Ardipithecus ramidus that was discovered in t...
S.Leone chooses endangered chimpanzee as national icon
Mar 01, 2019 (AFP)
The Western chimpanzee is now the "national animal of Sierra Leone", Agriculture Minister Joseph Ndanema announced at a ceremony honouring renowned British prim...
The Ancestral Puebloans were getting tattoos at least 2,000 years ago
Feb 28, 2019 (UPI)
The ancient artifact, which had been sitting in storage for 40 years, was found by Andrew Gillreath-Brown, a doctoral candidate in anthropology at Washington St...
New chimpanzee culture discovered
Feb 27, 2019 (SPX)
Previously, several large-scale behavioral patterns in chimpanzees have been documented, including the use of clubs to pound open beehives in Central Africa and...
South Korea's fertility rate drops below one for first time
Feb 27, 2019 (AFP)
The country's fertility rate -- the number of children a woman is expected to have in her lifetime -- fell to 0.98 in 2018, far short of the 2.1 needed to maint...
Raging bull: smashing away anger at Indonesia's 'Temper Clinic'
Feb 22, 2019 (AFP)
"I feel relieved. It's like something I have been holding inside is finally released when I smashed those bottles," Genta Kalbu Tanjung, a 20-year-old universit...
US firm to stop selling China equipment for minority DNA database
Feb 22, 2019 (AFP)
Since 2016, there have been regular reports of Chinese authorities taking blood samples in the Xinjiang region. Xinjiang is home to most of China's Uighur ethni...
Quarrying of Stonehenge 'bluestones' dated to 3000 BC
Feb 20, 2019 (SPX)
Geologists have long known that 42 of Stonehenge's smaller stones, known as 'bluestones', came from the Preseli hills in Pembrokeshire, west Wales. Now a new st...
Neandertals' main food source was definitely meat
Feb 20, 2019 (SPX)
Neandertals are apparently occupying a high position in terrestrial food chains, exhibiting slightly higher ratios than carnivores (like hyenas, wolves or foxes...
Orangutans make complex economic decisions
Feb 14, 2019 (UPI)
Biologists have long considered tool usage a sign of advanced cognition, but increasingly, scientists are realizing tools can be used in primitive, less-sophist...
Uncovering the evolution of the brain
Feb 13, 2019 (SPX)
"This study provides insights into the developmental organization of the brain and lays the groundwork for further comparative analyses between humans and nonhu...
Sequencing of human gut genome reveals nearly 2,000 unknown bacteria species
Feb 12, 2019 (UPI)
Researchers with the lab's European Bioinformatics Institute collected gut cultures from study participants around the world. The microbiologists used a variety...
Chimpanzees become expert nut-crackers faster than humans
Feb 07, 2019 (SPX)
Such comparisons disadvantage the animals and are prone to underestimating the technological skills demonstrated by wild populations. In a first comparison betw...
Western lowland gorillas enjoy peaceful, dynamic familial relations
Feb 07, 2019 (UPI)
For five years, biologists from the University of Barcelona monitored three families of the western lowland gorilla, Gorilla gorilla gorilla, in the dense rainf...
A taste for fat may have made us human
Feb 06, 2019 (SPX)
The paper argues that our early ancestors acquired a taste for fat by eating marrow scavenged from the skeletal remains of large animals that had been killed an...
The Caucasus: Complex interplay of genes and cultures
Feb 05, 2019 (SPX)
The study, published in Nature Communications, is based on analyses of genome-wide data from 45 individuals in the steppe and mountainous areas of the North Cau...
European colonisation of the Americas killed 10 percent of world population and caused global cooling
Feb 01, 2019 (SPX)
The number of people living in North, Central and South America when Columbus arrived is a question that researchers have been trying to answer for decades. Unl...
Ancient skull provides earliest evidence of modern humans in Mongolia
Jan 30, 2019 (UPI)
Using radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis, paleontologists determined the skull belonged to Homo sapiens. The discovery is described in a new paper published We...
Humans colonized diverse environments in Southeast Asia and Oceania during the Pleistocene
Jan 29, 2019 (SPX)
A new study, published in Archaeological Research in Asia, reviews the palaeoecological information associated with hominin dispersals into Southeast Asia and O...
A surprisingly early replacement of Neanderthals by modern humans in southern Spain
Jan 23, 2019 (SPX)
The research, to be published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, shows that the replacement of Neanderthals by modern humans in southern Iberia began early, rathe...
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