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Chimpanzee calls differ according to context
May 25, 2018 (SPX)
"To address this, we examine a quiet contact vocalisation of chimpanzees, the 'hoo'", says Catherine Crockford of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anth...
Prehistoric people also likely disrupted by environmental change
May 25, 2018 (SPX)
The study, published online May 18 in the peer-reviewed Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, used archaeological excavations, geologic mapping and coring,...
'Uniquely human' muscles have been discovered in apes
May 24, 2018 (SPX)
"This study contradicts key dogmas about human evolution and our distinct place on the 'ladder of nature,'" says Rui Diogo, an Associate Professor in the Depart...
What we inherited from our bug-eating ancestors
May 17, 2018 (SPX)
Based on an analysis of the genomes of 107 different species of mammals, University of California, Berkeley, scientists conclude that our distant ancestors - th...
UN: 68 percent of world population will live in urban areas by 2050
May 16, 2018 (AFP)
The UN report predicted an extra 2.5 billion people living in ever-expanding cities in the next 30 years, with as much as 90 percent of the urban growth centere...
Key part of human gene activation revealed by new study
May 15, 2018 (UPI)
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, however, have pinpointed a key factor responsible for unraveling nucleosome structures and allowing gene...
Where hominid brains are concerned, size doesn't matter
May 15, 2018 (SPX)
The research highlights the humanlike shape of naledi's tiny brain, surprising scientists who studied the fossils. These findings draw further into question the...
Trait tied to autism may explain emergence of realistic art
May 14, 2018 (UPI)
Seemingly all at once, detailed depictions of bears, bison, horses and lions began to appear in significant numbers in Ice Age caves. Scientists have struggled ...
Can chimpanzee vocalizations reveal the origins of human language?
May 10, 2018 (SPX)
But chimpanzees - one of our closest living relatives - provide important points of comparison for inferring the sorts of sounds our early ancestors may have ma...
East African cave yields evidence of innovations beginning 67,000 years ago
May 10, 2018 (UPI)
Until now, little was known about human history in East Africa over the last 78,000 years, with most archaeological research focused on the Rift Valley and in S...
What gorilla poop tells us about evolution and human health
May 04, 2018 (SPX)
The researchers used genetic sequencing to analyze fecal samples collected by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) from wild African great apes living the Sa...
Study considers how humans first depicted animals in cave paintings
May 04, 2018 (UPI)
In a new study, researchers from the University of York and Durham University present a new framework with which to analyze Palaeolithic art. The new approach c...
Revealing the remarkable nanostructure of human bone
May 04, 2018 (SPX)
Bone performs equally well whether in an accelerating cheetah or in a heavy elephant, thanks to its toughness and strength. The properties of bone can be attrib...
Engraved Crimean stone artifact may demonstrate Neanderthal symbolism
May 03, 2018 (SPX)
Engraved stone artifacts are important clues to the history of human culture and cognition. Incisions on the cortex (soft outer layer) of flint or chert flakes ...
Early humans in the Philippines 700,000 years ago: study
May 02, 2018 (AFP)
This and other questions arise from the discovery in the Philippines of a butchered rhinoceros skeleton and the stone tools probably used to carve away its meat...
Hominins were walking like Homo sapiens earlier than scientists thought
Apr 23, 2018 (UPI)
After analyzing a series of 3.6-million-year-old hominin footprints, researchers determined human-like bipedalism evolved much earlier than previously thought. ...
Genetic adaptations to diving discovered in humans for the first time
Apr 20, 2018 (SPX)
It has previously been hypothesised that the spleen plays an important role in enabling humans to free dive for prolonged periods but the relationship between s...
Unprecedented wave of large-mammal extinctions linked to ancient humans
Apr 20, 2018 (SPX)
Elephant-dwarfing wooly mammoths, elephant-sized ground sloths and various saber-toothed cats highlighted the array of massive mammals roaming Earth between 2.6...
Anatomy expertise key to solving ancient mystery of humans
Apr 19, 2018 (SPX)
Recognized as the original "cavemen," Neanderthals, who lived 60,000 years ago, were the first fossil humans ever discovered when remains were uncovered in the ...
Mutant ferrets offer clues to human brain size
Apr 16, 2018 (SPX)
By inactivating a gene linked to abnormally small brain size in humans, researchers have created the first ferret with a neurological mutation. Although the ori...
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