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Miniature human brain implants survive, grow inside mice for months

Apr 16, 2018 (UPI)

Researchers describe the breakthrough in a new paper published Monday in the journal Nature Biotechnology. Scientists grew the pea-sized brains from stem cells ...

Infants recognize links between vocal, facial cues

Apr 12, 2018 (UPI)

Before infants can talk, they use posture, voice and facial expressions to communicate their emotions. New research suggests babies can also interpret emotional...

First human migration out of Africa much more geographically widespread

Apr 10, 2018 (SPX)

Researchers conducting archaeological fieldwork in the Nefud Desert of Saudi Arabia have discovered a fossilized finger bone of an early member of our species, ...

Why expressive brows might have mattered in human evolution

Apr 10, 2018 (SPX)

Like the antlers on a stag, a pronounced brow ridge was a permanent signal of dominance and aggression in our early ancestors, which modern humans traded in for...

Bonobos share and share alike

Apr 09, 2018 (SPX)

This study is the first observation of sharing behaviour across community borders and was led by Barbara Fruth of Liverpool John Moores University in the UK and...

Inner ear provides clues to human dispersal

Apr 06, 2018 (SPX)

Now, an international team of researchers led by paleoanthropologists from the University of Zurich has shown that the morphology of the inner ear is a good ind...

Study explains Neanderthal's uniquely shaped face

Apr 04, 2018 (UPI)

New research -- including the first full reconstructions of Neanderthal skulls using 3D computer modeling -- suggests the Neanderthal's facial structure was des...

Parts of the Amazon thought uninhabited were home to a million people

Mar 30, 2018 (SPX)

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that there were hundreds of villages in the rainforest away from major rivers, and they were home to different communitie...

Progress in quest to develop a human memory prosthesis

Mar 29, 2018 (SPX)

This week, RAM researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and the University of Southern California published in the Journal of Neural Engineering that t...

How infighting turns toxic for chimpanzees

Mar 29, 2018 (SPX)

In the early 1970s, primatologist Jane Goodall and colleagues studying chimpanzees in Gombe National Park, Tanzania, watched as a once-unified chimp community d...

Scientists find 13,000-year-old footprints in Canada

Mar 29, 2018 (UPI)

Scientists from the Hakai Institute and University of Victoria, Canada, believe humans were present on the west coast of British Columbia as it emerged from the...

Being human: Antony Gormley's new bodies

Mar 28, 2018 (AFP)

Antony Gormley's new creations, a series entitled "Rooting the Synapse" unveiled in Hong Kong this week, are as always modelled on his own form -- but this time...

Scientists discover evidence of early human innovation, pushing back evolutionary timeline

Mar 26, 2018 (SPX)

These newly discovered activities approximately date to the oldest known fossil record of Homo sapiens and occur tens of thousands of years earlier than previou...

When the Mediteranean Sea flooded human settlements

Mar 26, 2018 (SPX)

Researchers of the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, the Goethe University in Frankfurt and the University of Toronto have now detected evid...

New insights into the late history of Neandertals

Mar 26, 2018 (SPX)

Due to the limited number of specimens and difficulties in obtaining endogenous DNA from such old material, the number of Neandertals for which nuclear genomes ...

Illusory motion reproduced by deep neural networks trained for prediction

Mar 23, 2018 (SPX)

A research team led by associate professor Eiji Watanabe of the National Institute for Basic Biology successfully reproduced illusory motion by DNNs trained for...

Fish accounted for surprisingly large part of the Stone Age diet

Mar 21, 2018 (SPX)

Osteologists Adam Boethius and Torbjorn Ahlstrom have studied the importance of various protein sources in the human diet across three millennia, from around 10...

Kenyan paleoenvironments opens new window on human evolution in the area

Mar 21, 2018 (SPX)

The sediments of the newly named Oltulelei Formation in the Olorgesailie Basin were deposited after a 180,000 year period of erosion and represent the time inte...

Evidence of early innovation pushes back timeline of human evolution

Mar 15, 2018 (UPI)

For a million years, bulky stone axes, often called Acheulean hand axes, were the tool of choice for primitive hominins in Africa's Rift Valley. Now, researcher...

Archaeologists detail origins of elongated heads among ancient Bavarians

Mar 13, 2018 (UPI)

Bones from six Bavarian cemeteries showcased the cultural dynamism of the Migration Period linking the Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages. The Migration Period m...