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Lasers reveal ancient Mayan civilization hiding beneath Guatemalan canopy
Feb 02, 2018 (UPI)
The hundreds of houses, palaces and roads identified by the surveys have offered new insights into the sophisticated organization of the Mayan civilization at t...
Study details Peking Man's teeth
Feb 01, 2018 (UPI)
In a paper, newly published in the journal Scientific Reports, scientists with the National Research Center on Human Evolution in Spain detailed six fossilized ...
Truck damages Peru's ancient Nazca lines
Jan 30, 2018 (AFP)
The lines, considered a UNESCO World Heritage site, are enormous drawings of animals and plants etched in the ground some 2,000 years ago by a pre-Inca civiliza...
Evolving sets of gene regulators explain some of our differences from other primates
Jan 30, 2018 (SPX)
The researchers focused on regulatory DNA elements are called gene enhancers and promoters. Promoters sit immediately "upstream" of genes and must be activated ...
Modern human brain organization emerged only recently
Jan 29, 2018 (SPX)
The evolutionary history of our own species can be traced back to fossils from Jebel Irhoud (Morocco) dated to about 300,000 years ago. Last year's analysis of ...
Fossil found in Israel suggests Homo sapiens left Africa 180,000 years ago
Jan 25, 2018 (UPI)
Last year, scientists found a 300,000-year-old Homo sapien fossil in Morocco. Previously, scientists thought Homo sapiens first emerged 200,000 years ago in Eas...
First came Homo sapiens, then came the modern brain
Jan 25, 2018 (UPI)
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, first analyzed the skull shapes of the earliest Homo sapien specimens ...
Study: When the going gets tough, women are more resilient than men
Jan 09, 2018 (UPI)
Analysis of three centuries of historical data showed women are more likely than men to survive famines and epidemics. Their advantage is earned early. Female n...
Unlike people, bonobos don't 'look for the helpers'
Jan 09, 2018 (SPX)
The findings suggest that humans' preference for helpers evolved only after our species diverged from other apes. This preference may have provided the foundati...
Bonobos prefer jerks
Jan 09, 2018 (SPX)
But while humans generally prefer individuals who are nice to others, a Duke University study finds bonobos are more attracted to jerks. The researchers were su...
Cultural evolution has not freed hunter-gatherers from environmental forcing
Jan 09, 2018 (SPX)
"These results demonstrate that cultural evolution has not freed human hunter-gatherers from strong environmental forcings", says Dr Miikka Tallavaara. Interest...
DNA offers evidence of new population of native Alaskans
Jan 04, 2018 (UPI)
"We didn't know this population existed," Ben Potter, a professor of anthropology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, said in a news release. "These data als...
Study redefines understanding of old age throughout human history
Jan 04, 2018 (UPI)
The method was developed by Christine Cave, a postdoctoral researcher at the Australian National University. Cave showed the lifespan of skeletal remains can be...
Bonobos show a preference for jerks
Jan 04, 2018 (UPI)
Given a choice between two people, one mean and one nice, humans tend to prefer the nice one. Studies have shown infants as young as three months prefer a perso...
Primordial mutation helps explain origin of some organs in vertebrates
Dec 18, 2017 (SPX)
Specifically, this mutation, which likely occurred very early in evolution after the separation of our group from that of sea anemones, affected a gene of the F...
Scientists show how Himalayan rivers influenced ancient Indus civilization settlements
Dec 12, 2017 (SPX)
It has generally been thought that this was a major Himalayan river that dried up either due to climatic or tectonic changes. However, until now, scientists had...
Archaeologists revise chronology of the last hunter-gatherers in the Near East
Dec 11, 2017 (SPX)
The hunter-gatherers of the Natufian Culture, which existed in modern-day Israel, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria between c. 14,500 - 11,500 years ago, were some of t...
Scientists revamp 'Out of Africa' model of early human migration
Dec 08, 2017 (UPI)
In the new survey, published this week in the journal Science, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Germany and the Unive...
Research suggests gorillas can develop food cleaning behavior spontaneously
Dec 07, 2017 (SPX)
Though the authors acknowledge that general purpose social learning between individuals can help to increase the behaviour in frequency, their study of captive ...
Paleontologists reveal Little Foot, the most complete remains of an early human relative
Dec 06, 2017 (UPI)
The Little Foot fossil is 3.67 million years old, making it South Africa's oldest virtually complete fossil of a human ancestor. It's also one of the oldest hom...
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