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Researchers demonstrate 'mind-reading' brain-decoding tech

Oct 26, 2017 (SPX)

The advance could aid efforts to improve artificial intelligence and lead to new insights into brain function. Critical to the research is a type of algorithm c...

Determining when humans started impacting the planet on a large scale

Oct 26, 2017 (SPX)

The geologic record can sometimes provide clear-cut evidence of epoch changes. For example, when a meteorite collided with Earth 66 million years ago, levels of...

How small-world networks occur within bigger and more complex structures

Oct 26, 2017 (SPX)

Many systems show complex structures, of which a distinctive feature is small-world network organization. They arise in society as well as ecological and protei...

How Neanderthals influenced human genetics at the crossroads of Asia and Europe

Oct 26, 2017 (SPX)

Here, at this important crossroads, it's thought that they encountered and had sexual rendezvous with a different hominid species: the Neanderthals. Genomic evi...

Older Neandertal survived with a little help from his friends

Oct 26, 2017 (SPX)

"More than his loss of a forearm, bad limp and other injuries, his deafness would have made him easy prey for the ubiquitous carnivores in his environment and d...

Tribe sharpens arrows against Amazon invaders

Oct 25, 2017 (AFP)

These are the Waiapi, an ancient tribe living in Brazil's Amazon rainforest but now fearing invasion by international mining companies. Leading AFP reporters to...

Set of 9 million-year-old teeth suggests earliest human relatives could have lived in Europe

Oct 20, 2017 (UPI)

Scientists found the teeth while sifting through sediment in the Rhine river near Eppelsheim, a small city in southwestern Germany. "They are clearly ape-teeth,...

Primate study offers insights into relationship between of jealousy and monogamy

Oct 19, 2017 (UPI)

The latest research suggests the emotion triggers an increase in neural activity among parts of the primate brain associated with social pain. But it also excit...

Duplications of noncoding DNA could help explain human-primate split

Oct 18, 2017 (UPI)

Human-specific duplications are DNA strands of at least 1,000 base pairs that are repeated in humans but not primates or other animals. In order to identify gen...

New study suggests that last common ancestor of humans and apes was smaller than thought

Oct 16, 2017 (SPX)

"Body size directly affects how an animal relates to its environment, and no trait has a wider range of biological implications," said lead author Mark Grabowsk...

Genome of a 40,000-year-old man in China reveals region's complex human history

Oct 16, 2017 (UPI)

Now, yet another complex human history has been revealed by the genetic remains of a 40,000-year-old man from China. The man's DNA -- recovered from remains in ...

World Bank: 1.1 bn people 'invisible', lacking official identity

Oct 13, 2017 (AFP)

More than a third of these "invisible" people are children, the Bank said in a report issued for its annual meeting in Washington this week. That is particularl...

Scientists identify genes critical for hearing

Oct 11, 2017 (UPI)

Scientists tested more than 3,000 "knock-out" mice, mice with one of their genes deactivated, for evidence of hearing loss. Each mouse was tested for its abilit...

DNA proves Newfoundland was populated by distinct groups three different times

Oct 11, 2017 (UPI)

When scientists analyzed the DNA of two known cultural groups, the Maritime Archaic and Beothuk, they found the groups brought unique matrilines to the island. ...

Prehistoric humans are likely to have formed mating networks to avoid inbreeding

Oct 09, 2017 (SPX)

Early humans seem to have recognised the dangers of inbreeding at least 34,000 years ago, and developed surprisingly sophisticated social and mating networks to...

Ancient humans left Africa to escape drying climate

Oct 06, 2017 (SPX)

"There's always been a question about whether climate change had any influence on when our species left Africa," said Jessica Tierney, UA associate professor of...

Isotopic analyses link the lives of Late Neolithic individuals to burial location in Spain

Oct 05, 2017 (SPX)

Previous research on the burial practices of the Western European Neolithic has revealed variation in burial location and treatment, but their significance is d...

Scientists find more modern human traits influenced by Neandertal DNA

Oct 05, 2017 (UPI)

Roughly 2 percent of the modern human genome is inherited from Neandertals. Previous studies have linked Neandertal DNA with a handful of modern diseases and im...

Stone Age child reveals that modern humans emerged more than 300,000 years ago

Oct 03, 2017 (SPX)

Marlize Lombard, Professor of Stone Age archaeology at the University of Johannesburg, initiated collaboration with geneticists from Uppsala University in Swede...

Researchers explore why humans don't purge lethal genetic disorders from the population

Oct 02, 2017 (SPX)

There are many lethal, recessive diseases that plague the human population, where inheriting a single copy of the defective gene has no effect, but inheriting a...