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Chimpanzees can learn how to use tools without observing others

Oct 02, 2017 (SPX)

Researchers from the University of Birmingham, UK, and University of Tubingen, Germany, looked for the spontaneous re-occurrence of a tool-use behaviour practic...

Sleep helps the brain reorganize, new study shows

Oct 01, 2017 (UPI)

The study, published this week in the journal Nature Communications, was made possible by new methods for recording brain activity during sleep. Scientists used...

Ancient human DNA in sub-Saharan Africa lifts veil on prehistory

Sep 25, 2017 (SPX)

The findings, published Sept. 21 in Cell by an international research team led by Harvard Medical School, answer several longstanding mysteries and uncover surp...

Helping Ponso, sole survivor of 'Chimpanzee Island' in I. Coast

Sep 24, 2017 (AFP)

An effort is under way to keep Ponso alive and well in a west African country where the ape population has plummeted by 90 percent in just two decades. Chimpanz...

Cell phone data coupled with sewage testing show drug use patterns

Sep 21, 2017 (SPX)

But this approach hasn't taken into account the variation in number of people who add to wastewater in a given area at a given time. Now one team reports in ACS...

Trudeau tells UN Canada has failed its indigenous people

Sep 21, 2017 (AFP)

Trudeau told the UN General Assembly that Canada's 1.2 million indigenous people had mostly known "humiliation, neglect and abuse" in a country often held up as...

How Teotihuacan's urban design was lost and found

Sep 21, 2017 (SPX)

Smith, using a map produced by the Teotihuacan mapping project, conducted a comparative analysis of the city with earlier and later Mesoamerican urban centers a...

Huge genetic diversity among Papuan New Guinean peoples revealed

Sep 19, 2017 (SPX)

Reported in Science, the study also gives insights into how the development of agriculture and cultural events such as the Bronze or Iron Age could affect the g...

Royal tomb of ancient Mayan ruler found in Guatemala

Sep 15, 2017 (UPI)

The tomb belonged to an ancient Mayan ruler of Waka', or El Perú, the capital city of a Classic Maya city state located in what is now the Petén region in nor...

Large-scale study of genetic data shows humans still evolving

Sep 07, 2017 (SPX)

Researchers further find that sets of genetic mutations that predispose people to heart disease, high cholesterol, obesity, and asthma, also appear less often i...

Groups are more likely to lie than individuals, new study shows

Sep 06, 2017 (UPI)

During the study, scientists at the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich recruited paid participants to watch videos of dice rolls and record the number on th...

Humans are still evolving, study suggests

Sep 05, 2017 (UPI)

But a new study suggests natural selection is still altering the human genome in subtle ways. When researchers surveyed the genomes of 210,000 people from the U...

Grammatical patterns survive extreme social upheaval

Sep 05, 2017 (UPI)

Creole languages are hybridized languages. They're often born of harsh social conditions and upheaval, such as colonial slaveries, when disparate groups of peop...

Fossil footprints challenge established theories of human evolution

Sep 04, 2017 (SPX)

Ever since the discovery of fossils of Australopithecus in South and East Africa during the middle years of the 20th century, the origin of the human lineage ha...

In devastated Houston, 'nobody hates anybody' as people come together

Sep 02, 2017 (AFP)

Many Houstonians are still trying to salvage what they can from their flooded homes. But one word captures the mood in the most racially diverse US city: solida...

Ape intelligence research poisoned by human ego, scientists argue

Aug 31, 2017 (UPI)

According to a team of international scientists, decades of ape research has been poisoned by the base assumption that humans are smarter and more capable than ...

Human settlement in the Americas may have occurred in the late Pleistocene

Aug 31, 2017 (SPX)

Scientists have long debated about when humans first settled in the Americas. While osteological evidence of early settlers is fragmentary, researchers have pre...

Farming, cheese, chewing changed human skull shape

Aug 28, 2017 (SPX)

Humans who live by hunting and foraging wild foods have to put more effort into chewing than people living from farming, who eat a softer diet. Although previou...

Elderly just as streetwise as young adults, research shows

Aug 28, 2017 (UPI)

Many think of street smarts -- the ability to navigate the risks of urban life -- as an attribute that diminishes as people age. But when researchers measured t...

Both chimpanzees and humans spontaneously imitate each other's actions

Aug 22, 2017 (SPX)

Decades of research has shown that apes, in spite of their proverbial aping abilities, are rather poor imitators, especially when compared to human children. Th...