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Ancient grains offer insights into the birth and growth of the world's oldest cities
Jun 06, 2017 (UPI)
Using stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis to survey ancient, charred grains, archaeologists from the University of Oxford were able to reconstruct the g...
Tourists risk getting bit when they mistake monkey aggression for affection
Jun 01, 2017 (UPI)
In many places around the world, monkey-human interactions are unavoidable. Many tourists visit places for the express purpose of interacting with monkeys. But ...
Springs were critical water sources for early humans in East Africa, Rutgers study finds
May 31, 2017 (SPX)
The international team showed that climate may not play such a primary role in human evolution as is commonly asserted. "This has very important implications fo...
Fossil skeleton confirms earliest primates were tree dwellers
May 31, 2017 (SPX)
The skeleton was discovered in the San Juan Basin by Thomas Williamson, curator of paleontology at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, and his...
Researchers Identify Conductor of Brain's Neural Orchestra and Begin to Decode the Score
May 26, 2017 (SPX)
The findings of the Stanford team, made in collaboration with researchers at the California Institute of Technology and detailed this week in the journal Neuron...
New hypothesis about the origin of humankind suggests oldest hominin lived in Europe
May 26, 2017 (SPX)
Present-day chimpanzees are humans' nearest living relatives. Where the last chimp-human common ancestor lived is a central and highly debated issue in palaeoan...
Portions of human skeletal structure were established millions of years earlier than previously thought,
May 24, 2017 (SPX)
The findings, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, indicate that Selam possesses the most complete spinal column of any ea...
'Moral enhancement' technologies are neither feasible nor wise
May 22, 2017 (SPX)
The idea behind moral enhancement technologies is to use biomedical techniques to make people more moral. For example, using drugs or surgical techniques to tre...
Study reveals architecture of the 'second brain,' the enteric nervous system
May 19, 2017 (UPI)
The survey of body's "second brain" offered scientists a better understanding of the system's complex architecture, the arrangement of more than half a billion ...
Grassy beginning for earliest Homo
May 18, 2017 (SPX)
But how do you re-create specific environments from millions of years ago to understand where our ancient ancestors lived? Paleoanthropologists use animal fossi...
Study shows southern Mediterranean shares genetic heritage
May 17, 2017 (UPI)
While tracing the genetic ancestry of modern populations in Sicily and Southern Italy, researchers from the University of Bologna discovered high-density genomi...
Adolescent orangoutan breastfeed for eight years
May 17, 2017 (UPI)
Scientists previously estimated orangutans breastfeed for seven years, but tracking nursing behavior in the wild is difficult. Biologists arrived at the new est...
Research suggests the ideal leader resembles his or her subordinates
May 16, 2017 (UPI)
When researchers at the University of Exeter Business School and the Bradford University School of Management asked study participants to select photographs of ...
Changes in Early Stone Age tool production have 'musical' ties
May 15, 2017 (SPX)
Around 1.75 million years ago there was a revolutionary innovation in stone tool technology, when early humans moved from making simple Oldowan flake and pebble...
South African cave yields yet more fossils of a newfound relative
May 15, 2017 (SPX)
The discovery, announced May 9, 2017 with the publication of a series of papers in the journal eLife, helps round out the picture of a creature that scientists ...
Homo naledi's surprisingly young age opens up more questions on where we come from
May 11, 2017 (SPX)
The age of the original Homo naledi remains from the Dinaledi Chamber has been revealed to be startlingly young in age. Homo naledi, which was first announced i...
Modern DNA reveals ancient origins of Indian population
May 08, 2017 (UPI)
The origins of the peoples of the Indian Subcontinent remains a much debated topic among scientists. But new research has offered some clarity on the matter. Th...
Population growth, spread responsible for human advancement
May 03, 2017 (UPI)
Previous theories regarding why there was a significant increase in the use of new tools, art and other cultural artifacts from the Middle to the Upper Paleolit...
What comes next - how the brain predicts speech
May 03, 2017 (SPX)
Their research reveals how individual neurons coordinate with neural populations to anticipate events, a process that is impaired in many neurological and psych...
Early evidence of Middle Stone Age projectiles found in South Africa's Sibudu Cave
May 03, 2017 (SPX)
The South African Middle Stone Age (MSA) is considered a period of major technological advancement, with hunter-gatherers introducing new manipulative technique...
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