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Brazil's indigenous leader Raoni: youths losing their culture
May 02, 2017 (AFP)
"I am very worried by the new generation," said the chieftain, Raoni Metuktire, internationally recognizable through his traditional lip plate and feather headd...
Tibetan people have multiple adaptations for life at high altitudes
May 01, 2017 (SPX)
The people of Tibet have survived on an extremely high and arid plateau for thousands of years, due to their amazing natural ability to withstand low levels of ...
Bonobos may be better representation of last common ancestor with humans
May 01, 2017 (SPX)
"Bonobo muscles have changed least, which means they are the closest we can get to having a 'living' ancestor," said Bernard Wood, professor of human origins at...
New technique makes it possible to extract the DNA from hominids preserved in sediments
May 01, 2017 (SPX)
The method is based on the analysis of fragments of mitochondrial DNA, which are most abundant in the majority of eukaryotic cells. In this study, the researche...
Prehistoric human DNA is found in caves without bones
Apr 28, 2017 (AFP)
The study published in the journal Science is based on 85 samples from sediments dating to the Pleistocene, a period that extended from 550,000 years ago until ...
TNT Researchers Set Out to Advance Pace and Effectiveness of Cognitive Skills Training
Apr 27, 2017 (SPX)
The crux of the wide-ranging program is to identify optimal and safe neurostimulation methods for activating "synaptic plasticity"-a natural process in the brai...
New paper claims humans were in California 130,000 years ago
Apr 27, 2017 (UPI)
The alleged archaeological site is more than 100,000 years older than what most scientists believed to be the earliest signs of human presence in the Americas. ...
Indonesian hobbit evolved from African ancestor
Apr 21, 2017 (UPI)
Homo erectus is the only other hominid species found on the islands of Indonesia, but the latest research suggests H. floresiensis and H. erectus belong to sepa...
Neuroscientists measure 'higher' state of consciousness
Apr 19, 2017 (UPI)
Neuroscientists at the University of Sussex recorded an increase in neural signal diversity in the brains of people using psychedelic drugs. Previous studies ha...
Study reveals 10,000 years of genetic continuity in northwest North America
Apr 10, 2017 (SPX)
A study of the DNA in ancient skeletal remains adds to the evidence that indigenous groups living today in southern Alaska and the western coast of British Colu...
Putting social science modeling through its paces
Apr 10, 2017 (SPX)
The social sciences can play important roles in assisting military planners and decision-makers who are trying to understand complex human social behaviors and ...
Science says: Let a stranger pick your profile picture
Apr 10, 2017 (UPI)
When scientists in Australia studied the profile picture selection process, they found many make poor decisions. When strangers were allowed to choose a person'...
Married couples with shared ancestry tend to have similar genes
Apr 06, 2017 (UPI)
Married couples tend to look alike for several reasons. One of them, new research shows, is the simple fact that married couples with common ancestry tend to sh...
Great apes know when people are wrong: study
Apr 05, 2017 (AFP)
Orangutans, chimpanzees and bonobos are the nearest relatives of humans in the primate world, and like us, they can tell when a person is wrong in their beliefs...
Researchers uncover prehistoric art and ornaments from Indonesian 'Ice Age'
Apr 04, 2017 (SPX)
The Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution (ARCHE) team, based in Griffith's Environmental Futures Research Institute, together with Indonesian colleagu...
Parallel computation provides deeper insight into brain function
Apr 02, 2017 (SPX)
Unlike experimental neuroscientists who deal with real-life neurons, computational neuroscientists use model simulations to investigate how the brain functions....
Scientists predict children's reading abilities using DNA variants
Mar 28, 2017 (UPI)
DNA can predict a person's reading ability. Scientists at King's College London found DNA variants account for 5 percent of reading ability disparities among ch...
Bigger brains help primates cope with conflict
Mar 27, 2017 (UPI)
New research suggests bigger brains help primates in larger social groups manage their aggression and cope with conflict. Scientists have previously pointed to ...
Human skull evolved along with two-legged walking, study confirms
Mar 21, 2017 (SPX)
The evolution of bipedalism in fossil humans can be detected using a key feature of the skull - a claim that was previously contested but now has been further v...
Indonesian tribes gather amid push to protect homelands
Mar 17, 2017 (AFP)
Thousands of Indonesian tribesmen gathered on jungle-clad Sumatra island Friday, as indigenous people push the government to move faster to protect their ancest...
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