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Ancient Brazilians occupied the same houses for centuries
Jul 06, 2016 (UPI)
New research suggests the pit house dwellers of Brazil's southern highlands occupied the same houses for centuries, maintaining their in habitability though reg...
New study highlights neuronal dynamism in adult brain
Jul 01, 2016 (UPI)
For the first time, researchers have observed the formation and evolution of new adult-born neurons. Until 15 years ago, scientists thought adult brains ceased ...
Ancient 'Deep Skull' from Borneo full of surprises
Jun 30, 2016 (SPX)
A new study of the 37,000-year old remains of the "Deep Skull" - the oldest modern human discovered in island South-East Asia - has revealed this ancient person...
Monkeys get more selective as they get older
Jun 23, 2016 (UPI)
For young people, friends are often determined by proximity. Whoever is around is your friend. Whereever you are, that's the playground. As humans get older, th...
To retain newly learned info, exercise four hours later
Jun 16, 2016 (UPI)
A little afternoon recess could help schoolchildren remember what they learned during their morning lessons. New research suggests exercise fours after the acqu...
Student research settles 'superpower showdown'
Jun 14, 2016 (SPX)
Students at the University of Leicester have been using simple calculations to explain the feasibility of the powers behind of some of the most prominent comic ...
The primate brain is 'pre-adapted' to face potentially any situation
Jun 13, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists have shown how the brain anticipates all of the new situations that it may encounter in a lifetime by creating a special kind of neural network that ...
New fossils shed light on the origin of 'hobbits'
Jun 10, 2016 (SPX)
Griffith University researchers are part of an international team of scientists that has announced the discovery of ancestors of Homo floresiensis - the enigmat...
Study: Grasslands served as setting for early human evolution
Jun 09, 2016 (UPI)
New geologic evidence supports the theory that the transition from forest to grassland encouraged key adaptations during early human evolution. Genetic analysis...
Scientists find 5,000-year-old livestock pens in Spain
Jun 09, 2016 (UPI)
The excavation of an ancient rock shelter in northern Spain has yielded evidence of 5,000-year-old livestock pens. The ancient structures offer some of the earl...
Yale researchers map 6,000 years of urban settlements
Jun 08, 2016 (SPX)
As the growth of cities worldwide transforms humans into an "urban species," many scholars question the sustainability of modern urbanization. But in reality th...
Lucy had neighbors: A review of African fossils
Jun 07, 2016 (SPX)
If "Lucy" wasn't alone, who else was in her neighborhood? Key fossil discoveries over the last few decades in Africa indicate that multiple early human ancestor...
Pristine landscapes haven't existed for thousands of years due to humans
Jun 07, 2016 (SPX)
'Pristine' landscapes simply do not exist anywhere in the world today and, in most cases, have not existed for at least several thousand years, says a new study...
New support for human evolution in grasslands
Jun 07, 2016 (SPX)
Buried deep in seabed sediments off east Africa, scientists have uncovered a 24-million-year record of vegetation trends in the region where humans evolved. The...
US obesity epidemic grows in all ages
Jun 07, 2016 (AFP)
The US obesity epidemic has worsened across the board to include 40 percent of women, 35 percent of men and 17 percent of children and teens, studies released T...
Inbred Neanderthals left humans a genetic burden
Jun 07, 2016 (SPX)
The Neanderthal genome included harmful mutations that made the hominids around 40% less reproductively fit than modern humans, according to estimates published...
Research proves Aboriginal Australians were first inhabitants
Jun 07, 2016 (SPX)
Griffith University researchers have found evidence that demonstrates Aboriginal people were the first to inhabit Australia, as reported in the prestigious Proc...
Early farmers from across Europe were direct descendants of Aegeans
Jun 07, 2016 (SPX)
For most of the last 45,000 years Europe was inhabited solely by hunter-gatherers. About 8,500 years ago a new form of subsistence - farming - started to spread...
Dogs were domesticated not once, but twice
Jun 03, 2016 (SPX)
The question, 'Where do domestic dogs come from?', has vexed scholars for a very long time. Some argue that humans first domesticated wolves in Europe, while ot...
Space-age exploration for pre-historic bones
Jun 01, 2016 (SPX)
The extremely difficult conditions in which University of the Witwatersrand's (Wits) Professor Lee Berger's Rising Star team was forced to work, gave rise to th...
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