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NTU team uncover one of mankind's most ancient lineages
Dec 09, 2014 (SPX)
Scientists at Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) and Penn State University in the United States have successfully discovered one of modern human's...
Localized climate change contributed to ancient southwest depopulation
Dec 05, 2014 (SPX)
Washington State University researchers have detailed the role of localized climate change in one of the great mysteries of North American archaeology: the depo...
Computer equal to or better than humans at cataloging science
Dec 03, 2014 (SPX)
In 1997, IBM's Deep Blue computer beat chess wizard Garry Kasparov. This year, a computer system developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison equaled or bes...
Archaeologists say ancient shell engraving is oldest human art
Dec 03, 2014 (UPI)
Researchers say a sharp zigzag, engraved into the underside of a shell, is the oldest example of human art. Previously, the earliest examples of geometric art w...
Primates have been drinking alcohol for 10 million years, according to a new study
Dec 01, 2014 (UPI)
According to a new study, primates have been consuming some form of alcohol since 10 million years ago. The scientists looked at almost 70 million years worth o...
Prehistoric conflict hastened human brain's capacity for collaboration
Nov 28, 2014 (SPX)
Warfare not only hastened human technological progress and vast social and political changes, but may have greatly contributed to the evolutionary emergence of ...
Swiss to vote on immigration cut 'to save environment'
Nov 26, 2014 (AFP)
The Swiss will once again head to the polls this weekend to decide whether to dramatically slash immigration numbers, this time in the name of saving the enviro...
Brain's reaction to virtual reality should prompt further study
Nov 25, 2014 (SPX)
UCLA neurophysicists have found that space-mapping neurons in the brain react differently to virtual reality than they do to real-world environments. Their find...
Dizzying heights: Prehistoric farming on the 'roof of the world'
Nov 25, 2014 (SPX)
Animal teeth, bones and plant remains have helped researchers from Cambridge, China and America to pinpoint a date for what could be the earliest sustained huma...
Scientists rediscover long-lost region of the brain
Nov 20, 2014 (UPI)
A region of the brain known as the vertical occipital fasciculus, or VOF, was first identified in the latter half of the 19th century, but not long after its di...
Were Neanderthals a sub-species of modern humans?
Nov 19, 2014 (SPX)
In an extensive, multi-institution study led by SUNY Downstate Medical Center, researchers have identified new evidence supporting the growing belief that Neand...
Lost languages leave a mark on the brain
Nov 17, 2014 (AFP)
Babies adopted across international borders may not remember the language they heard in their first days, but the words leave a lasting mark on their minds, sci...
Did men evolve navigation skills to find mates?
Nov 14, 2014 (SPX)
A University of Utah study of two African tribes found evidence that men evolved better navigation ability than women because men with better spatial skills - t...
Researchers explain high school cliques, how to prevent them
Nov 11, 2014 (UPI)
Anyone who has watched Mean Girls or Clueless knows, high school social structures are rigid and hierarchical -- sometimes cruelly so. And while those movies ar...
Sustainability and astrobiology combine to illuminate future Earth
Nov 11, 2014 (SPX)
Human-caused climate change, ocean acidification and species extinctions may eventually threaten the collapse of civilization, according to some scientists, whi...
Ancient genomes show the European meta-population
Nov 07, 2014 (SPX)
DNA recovered from a 36,000 year old fossil skeleton found in Russia shows early divergence of Eurasians once they had left Africa, and the deep shared ancestry...
UW study shows direct brain interface between humans
Nov 06, 2014 (SPX)
Sometimes, words just complicate things. What if our brains could communicate directly with each other, bypassing the need for language? University of Washingto...
Brazil Indians in race to save ancestral lands
Nov 06, 2014 (AFP)
Government foot-dragging has spurred a race by Brazil's Munduruku Indians to mark off their ancestral lands in the Amazon before they are wiped out by a planned...
Tell-tales of war: Traditional stories highlight how ancient women survived
Nov 06, 2014 (SPX)
Through the ages, women have suffered greatly because of wars. Consequently, to protect themselves and their offspring, our female ancestors may have evolved su...
Population boom, droughts contributed to collapse of ancient Assyrian Empire
Nov 06, 2014 (SPX)
There's more to the decline of the once mighty ancient Assyrian Empire than just civil wars and political unrest. Archaeological, historical, and paleoclimatic ...
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