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Researchers say human foot not unique, more like those of great apes
Aug 21, 2013 (UPI)
The human foot is not as different as formerly thought from the flexible feet of great apes, British researchers say. Despite humans having abandoned life in th...
Archaeologists find evidence of separate Neanderthal cultures in Europe
Aug 19, 2013 (UPI)
A study of prehistoric hand axes created by Neanderthals shows two distinct cultural traditions in populations in different regions of Europe, researchers say. ...
Research effort dates oldest known petroglyphs in North America
Aug 19, 2013 (SPX)
A new high-tech analysis led by a University of Colorado Boulder researcher shows the oldest known petroglyphs in North America, which are cut into several boul...
Spread of prehistoric peoples in California tied to environment
Aug 19, 2013 (UPI)
Environmental factors have helped shape California's diversity of Indian ethnic-and-language groups in the last 12,000 years, researchers say. Populations of pe...
Neandertals made the first specialized bone tools in Europe
Aug 15, 2013 (SPX)
Two research teams from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and the University of Leiden in the Netherlands have jointly...
Study contradicts concept of 'left brain,' 'right-brain' personalities
Aug 15, 2013 (UPI)
University of Utah scientists say their research suggests the popular conception of "right-brain," "left-brain" personality types has no basis in science. In po...
Scientists have found new evidence to show how early humans migrated into Europe
Aug 15, 2013 (SPX)
Humans originated in Africa. But what route did they take as they began to disperse around the world 60,000 years ago? A new professor at the University of Hudd...
Brain's flexible hub network helps humans adapt
Aug 14, 2013 (SPX)
One thing that sets humans apart from other animals is our ability to intelligently and rapidly adapt to a wide variety of new challenges - using skills learned...
Facebook boosts connections, not happiness: study
Aug 14, 2013 (AFP)
People who use Facebook may feel more connected, but less happy. A study of young adults released Wednesday concluded that the more people used Facebook, the wo...
A new archaeological technique gives insight into the day before death
Aug 13, 2013 (SPX)
The day before the child's death was not a pleasant one, because it was not a sudden injury that killed the 10-13 year old child who was buried in the medieval ...
Find indicates Neanderthals capable of making sophisticated bone tools
Aug 12, 2013 (UPI)
Neanderthals in Europe may have been the first humans to make a kind of standardized and specialized bone tool still in use today, researchers say. The tools fr...
Study explores effects of review setting on scientific peer review
Aug 12, 2013 (SPX)
Research findings published in PLOS ONE report that the setting in which a scientific peer review panel evaluates grant applications does not necessarily impact...
Psychological adaptation to urbanization, technology reflected in word usage over last 200 years
Aug 12, 2013 (SPX)
New research shows that as culture has evolved over the last two centuries - with increasing urbanization, greater reliance on technology, and widespread availa...
Cool heads likely won't prevail in a hotter, wetter world
Aug 07, 2013 (SPX)
Should climate change trigger the upsurge in heat and rainfall that scientists predict, people may face a threat just as perilous and volatile as extreme weathe...
Study: 'Adam' and 'Eve' lived in same time period
Aug 03, 2013 (UPI)
The most recent common male and female human ancestors -- so-called Adam and Eve -- lived during the same time period, U.S. and Italian researchers say. It has ...
Hot flashes? Thank evolution
Jul 31, 2013 (SPX)
A study of mortality and fertility patterns among seven species of wild apes and monkeys and their relatives, compared with similar data from hunter-gatherer hu...
World's first IVF baby born after preimplantation genome sequencing is now 11 months old
Jul 29, 2013 (SPX)
The largest genomic institute of the world, BGI Shenzhen, China (hereinafter BGI), together with Reproductive and Genetic Hospital CITIC-XIANGYA (hereinafter CI...
First human tests of new biosensor that warns when athletes are about to 'hit the wall'
Jul 29, 2013 (SPX)
A new biosensor, applied to the human skin like a temporary tattoo, can alert marathoners, competitive bikers and other "extreme" athletes that they're about to...
Extinct Ancient Ape Did Not Walk Like a Human
Jul 26, 2013 (SPX)
According to a new study, led by University of Texas at Austin anthropologists Gabrielle A. Russo and Liza Shapiro, the 9- to 7-million-year-old ape from Italy ...
Japanese women retake top spot for life expectancy
Jul 25, 2013 (AFP)
Japan's women retook their place as the world's longest-lived last year, edging out Hong Kongers as their life expectancy bounced back from the dip caused by th...
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