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New Au. sediba fossils discovered in rock
Jul 16, 2012 (SPX)
South African scientists will share the country's latest fossil discovery with the world using live virtual technology. Scientists from the Wits Institute for H...
Native American populations descend from three key migrations
Jul 13, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists have found that Native American populations - from Canada to the southern tip of Chile - arose from at least three migrations, with the majority desc...
Seabirds studied for clues to human aging
Jul 03, 2012 (UPI)
Canadian researchers say they're studying diving seabirds in Hudson Bay to better understand the aging process. Brunnich's guillemots reach their 30s and then d...
Hong Kong's land shortage forces bereaved to sea
Jul 03, 2012 (AFP)
Even death does not provide relief from soaring property prices in Hong Kong, where those seeking a final resting place for a loved one face high costs and a sh...
Diet of early human relative Australopithecus shows surprises
Jul 02, 2012 (SPX)
Australopithecus sediba, believed to be an early relative of modern-day humans, enjoyed a diet of leaves, fruits, nuts, and bark, which meant they probably live...
Outside View: 18th-century words for today
Jun 28, 2012 (UPI)
Nearly 240 years have passed since America first declared its independence. Since then, our population has become healthier, better sheltered and more mobile th...
Did pre-human diet choice affect survival?
Jun 27, 2012 (UPI)
A pre-human relative species ate only forest foods even though they lived near grassy savanna with tasty tubers and even juicy animals, U.S. researchers say. Au...
Out of the mouths of primates, facial mechanics of human speech may have evolved
Jun 25, 2012 (SPX)
The throat and facial movements that twist the air pushing through your vocal cords into words could be rooted in the well-meaning expressions primates exchange...
'Brain-hacking' technology sought
Jun 24, 2012 (UPI)
Stanford University researchers say they are working on a device that would allow them to "pretty much hack" into the brain of British genius Stephen Hawking. P...
Google sets out to save dying languages
Jun 21, 2012 (AFP)
Google has set out to save the world's dying languages. In an alliance with scholars and linguists, the Internet powerhouse on Wednesday introduced an Endangere...
Adaptable decision making in the brain
Jun 21, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of Iowa, together with colleagues from the California Institute of Technology and New York University, have discovered how a part ...
The Rare Biosphere of the Human Body
Jun 19, 2012 (SPX)
The landmark publication of a "map" of the bacterial make-up of healthy humans has deep roots in an unexpected place: the ocean. Microbial communities that live...
Expanding waistlines threaten the planet: researchers
Jun 18, 2012 (AFP)
If the human race keeps growing fatter at American rates, the Earth may face a rise in food demand equal to that of nearly a billion extra people, British resea...
More people, more environmental stress
Jun 13, 2012 (SPX)
Although it's long been suspected that human activity has greatly contributed to environmental stress, it's only recently that science has begun to show just ho...
How infectious disease may have shaped human origins
Jun 11, 2012 (SPX)
Roughly 100,000 years ago, human evolution reached a mysterious bottleneck: Our ancestors had been reduced to perhaps five to ten thousand individuals living in...
Homo heidelbergensis was only slightly taller than the Neanderthal
Jun 11, 2012 (SPX)
The reconstruction of 27 complete human limb bones found in Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain) has helped to determine the height of various species of the Pleistocene e...
Fossil discovery sheds new light on evolutionary history of higher primates
Jun 07, 2012 (SPX)
An international team of researchers has announced the discovery of Afrasia djijidae, a new fossil primate from Myanmar that illuminates a critical step in the ...
Human hands leave prominent ecological footprints
Jun 05, 2012 (SPX)
Early human activity has left a greater footprint on today's ecosystem than previously thought, say researchers working at the University of Pittsburgh and in t...
Monkey lip smacks provide new insights into the evolution of human speech
Jun 05, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists have traditionally sought the evolutionary origins of human speech in primate vocalizations, such as monkey coos or chimpanzee hoots. But unlike thes...
University of Tennessee anthropologists find American heads are getting larger
Jun 05, 2012 (SPX)
White Americans' heads are getting bigger. That's according to research by forensic anthropologists at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Lee Jantz, coordi...
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