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No known hominin is ancestor of Neanderthals and modern humans
Oct 25, 2013 (SPX)
The search for a common ancestor linking modern humans with the Neanderthals who lived in Europe thousands of years ago has been a compelling subject for resear...
Long-term memory helps chimpanzees in their search for food
Oct 25, 2013 (SPX)
Where do you go when the fruits in your favourite food tree are gone and you don't know which other tree has produced new fruit yet? An international team of re...
The evolutionary benefit of human personality traits
Oct 24, 2013 (SPX)
Bold and outgoing or shy and retiring - while many people can shift from one to the other as circumstances warrant, in general they lean toward one disposition ...
Hitchhiking virus confirms saga of ancient human migration
Oct 23, 2013 (SPX)
A study of the full genetic code of a common human virus offers a dramatic confirmation of the "out-of-Africa" pattern of human migration, which had previously ...
Sinking teeth into the evolutionary origin of our skeleton
Oct 22, 2013 (SPX)
For decades, it was thought that our skeleton and all its characteristic bony tissues originated in the predators, known as 'conodonts'. However new research, l...
Marmoset monkeys know polite conversation
Oct 22, 2013 (SPX)
Humans aren't the only species that knows how to carry on polite conversation. Marmoset monkeys, too, will engage one another for up to 30 minutes at a time in ...
Archaeologists rediscover the lost home of the last Neanderthals
Oct 22, 2013 (SPX)
A record of Neanderthal archaeology, thought to be long lost, has been re-discovered by NERC-funded scientists working in the Channel island of Jersey. The stud...
Complete skull from early Homo evokes a single, evolving lineage
Oct 22, 2013 (SPX)
What if the earliest members of our Homo genus-those classified as Homo habilis, Homo rudolfensis, Homo erectus and so forth-actually belonged to the same speci...
Mysterious ancient human crossed Wallace's Line
Oct 22, 2013 (SPX)
Scientists have proposed that the most recently discovered ancient human relatives -- the Denisovans -- somehow managed to cross one of the world's most promine...
Unique skull find rebuts theories on species diversity in early humans
Oct 21, 2013 (SPX)
Paleoanthropologists from the University of Zurich have uncovered the intact skull of an early Homo individual in Dmanisi, Georgia. This find is forcing a chang...
Young apes manage emotions like humans
Oct 18, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers studying young bonobos in an African sanctuary have discovered striking similarities between the emotional development of the bonobos and that of ch...
Genetics suggests early human relatives made impressive migrations
Oct 18, 2013 (UPI)
Some ancient human relatives somehow managed to cross one of the world's widest marine barriers in Indonesia to interbreed with modern humans, scientists say. G...
1.8-million-year-old skull find creates debate over human origins
Oct 17, 2013 (UPI)
The discovery of a 1.8-million-year-old human skull in Europe is igniting debate on the origins of distinct species of ancient human relatives, scientists say. ...
The Longevity of Human Civilizations
Oct 16, 2013 (SPX)
A question often asked by those involved in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is, "How long can advanced civilizations last?" The search for i...
New theory of synapse formation in the brain
Oct 16, 2013 (SPX)
The human brain keeps changing throughout a person's lifetime. New connections are continually created while synapses that are no longer in use degenerate. To d...
Hunters and farmers lived side-by-side for 2,000 years
Oct 15, 2013 (SPX)
Hunter-gatherers and immigrant farmers lived side-by-side for more than 2,000 years in Central Europe, before the hunter-gatherer communities died out or were a...
Living descendants of 5,300-year-old 'Iceman' identified
Oct 14, 2013 (UPI)
Scientists say DNA analysis allowed them to identify 19 living Austrian men related Oetzi the Iceman, whose 5,300-year-old frozen body was found in the Alps. Re...
Primate brains follow predictable development pattern
Oct 14, 2013 (SPX)
In a breakthrough for understanding brain evolution, neuroscientists have shown that differences between primate brains - from the tiny marmoset to human - can ...
Longer life for humans linked to further loss of endangered species
Oct 11, 2013 (SPX)
As human life expectancy increases, so does the percentage of invasive and endangered birds and mammals, according to a new study by the University of Californi...
Study suggests women, not men, created much of ancient cave art
Oct 11, 2013 (UPI)
A study of hand prints on cave walls suggests much of Paleolithic cave art was created by women, a Penn State archaeologist says. Taking as his starting point p...
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