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How similar are the gestures of apes and human infants? More than you might suspect
Jun 07, 2013 (SPX)
Psychologists who analyzed video footage of a female chimpanzee, a female bonobo and a female human infant in a study to compare different types of gestures at ...
A grassy trend in human ancestors' diets
Jun 07, 2013 (SPX)
Most apes eat leaves and fruits from trees and shrubs. New studies spearheaded by the University of Utah show that human ancestors expanded their menu 3.5 milli...
Turning point for early human diets occurred 3.5 million years ago
Jun 06, 2013 (SPX)
The old saying "You are what you eat" takes on new significance in the most comprehensive analysis to date of early human teeth from Africa. Prior to about 3.5 ...
Tourism imperils way of life for Thai sea gypsies
Jun 06, 2013 (AFP)
They roamed the seas off the Andaman Coast for generations, but Thailand's sea gypsies say their traditional way of life is under threat and their homes at risk...
Scientists say fossil from China is oldest primate skeleton yet found
Jun 05, 2013 (UPI)
The world's oldest known fossil primate skeleton, a previously unknown genus, was unearthed from an ancient lakebed in central China, paleontologists say. The j...
Humans traded muscle for smarts as they evolved
May 28, 2013 (UPI)
You don't need be a scientist to see that it's the brain that sets humans apart from the rest of the animal kingdom. Humans may not be the fastest or biggest, b...
170,000 living in subdivided flats in Hong Kong: study
May 28, 2013 (AFP)
More than 170,000 people in Hong Kong are living in cramped subdivided flats, a government-commissioned study has found, underlining the scale of the city's hou...
China newborn rescued from toilet pipe: report
May 28, 2013 (AFP)
A newborn baby boy was rescued from a sewage pipe in a Chinese apartment building after being flushed down a toilet, state media said, provoking online outrage ...
Study: African terrain may have pushed humans into walking on two feet
May 28, 2013 (UPI)
Rugged landscapes in East and South Africa may have helped evolve humans' earliest ancestors from tree-dwelling quadrupeds to upright bipeds, scientists say. Re...
Monkey teeth help reveal Neanderthal weaning
May 27, 2013 (SPX)
Most modern human mothers wean their babies much earlier than our closest primate relatives. But what about our extinct relatives, the Neanderthals? A team of U...
Origins of human culture linked to rapid climate change
May 24, 2013 (SPX)
Rapid climate change during the Middle Stone Age, between 80,000 and 40,000 years ago, during the Middle Stone Age, sparked surges in cultural innovation in ear...
Do salamanders hold the solution to regeneration
May 22, 2013 (SPX)
Salamanders' immune systems are key to their remarkable ability to regrow limbs, and could also underpin their ability to regenerate spinal cords, brain tissue ...
Climate change boosted human development: study
May 21, 2013 (AFP)
Early humans living in South Africa made cultural and industrial leaps in periods of wetter weather, said a study Tuesday that compared the archaeological recor...
Brain frontal lobes not sole centre of human intelligence
May 21, 2013 (SPX)
Human intelligence cannot be explained by the size of the brain's frontal lobes, say researchers. Research into the comparative size of the frontal lobes in hum...
Pet lovers take blogging to the next level
May 16, 2013 (AFP)
When Dexter the cocker spaniel tore a ligament in his hind leg a few weeks ago, he didn't suffer in silence. Instead, his owner blogged about. "The vet told me ...
Searching for Clandestine Graves with Geophysical Tools
May 16, 2013 (SPX)
It's very hard to convict a murderer if the victim's body can't be found. And the best way to hide a body is to bury it. Developing new tools to find those clan...
Scientists see brain's ability to 'rewire' itself after damage, disease
May 16, 2013 (UPI)
When the brain's primary "learning center" is damaged it can rewire itself, creating new neural circuits to compensate for lost functions, U.S. researchers say....
Painless brain stimulation shown to improve mental math skills
May 16, 2013 (UPI)
Stimulation applied to a brain area known to be important for math ability has been shown to improve the ability to manipulate numbers, British researchers say....
Researchers: Human intelligence not solely result of large brain areas
May 15, 2013 (UPI)
Human intelligence can no longer be explained as just the evolutionary increase in the size of the brain's frontal lobes, British researchers say. A study by Du...
Secret streets of Britain's Atlantis are revealed
May 14, 2013 (SPX)
A University of Southampton professor has carried out the most detailed analysis ever of the archaeological remains of the lost medieval town of Dunwich, dubbed...
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