Long held in a private collection, the newly analysed tooth of an approximately 9-year-old Neanderthal child marks the hominin’s southernmost known range. Analysis of the … Neanderthals and Homo sapiens used identical Nubian technologyRead more
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Entomologist confirms first Saharan farming 10,000 years ago
By analysing a prehistoric site in the Libyan desert, a team of researchers from the universities of Huddersfield, Rome and Modena & Reggio Emilia has … Entomologist confirms first Saharan farming 10,000 years agoRead more
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About 320,000 years ago human begun trading with distant groups
Anthropologists at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and an international team of collaborators have discovered that early humans in East Africa had — … About 320,000 years ago human begun trading with distant groupsRead more
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Genomic ancestry of Stone Age North Africans from Morocco
An international team of researchers, led by Johannes Krause and Choongwon Jeong from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (Jena, Germany), … Genomic ancestry of Stone Age North Africans from MoroccoRead more
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Modern humans interbred with Denisovans twice in history
Modern humans co-existed and interbred not only with Neanderthals, but also with another species of archaic humans, the mysterious Denisovans. While developing a new genome-analysis … Modern humans interbred with Denisovans twice in historyRead more
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Toxic Chemicals Threaten Humanity’s Ability to Reproduce
Shanna Swan is the senior author of a 2017 study that documented a dramatic drop in sperm counts in Western countries over the past half-century. … Toxic Chemicals Threaten Humanity’s Ability to ReproduceRead more
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100 Seconds to Midnight in Doomsday Clock
One hundred seconds to midnight. That’s how close humanity is to the apocalypse, and it’s as close as the world has ever been, according to … 100 Seconds to Midnight in Doomsday ClockRead more
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War Is Not Part of Human Nature
Do people, or perhaps just males, have an evolved predisposition to kill members of other groups? Not just a capacity to kill but an innate … War Is Not Part of Human NatureRead more
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Local cooking preferences drove acceptance of new crop staples in prehistoric China
The food preparation preferences of Chinese cooks — such as the technological choice to boil or steam grains, instead of grinding or processing them into … Local cooking preferences drove acceptance of new crop staples in prehistoric ChinaRead more
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Humans Are All More Closely Related Than We Commonly Think
The family tree of humanity is much more interconnected than we tend to think. “We’re culturally bound and psychologically conditioned to not think about ancestry … Humans Are All More Closely Related Than We Commonly ThinkRead more