(Phys.org)—Charles Janson, a professor of biological anthropology, zoology and evolutionary biology at the University of Montana, has found that capuchin monkeys have memory abilities that are far more complex than has ...
Why do football fans feel so passionate about their team even if it is languishing at the bottom of the league and why is such loyalty so deeply entrenched? New research by the University of Oxford could provide the answer.
Social Sciences
Aug 19, 2016
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(Phys.org)—A quartet of researchers at Simon Fraser University in Canada has found evidence that suggests that the reason early humans were able to survive the ice age while the Neanderthal perished is because humans figured ...
News headlines this summer paint a gloomy picture of conflict across the globe. These stories suggest that group differences—whether religious, ethnic, or political—seem to divide rather than unite us. Taking a broader ...
Social Sciences
Aug 4, 2016
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Fossil bones and stone tools can tell us a lot about human evolution, but certain dynamic behaviours of our fossil ancestors – things like how they moved and how individuals interacted with one another – are incredibly ...
Archaeology
Jul 12, 2016
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Modern humans have adapted to their local environments over many thousands of years, but how genetic variation contributed to this adaptation remains debated. Using genomes from humans that lived between 45,000 and 7,000 ...
Archaeology
Mar 18, 2016
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The ability of offensive jokes to undermine intolerance is the subject of a study by a University of Kent anthropologist.
Social Sciences
Mar 15, 2016
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Previous analyses of the hominins from Sima de los Huesos in 2013 showed that their maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA was distantly related to Denisovans, extinct relatives of Neandertals in Asia. This was unexpected ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Mar 15, 2016
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Chimpanzees often use tools to extract or consume food. Which tools they choose for which purpose, however, can differ depending on the region where they live. Researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 29, 2016
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In our supermarkets we buy raspberries in winter and chestnuts in summer. But how challenging would life become, if we needed to consume large amounts of fruit for our daily meal and had to collect them ourselves? With a ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 22, 2016
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