New fossil find sheds light on how humans learned to walk
How did humans learn to walk upright?
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The homeland of modern humans
A study has concluded that the earliest ancestors of anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) emerged in a southern African 'homeland' and thrived there for 70 thousand years.
Archaeology
Oct 28, 2019
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Newly discovered microbes band together, 'flip out'
When researchers in Nicole King's lab looked through a microscope at the strange organisms they had collected in Curaçao, they saw sheets of cells clustered together in a pattern that resembled skin. That was unusual enough, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 17, 2019
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Computer simulations show human ancestors would have had an easier time giving birth than modern women
A trio of researchers with Boston University and Dartmouth College has found that one of our ancient ancestors likely had a much easier time giving birth than modern humans. In their paper published on the open-access site ...
Rare 10 million-year-old fossil unearths new view of human evolution
Near an old mining town in Central Europe, known for its picturesque turquoise-blue quarry water, lay Rudapithecus. For 10 million years, the fossilized ape waited in Rudabánya, Hungary, to add its story to the origins of ...
Archaeology
Sep 17, 2019
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New genomics approaches to nomura's jellyfish sheds light on early evolution of active predation
A recent study, affiliated with South Korea's Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) has analyzed the genetic map of Nomura's jellyfish, scientifically known as Nemopilema nomurai, for the first time.
Plants & Animals
Aug 27, 2019
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The Paleozoic diet: Why animals eat what they eat
In what is likely the first study to look at how dietary preferences evolved across the animal kingdom, UA researchers looked at more than a million species, going back 800 million years. The team reports several unexpected ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 22, 2019
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Changes in human diet shed light on human evolution
A shift in diet has long been seen as one of the critical adaptations that distinguishes our own genus Homo from earlier human ancestors. The timing and context of this dietary shift, however, has been hotly debated. A recent ...
Evolution
Jul 24, 2019
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White-tailed deer were predominant in pre-Columbian Panama feasts
In pre-Columbian times, the white-tailed deer was among the most abundant and frequently consumed mammals in Panama. It was also an icon, represented on thousands of clay vessels. Through an analysis of deer remains in refuse ...
Archaeology
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Out of Africa and into an archaic human melting pot
Genetic analysis has revealed that the ancestors of modern humans interbred with at least five different archaic human groups as they moved out of Africa and across Eurasia.
Evolution
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