New fossil find sheds light on how humans learned to walk
How did humans learn to walk upright?
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How human population came from our ability to cooperate
Humans may owe their place as Earth's dominating species to their ability to share and cooperate with each other, according to a new study published in the Journal of Anthropological Research.
Evolution
Nov 6, 2019
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Intense monitoring and care lift mountain gorilla numbers
Deep in the rainforest of Volcanoes National Park, a 23-year-old female gorilla named Kurudi feeds on a stand of wild celery. She bends the green stalks and, with long careful fingers, peels off the exterior skin to expose ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 29, 2019
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A secret in saliva: Food and germs helped humans evolve into unique member of great apes
Two million years of eating meat and cooked food may have helped humans shift further from other great apes on the evolutionary tree. The evidence is in our saliva, according to new research from the University at Buffalo.
Evolution
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Apes are shown to rely on self-experience to anticipate others' actions
As close evolutionary relatives, you could say that great apes and humans look somewhat similar. And the more we learn about our great ape cousins, the more we find that we're alike.
Plants & Animals
Sep 30, 2019
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Orangutans can play the kazoo – here's what this tells us about the evolution of speech
A kazoo might seem a world away from the spoken word. But our ability to produce its buzzing, Donald Duck-like sound at will was key in us ever developing the ability to speak at all. And while our capacity for speech is ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 26, 2019
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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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Indonesia's toxic haze affecting Borneo's orangutans—rescuers
Massive forest fires in Indonesia that have caused a toxic haze to spread as far as Singapore and peninsular Malaysia are also seriously affecting endangered orangutans and their habitat, a rescue foundation said Tuesday.
Ecology
Sep 17, 2019
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Orangutans hold the key to human speech
New research, led by scientists from the University of St Andrews and Indianapolis Zoo, shows that great apes can control their voice in a similar way to humans, giving a unique insight into the evolution of human language.
Plants & Animals
Aug 27, 2019
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Researcher observes the unexpected: nut-eating gorillas
Despite their large body size, gorillas are known to have a vegetarian diet consisting almost exclusively of leafy vegetation and fruit. Their teeth are large and high-crested when compared to other great apes, which is usually ...
Plants & Animals
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