If these teeth could talk: What was really on the menus of our ancestors?
For human ancestors, eating could be hard work.
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Researchers consider ancestry of recent fossil finds
(PhysOrg.com) -- Someday a future intelligent organism could sweep away a million years of dust and find the bones of a Homo sapiens and wonder what he was.
Archaeology
Mar 21, 2011
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Chimpanzees found to age in ways similar to humans
A team of researchers from the University of New Mexico and the Kibale Chimpanzee Project in Uganda has found similarities between the way chimpanzees and humans age. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National ...
Chimpanzees too tend to be right-handed: Spanish study
Humans are not the only species to prefer to use their right hand -- chimpanzees also share the trait, according to a new study by Spanish scientists.
Plants & Animals
Oct 28, 2010
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Researchers find human ancestors switched to eating grasses earlier than thought
(Phys.org)—An international team of researchers has found evidence that suggests a human ancestor – Australopithecus bahrelghazali – was eating grass plants almost a million years earlier than most scientists had thought. ...
What makes an animal clever? Research shows intelligence is not just about using tools
Humans set themselves apart from other animals in a number of ways, including our ability to make tools. When the anthropologist Jane Goodall discovered that wild chimpanzees frequently make and use tools, her advisor Louis ...
Plants & Animals
May 15, 2017
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In the wild, chimpanzees are more motivated to cooperate than bonobos
We humans have unique cooperative systems allowing us to cooperate in large numbers. Furthermore, we provide help to others, even outside the family unit. How we developed these cooperative abilities and helping behavior ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 24, 2020
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Could some chimpanzees' crustacean crave yield clues about human evolution?
Why do we fish? At some point eons ago, our primarily fruit-eating ancestors put their hands in the water to catch and eat aquatic life, inadvertently supplementing their diet with nutrients that initiated a brain development ...
Plants & Animals
May 29, 2019
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Hyenas cooperate, problem-solve better than primates
(PhysOrg.com) -- Spotted hyenas may not be smarter than chimpanzees, but a new study shows that they outperform the primates on cooperative problem-solving tests.
Plants & Animals
Sep 28, 2009
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Chimpanzees can learn how to use tools without observing others
New observations have lead researchers to believe that chimpanzees can use tools spontaneously to solve a task, without needing to watch others first.
Plants & Animals
Sep 28, 2017
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