A UAB research team has developed PopHumanVar, an application that helps reconstructing the evolutionary past of the human species through the identification of specific genetic mutations that have allowed us to adapt to ...
Evolution
Feb 2, 2022
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For as long as "History" with a capital "H' has been written, Indigenous peoples have been placed outside its circle. Consequently, whole groups of peoples, whole continents like Australia, and whole spans of human time, ...
Social Sciences
Oct 27, 2021
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Children with higher levels of general knowledge and verbal reasoning are better able to produce humor, new research carried out on Turkish schoolchildren suggests.
Social Sciences
Oct 4, 2021
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Dutch archaeologists said on Wednesday they have unearthed a Roman canal and road near ancient military camps that were this week listed on UNESCO's list of World Heritage sites.
Archaeology
Jul 28, 2021
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It is at the confluence of different experiences that new theories come into being. Writing in this week's "Perspectives" in the journal Science, ASU researchers Kim Hill and Rob Boyd comment on new science by Barsbai et ...
Evolution
Jan 14, 2021
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A new UO study confirms what earth scientists have long suspected: Plants first appeared on land about 460 million years ago, in the middle of a 45-million-year-long geologic period known as the Ordovician.
Earth Sciences
Nov 4, 2020
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All humans alive today can claim a common ancestral link to some hominin. Hominins include modern humans, extinct human species, and all our immediate ancestors.
Paleontology & Fossils
Jun 10, 2020
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University of Oregon scientists are probing archaeological evidence for how indigenous peoples used sea otters, and their findings could help Alaskans confront growing numbers of the mammals and Oregonians who want to reintroduce ...
Archaeology
Jun 2, 2020
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359
New research on one history's most important trading hubs provides some of the earliest genetic glimpses at the movement and interactions of populations that lived in parts of Western Asia between two major events in human ...
Archaeology
May 28, 2020
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In a paper published in Journal of Cultural Analytics, an interdisciplinary group of researchers used machine learning to extract 327,322 faces from an archive of Time Magazine containing 3,389 issues dating from 1923 to ...
Social Sciences
Apr 23, 2020
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