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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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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Cryptocurrency might seem like a next-generation idea, but two University of Oregon researchers say it has roots in the past.
Archaeology
Jun 11, 2019
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Disgust or contempt.
Social Sciences
Jun 4, 2019
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Diet-induced changes in the human bite resulted in new sounds such as "f" in languages all over the world, according to a study by an international team led by researchers at the University of Zurich. The findings contradict ...
Archaeology
Mar 14, 2019
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An international team of researchers has revealed unexpected details about the peopling of Central and South America by studying the first high-quality ancient DNA data from those regions.
Archaeology
Nov 8, 2018
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Scientists researching the origins and evolution of graphic codes have turned to the popular web platform Reddit to explore how culture evolves. When a Reddit art initiative attracted over 1 million online participants, Thomas ...
Social Sciences
Sep 5, 2018
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A scientific consortium led by Dr. Eleanor Scerri, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford and researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, has found that human ancestors ...
Evolution
Jul 11, 2018
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