When early Stone Age farmers first moved into Europe from the Near East about 8,000 years ago, they met and began mixing with the existing hunter-gatherer populations. Now genome-wide studies of hundreds of ancient genomes ...
Evolution
Mar 23, 2023
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Superb fairy wrens are more likely to take risks to help members of their close social circle, according to an international team of researchers including scientists from Monash University and The Australian National University ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 12, 2023
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Multilevel societies are among the most complex societies known in nature. They are organized like Russian nesting dolls—individuals belong to family groups, which belong to clans, which belong to tribes.
Plants & Animals
Mar 10, 2023
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An international team of researchers has analyzed ancient human DNA from several archaeological sites in Andalucía in southern Spain. The study reports on the oldest genome to date from Cueva del Malalmuerzo in southern ...
Archaeology
Mar 1, 2023
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A team of researchers affiliated with a host of institutions across Germany, working with a colleague from South Africa, has used isotope and ancient DNA analysis to learn more about the mobility of Anatolian and Levantine ...
For most people around the world, physical work takes up a great amount of time and energy every day. But what determines whether it is men or women who are working harder in households? In most hunter-gatherer societies, ...
Social Sciences
Jan 10, 2023
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If you had the grooming habits of a Neanderthal, perhaps it's a good thing your nose wasn't as sensitive to urine and sweat as a modern human's.
Evolution
Jan 5, 2023
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Analysis of more than 1,200 vessels from hunter-gatherer sites has shown that pottery-making techniques spread vast distances over a short period of time through the transmission of social traditions.
Archaeology
Dec 22, 2022
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If you're cooking a meal for Thanksgiving or just showing up to feast, you're part of a long human history—one that's older than our own species.
Archaeology
Nov 24, 2022
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More than 7,000 languages are spoken in the world. This linguistic diversity is passed on from one generation to the next, similarly to biological traits. But have language and genes evolved in parallel over the past few ...
Social Sciences
Nov 21, 2022
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