Sinuses offer new way of studying the evolution of ancient humans
The changing shape of the frontal sinuses is helping to reveal more about how modern humans, and our ancient relatives, evolved.
The changing shape of the frontal sinuses is helping to reveal more about how modern humans, and our ancient relatives, evolved.
Evolution
Oct 24, 2022
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The Black Death was the single greatest mortality event in recorded history, killing up to 50% of the European population in less than five years. New research from the University of Chicago, McMaster University, and the ...
Evolution
Oct 19, 2022
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Modern slavery and human trafficking are rife the world over. Indeed, more people are victim to these heinous crimes than ever before. Research in the International Journal of Human Rights and Constitutional Studies looks ...
Social Sciences
Oct 19, 2022
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Neanderthals and humans lived alongside each other in France and northern Spain for up to 2,900 years, modeling research suggested Thursday, giving them plenty of time to potentially learn from or even breed with each other.
Archaeology
Oct 13, 2022
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A new study by 33 orangutan experts from around the globe assessed what would happen to Bornean orangutans in the next decade under different management assumptions. The good news is that the researchers predict that if orangutan ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 13, 2022
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When the first modern humans arose in East Africa sometime between 200,000 and 300,000 years ago, the world was very different compared to today. Perhaps the biggest difference was that we—meaning people of our species, ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Oct 10, 2022
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A combined team of researchers from Western Washington University and the University of California, Berkeley, has found evidence indicating that the human linage that split from chimps underwent an increase in prenatal growth ...
The Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for 2022 has been awarded to Svante Pääbo from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, "for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct ...
Evolution
Oct 4, 2022
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Little is known of the mysterious Denisovans. These distant relatives of the Neanderthals roamed eastern and southern Eurasia but left little trace of their time on Earth.
Paleontology & Fossils
Oct 3, 2022
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While some may have been surprised that the Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to a paleogeneticist Monday, researchers say understanding our distant ancestors helps explain modern human health—even when it comes to COVID.
Paleontology & Fossils
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