Nov. 29, 2018 Beginning more than 1.5 million years ago, early humans made stone handaxes in a style known as the Acheulean - the longest lasting tool-making tradition in prehistory. New research has documented an ...
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Nov. 27, 2018 Microbes could have performed oxygen-producing photosynthesis at least one billion years earlier in the history of the Earth than previously ...
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Nov. 27, 2018 As far back as 40,000 years ago, humans kept track of time using relatively sophisticated knowledge of the stars, new research ...
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Nov. 27, 2018 A new study shows that the genetic makeup of northern Europe traces back to migrations from Siberia that began at least 3,500 years ago and that, as recently as the Iron Age, ancestors of the Saami ...
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Nov. 23, 2018 New research disputes a long-held view that our earliest tool-bearing ancestors contributed to the demise of large mammals in Africa over the last several million years. Instead, the researchers ...
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Nov. 21, 2018 The fossil record of early hominins in South Africa is biased towards periods of drier climate, suggests a study of cave deposits. This finding suggests there are gaps in the fossil record, ...
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Nov. 19, 2018 A study by an international team of researchers have determines that carved stone tools, also known as Levallois cores, were used in Asia 80,000 to 170,000 years ago. With the find -- and absent ...
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Nov. 19, 2018 A previously unappreciated interaction in the genome turns out to have possibly been one of the driving forces in the emergence of advanced life. This discovery began with a curiosity for ...
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Nov. 14, 2018 An ape maxilla (upper jaw) from the Late Miocene found in the Kutch basin, in western India, significantly extends the southern range of ancient apes in the Indian Peninsula, according to a new ...
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Nov. 12, 2018 Analysis of ancient DNA of a mysterious extinct monkey named Xenothrix -- which displays bizarre body characteristics very different to any living monkey -- has revealed that it was in fact most ...
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Nov. 9, 2018 Stone tools that were discovered and examined by a group of international experts showed for the first time that various communities that lived during the Middle Stone Age period were widely ...
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Nov. 8, 2018 A team has used genome-wide ancient DNA data to revise Central and South American history. Their analysis of DNA from 49 individuals spanning about 10,000 years in Belize, Brazil, the Central Andes, ...
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Nov. 8, 2018 A wide ranging international study that genetically analysed the DNA of a series of famous and controversial ancient remains across North and South America has discovered that the Spirit Cave remains ...
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Nov. 5, 2018 Although dairy pastoralism once made Mongolian steppe herders successful enough to conquer most of Asia and Europe, the origins of this way of life on the East Asian steppe are still unclear. Now an ...
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Nov. 2, 2018 Scientists have researched what might have favored the periodicity of certain base pairs in the genomes of eukaryotic ...
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Nov. 2, 2018 Cancer-causing human papillomaviruses (HPVs) diverged from their most recent common ancestors approximately half a million years ago, roughly coinciding with the timing of the split between archaic ...
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Oct. 31, 2018 Using evidence found in teeth from two Neanderthals from southeastern France, researchers report the earliest evidence of lead exposure in an extinct human-like species from 250,000 years ...
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Oct. 30, 2018 Scientists have completed the first 3D virtual reconstruction of the ribcage of the most complete Neanderthal skeleton unearthed to date. Using CT scans of fossils from an approximately ...
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Oct. 29, 2018 Scientists have created microorganisms that may recapitulate key features of organisms thought to have lived billions of years ...
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Oct. 29, 2018 A new study suggests that early hominin dispersals beyond Africa did not involve adaptations to environmental extremes, such as to arid and harsh deserts. The discovery of stone tools and cut-marks ...
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