Amazon Indigenous People May Hold a Key to Slowing Down Aging
Tsimane people are unique for their healthy brains that age more slowly. A team of international researchers has found that the Tsimane indigenous people of…
Tsimane people are unique for their healthy brains that age more slowly. A team of international researchers has found that the Tsimane indigenous people of…
Ancient Judeans commonly ate non-kosher fish surrounding the time that such food was prohibited in the Bible, suggests a study published in the peer-reviewed journal Tel…
Early Dispersal of Neolithic Domesticated Sheep Into the Heart of Central Asia Along the Tian Shan and Alay mountain ranges of Central Asia, sheep, and…
When it comes to sexual attraction, women rate age, education, intelligence, income, trust, and emotion connection higher than men who put a greater priority on…
Study of medical studies reveals ancient aboriginal memory technique superior. Australian scientists have compared an ancient Greek technique of memorizing data to an even older…
The discovery of the earliest human burial site yet found in Africa, by an international team including several CNRS researchers,[1] has just been announced in…
Fossil apes can inform us about essential aspects of ape and human evolution, including the nature of our last common ancestor. In the 150 years…
Dating to 78,000 years ago, the burial was found by archaeologists in Panga ya Saidi, a cave site on the Kenyan coast. Despite being home…
An individual human can maintain stable social relationships with about 150 people. This is the proposition known as ‘Dunbar’s number’ – that the architecture of…
For the first time, scientists have succeeded in extracting and analyzing Neandertal chromosomal DNA preserved in cave sediments. The field of ancient DNA has revealed…
Research has shed new light on the impact of humans on Earth’s biodiversity. The findings suggest that the rate of change in an ecosystem’s plant…
The best path across the desert is rarely the straightest. For the first human inhabitants of Sahul — the super-continent that underlies modern Australia and…
Modern human-like brains evolved comparatively late in the genus Homo and long after the earliest humans first dispersed from Africa, according to a new study….
Pitchers’ fastballs are getting better and better. From 2008 to 2020, the average speeds of all major league baseball pitches combined rose by between 1.5…
Chance finds dating back 9000 years tell new story of Skokholm Island, Pembrokeshire. Chance finds of prehistoric stone tools and fragments of pottery, picked up…
Dog bones dated between circa 4200 and 4000 BCE discovered. A team of archaeologists in north-west of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has uncovered the…
The first in-depth look at the human ability to decode the range of emotions tied to the acoustic cues of screams. People are adept at…
The human brain as we know it today is relatively young. It evolved about 1.7 million years ago when the culture of stone tools in…