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Human-Neandertal Mating Gets a New Date
A new study suggests that present-day Europeans share more genes with now-extinct Neandertals than do living Africans, at least...
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Did Eating Meat Make Us Human?
Fragments of a 1.5-million-year-old skull from a child recently found in Tanzania suggest early hominids weren’t just occasional carnivores...
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Genetic Mutation Explains Human Migration
Homo sapiens appeared 180,000 years ago, but for the next hundred thousand years stuck to a comparatively small area...
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Men and Women Really Do See the World Differently
Guys’ eyes are more sensitive to small details and moving objects, while women are more perceptive to color changes,...
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Gibbons and Opera Singers Use the Same Voice Tools
It’s an old party trick—sucking helium from balloons so you can sing like a Wizard of Oz munchkin. When...
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Brain Wiring, Not Just Size, Helped Humans Evolve Beyond Chimps
Human and chimp brains look anatomically similar because both evolved from the same ancestor millions of years ago. But...
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Skull Resets Human Migration Clock
Newfound pieces of human skull from “the Cave of the Monkeys” in Laos are the earliest skeletal evidence yet...
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Ancestor of Sharks, Humans Had Sixth Sense
The common ancestor of sharks and humans — and all jawed animals with a backbone for that matter —...
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Only Humans Care About Fairness
Humans could be the only animals that are sensitive to fairness, suggests a new Royal Society Biology Letters study....
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Genetic Analysis Solves Human-Neanderthal Interbreeding Puzzle
Human history more than matches the best soap operas and Hollywood thrillers. The latest blockbuster is a tale of...