‘Great ape-like brains’: Early humans who first ventured out of Africa 1.5 million years ago had 'monkey brains'

‘Great ape-like brains’: Early humans who first ventured out of Africa 1.5 million years ago had ‘monkey brains’

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Early humans still had great ape-like brains, according to a new study that found modern humans evolved to have our ...
What did Lucy and the Taung child look like? Early human ancestors get reconstructed faces

What did Lucy and the Taung child look like? Early human ancestors get reconstructed faces

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For the reconstructions of Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis), the oldest and most complete human ancestor when researchers discovered her 3.2 million-year-old ...
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Medieval graves yield genetic clues about kinship of Germanic warrior family

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A dozen lavish medieval graves holding the remains of 13 people have finally spilled their genetic secrets, now that researchers ...
111-year old mystery solved: Egyptian mummies from 2000 BCE are half-brothers, DNA analysis shows

111-year old mystery solved: Egyptian mummies from 2000 BCE are half-brothers, DNA analysis shows

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Two Egyptian mummies that rested next to each other for nearly 4,000 years are not full brothers, but rather half ...
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Sexy swimmers: Sperm cell tails use elastic springs to control movement

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Human sperm cells get an extra oomph forward as they swim, thanks to interconnected elastic springs in their tails that ...
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Why men are faster runners than women

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Given that both men and women train equally hard, why is it that men, on average, are faster runners than ...
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Ice age mammal bones discovered during subway construction in Los Angeles

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The discovery of ice age mammal bones — one belonging to an extinct camel and the other to either a ...
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Human de-extinction: If we disappear from the planet, should our species be revived?

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It's a tough call, but maybe not, according to a panel of five experts who debated "de-extinction" during the annual ...

Prehistoric ‘hand’ stencil actually belonged to lizard

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The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The roughly 8,000-year-old "hands" ...
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Mothers contribute more to human gene pool than fathers

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Mothers outnumbered fathers throughout much of human history, a new DNA analysis of people around the world shows. The genetic ...

The epigenetic jury is still out on C-sections

Scienceline | 
Unbeknownst to Bennett, giving his wife a C-section might have affected their daughter’s DNA, her children’s and her grandchildren’s. People ...
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