Did humans evolve to run long distances?
Running is one thing humans are really good at. Could that be owed to hunting?
Tag: humans
Just how “human” are we? At most, 7% of your DNA is uniquely human, study finds
This type of finding is making researchers think that Neanderthals and Denisovans weren't all that different from us.
Humans aren’t inherently selfish – we’re actually hardwired to work together
The "good" side of our nature is much more deep-rooted than the "evil" side.
Like a baby’s bottom: why don’t humans have fur?
We’re pink, bare, and proud of it! But also unsure as to why.
Gorillas and humans treat their territory the same way, study finds
They defend the center of their land, but generally tolerate other gorillas.
Why do we do the things we do? A new study says it comes down to four factors
A new study reports that there are four broad categories for the motivations that drive human behavior: prominence, inclusiveness, negativity ...
Humans may have migrated across several routes in Asia
Climate change can sometimes open up new opportunities -- and ancient humans knew that well.
Potential new species of human found in cave in Philippines
This would make the 5th lineage that lived alongside modern humans.
Unbelievable experiment suggests humans are able to subconsciously sense Earth’s magnetic field
Humans have a 'sixth sense' after all.
Bronze-age Iberians included domesticated foxes and dogs in their burial practices
They say modern life is the best but I won't be convinced till I have a pet fox myself.
Neanderthal diet revolved around meat, new study finds
Caveburgers, anyone?
Birds perceive colors and hues the same way we do
Does this mean we see everything through a bird's eye view?
Fossils reveal that primates initially had nails and claws, we just lost the latter ones
Tighter social groups and a three-borne lifestyle likely prompted the switch.
Ancient jawbones hint at ancient humans’ diet
It's all about the dried meat and seeds.
Humanity is just 0.01% of all life but we wiped out 83% of all wild mammals
A new study reveals the staggering disproportionate impact that humanity has on wildlife.
Modern humans and Denisovans interbred at least twice in history
Our ancestors interbred both with Neanderthals and Denisovans.
Early modern humans formed complex social networks to avoid inbreeding as early as 34,000 years ago
The findings partially explain why humans were more successful than Neanderthals.
Neanderthals were distilling tar 200,000 years ago well before humans
Neanderthals were far more complex than meets the eye.
Tiny, fossilized ape skull brings us closer to the common human-ape ancestor, fuels debate over humanity’s place of birth
Not bad for such a small thing.
A lost race of hominids left their legacy in the saliva of Sub-Saharan populations
Unlikely discoveries hide in unlikely places.
How much does the Earth and its population weigh?
Humanity is getting more numerous and fatter while planet Earth itself is getting lighter.
Early Neanderthal DNA suggests a modern human-related dispersal from Africa as early as 220,000 years ago
New insight into the evolution of Neanderthals but also into a common ancestral lineage.
Scientists report new trove of information on Homo naledi, the newly discovered humanoid species
A primitive Homo species with some surprising skills.
We pick our mates by their genome — even if we aren’t aware of it
Humans too engage in assortative mating, scientists find.
Modern humans lost some of their smoke-resistance genes and we don’t know why
So remember, don't smoke kids.
Did Neanderthals and humans share the same hearing?
The study might help answer whether neanderthals were capable of the same communication abilities as humans.
No matter what your native language is – we all speak the same, study finds
Humans have a surprising tendency to use the same sounds for the same objects -- across language barriers.
Hands and digits evolved from fish fins, groundbreaking study proves
Our beloved hands are coded by the same genes that make fish fins.
Gene mutation helped early humans cope with smoke infested caves, but not Neanderthals
Early humans were far better smokers than Neanderthals, and this might have mattered a lot in the end.
Grumpy old monkeys are more picky with who they call friends, just like humans
Though they're separated by 25 million years of evolution, monkeys and humans share at least one common fact of life: ...
Human brain plasticity doesn’t seem to be shared by chimps – is this a unique gift?
It seems like evolution has fostered us humans all along for us to become the dominant species on planet Earth. ...
There’s a fourth tribe of founding European forefathers
It's widely agreed that modern Europeans trace their roots from three ancient tribes, or three important migration events, if you ...
Challenging the “Out of Africa” theory, one tooth at a time
Recent fossils unearthed in the Chinese province of Daoxian come to unravel the story of humanity’s spread as we know ...
Oldest footprints discovered in Europe are 800,000 years old
Area A at Happisburgh: View of footprint surface looking south, also showing underlying horizontally bedded laminated silts. (c) PLOS ONE ...
Chimps can work together similarily to humans, study shows
In a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists have shown that our closest ...
James Lovelock: Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change
James Lovelock is one of the world's most brilliant minds alive at the moment; he developed numerous technologies for NASA, ...
Ants – more rational than humans
Researchers from Arizona State University and Princeton University conducted a study that goes to show that our 'multimodal, egg-headed, tool-using, ...
First Neanderthal genome sequenced
The Neanderthal has spakled controversies around scientists for many years, and most questions remain unanswered even today; they had many ...
