Hunter-gatherer societies typically had low wealth disparities. Their mobility would make it hard to accumulate wealth. (stock image)
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Researchers at Washington State University and 13 other institutions have found that the arc of prehistory bends...
Every culture enjoys music and song, and those songs serve many different purposes: accompanying a dance, soothing an infant, or expressing love. Now, after analyzing recordings from all around the world, researchers reporting in Current Biology on January 25 show that...
This image shows cone photoreceptors (green) in a slice from a mouse retina. A majority of the photoreceptors (97%) in the retina are rods (black). The black layer on top of the photoreceptors is retinal pigment epithelium.Credit: Jung-Woong Kim
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New genomic data suggest that the first human settlers on the Scandinavian peninsula followed two distinct migration routes. The study publishing January 9 in the open access journal PLOS Biology led by researchers from Uppsala University with an international team of...
Blood group analyses for three Neanderthals and one Denisovan by a team from the Anthropologie Bio-Culturelle, Droit, Éthique et Santé research unit (CNRS / Aix-Marseille University / EFS) confirm hypotheses concerning their African origin, Eurasian dispersal, and interbreeding with...
Our ancestors evolved three times faster in the 10 million years after the extinction of the dinosaurs than in the previous 80 million years, according to UCL researchers.
The team found the speed of evolution of placental mammals -- a...
The Corythosaurus skull, collected in 1920 by George Sternberg, is in the University of Alberta's Paleontology Museum.
Credit: Katherine Bramble
After being headless for almost a century, a dinosaur skeleton that had become a tourist attraction in Dinosaur Provincial Park was...
There is no truth to the popular belief that members of the so-called baby boomer generation have a greater work ethic than people born a decade or two later. This is according to a team of US researchers led...
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Deep in the caves of Goyet in Belgium researchers have found the grisly evidence that the Neanderthals did not just feast on horses or reindeer, but also on each other.
Human bones from a newborn, a child...
Separate skeletons suggested to be from different early hominin species are, in fact, from the same species, a team of anthropologists has concluded in a comprehensive analysis of remains first discovered a decade ago.
The research appears in a special...
Lipo and a team of researchers analyzed human, faunal and botanical remains from the archaeological sites Anakena and Ahu Tepeu on Rapa Nui, dating from c. 1400 AD to the historic period, and modern reference material.
Credit: Jonathan Cohen, Binghamton...
