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Bone Tumor in 120,000-Year-Old Neandertal Discovered
The first-known definitive
case of a benign bone tumor
has been discovered in the
rib of a young Neandertal
who lived about 120,000
years ago in what is now
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A Grassy Trend in Human Ancestors' Diets
Most apes eat leaves and
fruits from trees and
shrubs. New studies show
that human ancestors
expanded their menu 3.5
million years ago, adding
tropical grasses and sedges
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Monkey Teeth Help Reveal Neanderthal Weaning
Most modern human mothers
wean their babies much
earlier than our closest
primate relatives. But what
about our extinct relatives,
the Neanderthals? A team of
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Oldest Fossil Hominin Ear Bones Ever Recovered: Discovery Could Yield Important Clues on Human Origins
Anthropologists could shed
new light on the earliest
existence of humans. The
study analyzed the tiny ear
bones, the malleus, incus
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Big Movies and Other Cultural Products Have Evolutionary Roots
June 12, 2013 — Epic battles, whirlwind romances, family feuds, heroic attempts to save the lives of strangers: these are stories guaranteed to grace the silver screen. According to new research, that's not lazy ... > full story -
How Similar Are the Gestures of Apes and Human Infants? More Than You Might Suspect
June 6, 2013 — A new study used naturalistic video data for the first time to compare gestures in a female chimpanzee, bonobo and human ... > full story -
Collecting DNA for Human Rights: How to Help While Safeguarding Privacy
May 15, 2013 — DNA databases might help identify victims of crime and human trafficking, but how do we safeguard the personal privacy of innocent victims and family members? A new report identifies a number of key ... > full story -
Fossil of Great Ape Sheds Light on Evolution
May 1, 2013 — An integrative anatomy expert says the shape of an 11.8-million-year-old specimen's pelvis indicates that it lived near the beginning of the great ape evolution, after the lesser apes had started to ... > full story -
Ancient DNA Reveals Europe's Dynamic Genetic History
April 23, 2013 — Ancient DNA recovered from a series of skeletons in central Germany up to 7,500 years old has been used to reconstruct the first detailed genetic history of modern ... > full story -
Evolving Genes Lead to Evolving Genes: Selection in European Populations of Genes Regulated by FOXP2
April 18, 2013 — Researchers have designed a method that can universally test for evolutionary adaption, or positive (Darwinian) selection, in any chosen set of genes, using re-sequencing data such as that generated ... > full story -
Family Ties: Completion of Zebrafish Reference Genome Yields Strong Comparisons With Human Genome
April 17, 2013 — Researchers demonstrate today that 70 per cent of protein-coding human genes are related to genes found in the zebrafish and that 84 per cent of genes known to be associated with human disease have a ... > full story -
Findings Confirm Early South African Hominins
April 15, 2013 — Close examination of the lower jawbone, teeth and skeleton of the hominid species Australopithecus sediba proves conclusively that it is uniquely different from a closely related species, ... > full story -
Tulip Tree Reveals Mitochondrial Genome of Ancestral Flowering Plant
April 15, 2013 — The extraordinary level of conservation of the tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) mitochondrial genome has redefined our interpretation of evolution of the angiosperms (flowering plants). This ... > full story -
How 2-Million-Year-Old Ancestor Moved: Sediba's Ribcage and Feet Were Not Suitable for Running
April 11, 2013 — Researchers have described the anatomy of a single early hominin in six new studies. Australopithecus sediba was discovered near Johannesburg in 2008. The studies demonstrate how our ... > full story
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