Study of hunter-gatherer community in Tanzania shows that, across human groups, mating criteria vary.
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Colorful birds possibly raised for ceremonial and trade purposes long before Spanish arrival
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Droughts were actually good times for early humans, helping to develop skills for survival in other parts of the world, Lisa Grossman reports in a blog from the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing's New Horizons in Science meeting.
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Island-dwelling pygmies provide contested evidence that body size shrinks as mortality rates climb.
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Two ancient populations laid the genetic foundation for most people now living in India, a new DNA study suggests.
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Two ancient populations laid the genetic foundation for most people now living in India, a new DNA study suggests.Plant fibers excavated at a cave in western Asia suggest that people there made twine more than 30,000 years ago. A comparison of wrist bones from African apes and monkeys indicates that human ancestors began walking by exploiting the evolutionary legacy of ancient, tree-climbing apes. A new study links the simian immunodeficiency virus to serious AIDS-like illness in a wild population. A chemical analysis of skeletons from Peru’s Andes Mountains suggests that cultivation of key crop made building a prehistoric civilization possible. |
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