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Monkeys Provide Clues to How Tool Use Developed
Monkeys do not exhibit human dexterity with tools, according to Madhur Mangalam of the University of Georgia, one of the authors of a recent study of how capuchin monkeys in Brazil crack open palm nuts. “Monkeys are working as blacksmiths,” he said, “They’re not working as goldsmiths.”
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Newfound human ancestor may have lived alongside Lucy
Australopithecus deyiremeda, which lived about 3.4 million yeas ago, suggests our ancestors were more diverse than we thought
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Could this be the world's first known murder?
Signs of trauma to a 430,000-year-old skull may be evidence of a prehistoric homicide
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Forget what you thought you knew about early human's migration from Africa
Early humans migrated out of Africa more than 60,000 years ago through Egypt rather than crossing the shallow sea that separated Ethiopia from the Arabian Peninsula as some archaeologists have suggested, a study of the DNA of modern people has found.
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Chimpanzees want to cook their food
Our closest relatives have the mental ability to cook and will do so when given the chance, according to a new study.
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Prehistoric Gold Trade Route Discovered
Archaeologists have found evidence of an ancient gold trade route between the south-west of the UK and Ireland, which would mean people were trading gold between the two countries as far back as the early Bronze Age, 2500 B.C.
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How a history of eating human brains protected this tribe from brain disease
The findings from Papua New Guinea offer possible insights into Alzheimer's and dementia.
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Milk digestion’s ‘more recent rise’
The ability to digest milk appears to have become common only very recently in Europe, according to a new study.
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DNA data explosion lights up the Bronze Age
Population-scale studies suggest that migrants spread steppe language and technology.
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Wade Davis walks on the wild side
A talk with anthropologist and author Wade Davis
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DNA reignites Kennewick Man debate
DNA tests show an ancient skeleton known as Kennewick Man is related to modern Native Americans - reigniting a debate over whether his bones should be returned to local tribes and reburied.
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This Haunting Animation Maps the Journeys of 15,790 Slave Ships in Two Minutes
Usually, when we say “American slavery” or the “American slave trade,” we mean the American colonies or, later, the United States. But as we discussed in Episode 2 of Slate’s History of American Slavery Academy, relative to the entire slave trade, North America was a bit player. From the trade’s...
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How the Inca Empire Engineered a Road Across Some of the World’s Most Extreme Terrain
For a new exhibition, a Smithsonian curator conducted oral histories with contemporary indigenous cultures to recover lost Inca traditions.
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Chimps and the Zen of Falling Water
There is a waterfall in Tanzania’s Gombe National Park. Maybe 12 feet high, it’s fairly modestly sized, though even a modest waterfall is quite a magical thing. And it’s here that chimpanzees come to dance…
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Was human evolution inevitable or a matter of luck?
Was human evolution inevitable, or do we owe our existence to a once-in-a-universe stroke of luck?
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Old World Monkey Had Tiny, Complex Brain
Video shows the 3-dimensional computer model of the oldest known Old World monkey skull, believed to be 15 million years old.
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Library of alt science
Lots of cool articles about bizzare shit. Some of them are gold and others are pure bullshit. In any case its a cool collection of non mainstream ideas and alt imterpretations of our world.
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The Original Human Language Like Yoda Sounded
Early humans most likely spoke like Yoda, with a subject-object-verb word order, according to new research.
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Army’s Anthropology Experiment Ends in Defeat
Embedding social scientists in combat is a good idea -- but they should be in uniform.
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Nut-Bashing Monkeys Offer Window Into Human Evolution
Brazil’s bearded capuchins know how much force is needed to crack open a nut—a surprisingly human-like skill, a new study says.
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