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Humans rank just below beavers when it comes to monogamy, study shows
17+ hour, 13+ min ago (529+ words) Wednesday, 14 Jan 2026 Humans sit somewhere between beavers and white-handed gibbons, with about 66% of siblings being full siblings, a study has found. "JULIAN STRATENSCHULTE/dpa Modern humans belong to a small minority of monogamous mammals and, in terms of partner fidelity,…...
No evidence Romans learned shipbuilding from Malay sailors, says historian
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (332+ words) SHAH ALAM: There is no archaeological evidence or historical record indicating that the ancient Roman civilization learned shipbuilding techniques from the Malays, Sinar Harian reports. Prof Emeritus Datuk Dr Wan Ramli Wan Daud (pic), a historian of Malay technology from…...
QuickCheck: Is it true that people used to eat Egyptian mummies?
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (368+ words) Monday, 27 Oct 2025 MEDICINE has come a long way, imagine a world where we didn't have anesthesia, insulin, or even vaccines? The world wouldn't be the same. Before any of us were born, reliable medicine was hard to come by. People…...
Hand and foot fossils found in Kenya for ancient human relative
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (594+ words) Saturday, 18 Oct 2025 (Reuters) -Researchers have unearthed near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya fossils of hand and foot bones belonging to an extinct human relative dating to 1.52 million years ago, revealing that this species would have been able to grasp and…...
Prehistoric skull rewrites history
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (447+ words) Saturday, 27 Sep 2025 A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than "previously thought and in Asia not Africa, a new study said. The findings are based on a reconstruction of…...
Ethiopian fossil Lucy leaves for her first exhibition in Europe
4+ mon, 4+ week ago (499+ words) The human ancestor fossil known as Lucy left Ethiopia for display in a European museum, Ethiopian national media reported on Friday, citing Tourism Minister Selamawit Kassa. Lucy's skeleton, which is 40% complete, left Ethiopia on Friday and will be displayed at…...
Ethiopian fossils reveal new species in human evolutionary lineage
5+ mon, 1+ day ago (756+ words) Thursday, 14 Aug 2025 Scientists hold fossilized hominin teeth discovered in the Ledi-Geraru paleoanthropological research area in the Afar Region of northeastern Ethiopia, in this undated handout picture released on August 13, 2025. Amy Rector, Virginia Commonwealth University/Handout via REUTERS (Reuters) -Researchers have…...
Scientists find possible artefacts of oldest known Wallacean hominids in Indonesia
5+ mon, 3+ day ago (348+ words) Stone tools are pictured at the site where archaeologists from Australia and Indonesia found small, chipped tools, used to cut little animals and carve rocks, under the soil in the Wallacea region, which scientists say may be evidence of humans…...
New findings reveal existence of prehistoric matrilineal society in east China
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (118+ words) Thursday, 05 Jun 2025 JINAN, June 4 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have confirmed the existence of a prehistoric matrilineal community in east China's Shandong Province, pushing back the established timeline of matrilineal social societies, which were previously believed to have emerged no earlier than…...
Global scientists develop South-East Asian population genome dataset
7+ mon, 3+ week ago (319+ words) A group of international researchers has constructed a comprehensive Southeast Asian population genome variation dataset, according to the Kunming Institute of Zoology (KIZ) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Sunday, 18 May 2025 SOUTH-EAST ASIA (Xinhua): A group of international researchers has…...