1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (618+ words) The revised age may help make sense of 2-million-year-old stone tools elsewhere in China. Two skulls from Yunxian, in northern China, aren't ancestors of Denisovans after all; they're actually the oldest known Homo erectus fossils in eastern Asia. (Side note:…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago  (26+ words) Radiocarbon results suggest a single origin and rapid diffusion through cultural transition networks. See full article. .. Study pinpoints when bow and arrow came to North America...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (23+ words) "Neanderthal deserts" in our genomes suggest a strong pattern in matings. See full article. .. Genomes chart the history of Neanderthal-modern human interactions...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (221+ words) A recent study suggests that North Africa may be a key place to look. A group of 773, 000-year-old hominin fossils from Morocco may shed new light on when our species branched off from the ancestors of Neanderthals and Denisovans. A…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (270+ words) Jennifer is a senior reporter at Ars Technica with a particular focus on where science meets culture, covering everything from physics and related interdisciplinary topics to her favorite films and TV series. She has been writing professionally about. .. Archaeologists have…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (225+ words) Jennifer is a senior reporter at Ars Technica with a particular focus on where science meets culture, covering everything from physics and related interdisciplinary topics to her favorite films and TV series. She has been writing professionally about. .. Yakisugi is…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (320+ words) We didn't start the fire. (Neanderthals did, at least 400, 000 years ago.) Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400, 000 years ago in what's now Suffolk, England. And glinting against the dull clay lay…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago  (303+ words) Jennifer is a senior reporter at Ars Technica with a particular focus on where science meets culture, covering everything from physics and related interdisciplinary topics to her favorite films and TV series. She has been writing professionally about. .. Easter Island…...

5+ mon, 1+ day ago  (260+ words) Jennifer is a senior reporter at Ars Technica with a particular focus on where science meets culture, covering everything from physics and related interdisciplinary topics to her favorite films and TV series. She has been writing professionally about. .. Scientists have…...

5+ mon, 2+ day ago  (25+ words) Chimps can take in new evidence, evaluate its strength, and change their minds. See full article. .. The evolution of rationality: How chimps process conflicting evidence...