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Some Humans May Still Be Carrying Neanderthal Strength in Their DNA, Study Finds
2+ week, 1+ day ago (193+ words) The scientific community has been on a Neanderthal hot streak lately, each new find broadening our idea of who our ancient ancestors really were. Turns out, they were a lot smarter, a lot friendlier, a lot more family-focused than we…...
A 145,000-Year-Old Skull May Show the Oldest Known Evidence of a Face Stabbing
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (171+ words) One of the oldest known burial sites ever discovered is also home to what appears to be evidence of horrific violence committed as far back as 145,000 years ago. As it was chronicled in Scientific Reports, one recently reexamined Homo sapiens…...
You Might Be Left-Handed Because You Didn’t Practice Being Right-Handed Hard Enough, Scientists Say
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (291+ words) Whether you’re left- or right-handed might not have as much to do with biology as it does with how much time and effort you’ve spent using one hand over the other. According to a new study published in the Proceedings…...
Humans May Have Been Using Fire 700,000 Years Earlier Than Scientists Thought, New Study Finds
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (349+ words) Fire is not necessarily one of humanity’s greatest inventions. It was doing a perfectly good job of inventing itself every time lightning hit a dry grassland. But figuring out how to make it and use it whenever we needed was…...
Neanderthal Babies May Have Been More Human Than We Realized, New Study Reveals
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (303+ words) We’ve learned so much about Neanderthals in the past year. We have to be living through some kind of Neanderthal knowledge Golden age. Not sure what breakthroughs started it, but we’re drowning in recent discoveries, like the fact that Neanderthals…...
Ancient Scottish Woman Found Buried With Her Brain Scooped Out And Her Bones Sharpened
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (282+ words) Nearly 20 years ago, researchers found the remains of an Iron Age woman in Scotland. Just recently, scientists using a bevy of new-school technology were able to understand some of the grisly stuff that happened to her after death. Her brain…...
Nearly Everyone, Everywhere, Veers Left When Walking
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (573+ words) Iñaki Echeverría-Huarte, an applied physicist at the University of Navarra in Spain, was studying whether people maintain a certain distance between one another while walking when he noticed something strange. Across some 40 experiments, most of his participants spontaneously veered to…...
Ancient DNA helps identify bones of a lost governor and his family
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (1198+ words) The burial site designated No. 56 included a skull and a jumble of arm and leg bones that had been laid to rest in a wooden box just outside the walls of the old Jesuit chapel in St. Mary’s City, Maryland,…...
Why People Sound Like Instruments, and Instruments Look Like People
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (959+ words) Clap your hands. Tap a foot. Whistle. It doesn’t even have to be a tune. It’s all musical, and it all comes from the human body. The body, in turn, has inspired the shape of instruments for as long as…...
Scientists Finally Figured Out Why 90% of Humans Are Right-Handed
3+ mon, 1+ day ago (286+ words) So naturally, it always made sense to me that around 90 percent of humans are right-handed. What never made sense was why. According to new research published in PLOS Biology, we may have finally figured it out: humans became overwhelmingly right-handed…...