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New research finds early humans first used fire over one million years ago
1+ week, 1+ day ago (1146+ words) The Wonderwerk Cave entrance. Burned fossil bones in Wonderwerk Cave suggest early humans used fire there between 1. 07 and 1. 79 million years ago. (CREDIT: The Wonderwerk Cave Project) Fire leaves behind a simple story when it is fresh. Ash settles, bones blacken,…...
Researchers find a surprising human bias toward counterclockwise motion
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1154+ words) People in Spain and Japan showed the same counterclockwise turning bias, pointing to a possible built-in feature of human movement. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4. 0) A crowd does not need a leader to fall into step. In public spaces, people sort…...
Neanderthals practiced dental care 59, 000 years ago
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (981+ words) A Siberian Neanderthal molar may preserve the oldest known evidence of dental treatment, dating back 59, 000 years. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4. 0) A deep cavity in a single Neanderthal molar from Siberia looks less like random damage and more like a deliberate…...
Human brains decreased in size 3, 000 years ago - here's why
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1127+ words) Human brains may have shrunk about 3, 000 years ago as collective intelligence grew, researchers suggest. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4. 0) For most of human evolution, the story of the brain seemed to move in one direction. It got bigger. That long rise…...
The strange reason nearly all humans are right-handed
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (964+ words) Roughly nine out of 10 people favor their right hand, a pattern so common it can feel almost invisible. Yet in evolutionary terms, it is deeply strange. No other primate species comes close to showing such a strong, consistent population-wide bias....
New DNA study reveals Beachy Head Woman was local to Roman Britain
4+ mon, 4+ week ago (18+ words) Advanced DNA analysis shows the Beachy Head Woman descended from local Roman-era Britons, overturning earlier ancestry claims....
40, 000-year-old Paleolithic carvings may be the precursor to human writing
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (652+ words) Ice Age carvings of dots and crosses show information patterns that match early proto-cuneiform, a new PNAS study finds. (CREDIT: AI-generated image / The Brighter Side of News) A new computational analysis argues otherwise. Linguist Christian Bentz of Saarland University and…...
Neanderthal males preferred human females, genetic study finds
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Iron Age mass grave reveals targeted violence against women and children
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1. 9 million-year-old finding points to the earliest evidence of humans outside of Africa
4+ mon, 5+ day ago (873+ words) Researcher at the site of "Ubeidiya. It lies three km south of the Sea of Galilee (Lake Kinneret) on what is today the flanks of the western escarpment of the Jordan Valley. (CREDIT: University of Tulsa) When a stone sits…...