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A million-year-old cave uncovers secrets from a world before humans existed
8+ hour, 7+ min ago (344+ words) Trevor Worthy put it bluntly: “It wasn’t a missing chapter in New Zealand’s ancient history, it was an entire volume.” Worthy, with co-author Paul Scofield, senior curator at Canterbury Museum, estimates that between 33% and 50% of the species living during that…...
Swedish Migration Reshaped Medieval Finland???s Genetic Landscape, Study Finds
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (544+ words) A new ancient DNA study reveals that coastal and inland communities in southwestern Finland were genetically similar during the early Middle Ages, before migration from Sweden transformed the coastal population. The research also shows that medieval Finland was deeply connected…...
Modern humans are the evolutionary product of different ancestral populations
7+ hour, 17+ min ago (201+ words) Most recently, an article in the scientific journal Nature (“Who were the Denisovans? Rich trove of fossils and tools paints new picture” Dyani Lewis, September 9, 2026) adds important new knowledge about their culture and geographic distribution. Furthermore, it was discovered that:…...
Dutch men went from averaging about 5 feet 5 inches in the mid-1800s to nearly 6 feet today, gaining almost 8 inches in roughly 150 years, but researchers found natural selection may explain less than 2% of that extraordinary national growth spurt
15+ hour, 48+ min ago (748+ words) Home - Science - Dutch men went from averaging about 5 feet 5 inches in the mid-1800s to nearly 6 feet today, gaining almost 8 inches in roughly 150 years, but researchers found natural selection may explain less than 2% of that extraordinary national growth spurt How does a…...
Did Wildfires Spark the Invention of Pottery?
6+ day, 1+ hour ago (475+ words) Pottery is one of the most important early technological innovations in human history. Combining clay with fire allowed Neolithic people to create water-carrying vessels, cooking pots, storage contain... Pottery is one of the most important early technological innovations in human…...
Why human language may be intertwined with fire
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (669+ words) Understanding how human language evolved is one of the hardest problems in science to unpick By Hannah Little & The Conversation When asked about the greatest innovation of humans, people will often say language or fire. A new paper suggests that…...
Archaeologists Discover 55 Ice Age Artifacts in Oregon Caves Four Times Older Than the Great Pyramid of Egypt
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (390+ words) Buried beneath a layer of volcanic ash more than 15,000 years old, a set of ancient artifacts shouldn't have existed where they were found. One still carried traces of blood from an animal that vanished from the Earth long ago. A…...
Were the Les Rois Teeth Really Neanderthal? New Study Reopens the Mystery
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (551+ words) A new study of a 30,000-year-old mandible from Les Rois Cave places the specimen closer to early Homo sapiens than to Neanderthals. The result changes what the famous teeth can—and cannot—tell us about life in the Aurignacian. Les…...
A IA pré-calculou 9 bilhões de alterações possíveis no DNA humano #62
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (724+ words) O AlphaGenome Atlas transforma um modelo científico em infraestrutura consultável — e muda o gargalo entre cálculo e …...