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Changes in Diet May Have Led to Humans Having Smoother Skulls
23+ hour, 55+ min ago (434+ words) Learn more about human skull shape and how it has changed over millions of years. When a child is born, their brain is only a fraction of the size that it will one day grow to be. As many caretakers…...
3,000 Years of Ancient Diets in Poland Reveal Migration and Early Social Divisions
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (345+ words) Learn how a combination of archaeology and anthropology helped reveal hidden insights into the diet and culture of prehistoric Europeans. What people eat can reveal far more than what they prefer to have on the menu. New research tracing the…...
Neanderthals Mated With Modern Human Women — And It Still Shapes Many People's DNA Today
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (526+ words) Learn how sex-biased interbreeding between Neanderthals and modern humans explains why Neanderthal DNA is largely missing from the X chromosome. When Neanderthals and modern humans met tens of thousands of years ago, they left behind a genetic legacy that most…...
Mosquitoes May Have Been Feeding on Homo erectus 1.8 Million Years Ago
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (459+ words) Learn how mosquito DNA reveals when malaria-carrying species began targeting early hominins in Southeast Asia. Nearly two million years ago, as early members of the genus Homo expanded into Southeast Asia's tropical forests, they encountered a landscape teeming with primates,…...
A Chilling Massacre in Prehistoric Serbia Took the Lives of Women and Children
4+ day, 17+ hour ago (649+ words) Learn about one of the largest massacres in prehistoric Europe, revealing how violence shaped Iron Age conflicts over territory. At a mass grave in Serbia, an assemblage of human remains sheds light on a ruthless Iron Age massacre that spared…...
40,000-Year-Old Stone Age Symbols May Be a Precursor to Written Language
5+ day, 18+ hour ago (538+ words) Learn how researchers analyzed 3,000 Paleolithic symbols to uncover structured information comparable to early writing systems. Geometric marks carved into Paleolithic tools and figurines were not random decoration. A new computational analysis shows that Ice Age humans used these repeated sequences…...
Homo Erectus Could Have Arrived In Asia 600,000 Years Earlier Than Previously Thought
1+ week, 3+ day ago (406+ words) Learn more about the methods a research team used to date ancient fossils and sediment, revealing they were much older than previously believed. A new analysis could reshape the timeline of early human dispersal. An interdepartmental and international research team…...
Only Humans Have Chins — and They Emerged as an Evolutionary Accident
2+ week, 2+ day ago (440+ words) Learn how the chin became an evolutionary byproduct that's unique to humans. Most components of the human body have been driven by natural selection to ensure our species" survival " the chin, though, is not one of them. Chins are uniquely…...
A Prehistoric Bear Attack Ended in the Gruesome Death of a Teenage Boy Around 27,000 Years Ago
2+ week, 3+ day ago (609+ words) Learn about the bear attack that may have killed "Il Principe," a prehistoric teenager whose skeleton was found in a lavish burial site. Being attacked by a bear often ends in tragedy, and this is certainly no exception for prehistoric…...
3,500-Year-Old Ancient Fragrances Reveal What Egyptian Mummification Smelled Like
3+ week, 2+ day ago (608+ words) Learn how traces on Egyptian mummification jars were used to make perfume, bringing ancient fragrances and societies back to life. For their project Scent of the Afterlife, they developed a way to convert biochemical traces sampled from embalming jars of…...