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Why are 90% humans right-handed? Scientists finally find a fascinating answerScientists have uncovered a new theory for why most humans are right-handed. A major study suggests upright walking and a rapidly expanding...
What the X chromosome revealed about Neanderthals and early humansNew genetic research reveals ancient human and Neanderthal interactions followed a surprising pattern. Scientists found more modern human D...
Neanderthal babies may have grown at surprisingly rapid speeds compared with modern humansScientists unearthed a Neanderthal infant, Amud 7, in Israel. Its bones and brain were larger than expected for its age. This suggests Nean...
Neanderthals’ meat-only diet should have killed them; scientists finally reveal how maggot menu kept them aliveNew research suggests Neanderthals may have supplemented their meat-heavy diets with maggots and fermented animal foods. Chemical signature...
Where did our ancestors end up after migrating from Africa? New study has some cluesHomo sapiens was not the first human species to live outside of Africa - including the area encompassing the hub. Ancient interbreeding by ...
Ancient bones in German cave challenge timeline of Homo sapiens' arrival in EuropeBone fragments discovered in Ilsenhohle cave in central Germany have rewritten the early history of Homo sapiens in Europe. The findings, d...
300,000-year-old 'giant stone tools' discovered in KentA senior geo-archaeologist at the UCL Institute of Archaeology named Letty Ingrey describes the tools as ‘giants’ when they are anywhere ab...
Dawn of Greek archaeology: Researchers find stone tools dating back to 700,000 yearsResearchers have discovered Greece's oldest archaeological site, dating back to 700,000 years ago, containing rough stone tools from the Lo...
Neanderthals, humans co-existed in Europe for over 2,000 years: studyResearch by Swedish paleogeneticist Svante Paabo, who won the medicine Nobel prize last week, helped reveal that people of European descent...
Snap Out of Our Neanderthalism!Orientalism — stereotyping cultures, histories and peoples through a colonial, and later, First World media, prism — is something that plag...
Homo who? A new mystery human species has been discovered in IsraelAs researchers Israel Hershkovitz, Yossi Zaidner and colleagues detail in two companion studies published in Science, this archaic human co...
- Modern humans' expressive eyebrows boosted social networks: Study
London, April 10 (IANS) Highly mobile eyebrows that can be used to express a wide range of subtle emotions helped modern humans in establis...
- Neanderthals were first known artists on Earth: Study
London, Feb 23 (IANS) It's not modern humans but Neanderthals who were the first known artists on Earth, say scientists who found evidence ...
- Researchers find human evolution to be uneven, punctuated
London, Nov 18 (IANS) Researchers have found Neanderthals survived at least 3,000 years longer in the Southern Iberia region, modern day Sp...
Festival import-export: Happy happeningsObama lighting a lamp with his in the Oval Office and the UN building emblazoned with a diya and ‘Happy Diwali’, it seems festival exports ...
World Heritage List: Other sites that made the cutMostly abandoned after a devastating earthquake in the 14th century, the ruins in Ani include a relatively well-preserved cathedral and hol...
Ancient human ancestor likely survived through Ice AgeAn ancient species of human thought to be long extinct may have survived until as recently as the end of the last Ice Age, a 14,000 year-ol...