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Manure was used by European farmers 8000 years ago
A new study has shown that European farmers used far more sophisticated practices than was previously thought. The Oxford research found that Neolithic farmers used manure as a fertilizer as early as...
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Neanderthals developed first bone tools
Modern humans started ‘replacing’ Neanderthals some 40.000 years ago, and for a long time, it was thought this came as a result of the more advanced human intelect and a better ability to adapt; but as...
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Which came first: the dexterous hand or the agile foot?
Shape of the hand and foot in two primate species. The fingers are represented independently (colour coded) in the primate somatosensory cortex (SI). By contrast, the representations of the toes are...
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Scientists find intact, 4,000-year-old human brain boiled inside its own skull
It may not look like much, but this weird looking coal-like thing is actually a 4.000 year old preserved brain, which was “scorched and boiled in its own juices.” Source: Journal of Comparative Human...
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Living Relatives of Ötzi the Iceman Mummy found in Austria
Ötzi the Iceman goes by lots of names – the Similaun Man, the Man from Hauslabjoch, the Hauslabjoch mummy, etc – but most people just call him Ötzi; he’s a well-preserved natural mummy of a man who...
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Early humans responsible for ancient carnivore wipe-out in Africa, not...
Millions of years ago, the wild savannas of Africa were teeming with carnivore wildlife, much more diverse than what we see today: lions, hyenas and other large-bodied carnivores. Paleontologist Lars...
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Skull suggests three hominid species were just one
A new, controversial analysis of a skull suggests that Homo habilis, Homo rudolfensis and Homo erectus were in fact the same species, something which would force scientists rewrite a big page of...
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Monkey-Human ancestor developed music skills 30 million years ago
Music isn’t only restricted to humans – music skills evolved at least 30 million years ago in the common ancestor of humans and monkeys, claims a new study that tries to explain why for example chimps...
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Early humans interbred with Neanderthals, Denisovans, and another, mysterious...
A new genome analysis study suggests that interbreeding between modern humans, Neanderthals, Denisovans and a mysterious archaic population was way more common than previously believed. A Lord of the...
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Stone-Tipped Spears Predate Existence of Humans
Researchers have found obsidian spearheads dated 85.000 years ago before the development of Homo Sapiens (280.000 years ago). This is a very complicated process, requiring numerous steps and lots of...
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Oldest human DNA ever found – 400.000 years old
The recent discovery of DNA of a 400,000-year-old human thigh bone could provide valuable insight into the evolution of humans; researchers explain this is easily the oldest human genetic material ever...
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New evidence suggests Neanderthals organized their living spaces, much like...
As more and more research is conducted on Neanderthals, we start to understand that we’re not as unique as we thought, and that they were equals or even superior in many ways. Now, researchers have...
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Study shows Amazon jungle was dotted with significant towns and perhaps even...
A hundred, fifty, or perhaps even 20 years ago, this idea would have seemed preposterous. Just imagine the Amazonian jungle, riddled with towns and cities – how can this be? Besides, if this was the...
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Ancient skulls discovered in London speak of Roman headhunters
Photo: Guardian Using modern forensic techniques, bioarchaeologists have found that a slew of skulls, discovered a few decades ago in an ancient open pit in nowadays London, not too far from a known...
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Oldest footprints discovered in Europe are 800,000 years old
Area A at Happisburgh: View of footprint surface looking south, also showing underlying horizontally bedded laminated silts. (c) PLOS ONE Right on the English coast, near Happisburgh, scientists...
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Skeleton remains prove first North American settlers came from Asia
The genome sequence of the Ice Age skeletal remains of a 1-year-old boy gave scientists tantalizing proof that the first settlers in North American originated in Asia, and not from Europe as some...
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Google Earth used to track uncontacted Amazonian tribe
An Amazonian isolated village, with natives in the background. Some of them can be seen with their bows readied to shoot the small plane or drone used to take their picture. Photo: Government of Brazil...
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Mysterious lines in Peru that predate the Nazca lines are directions to major...
Rock lines discovered in Peru predate the famous Nazca lines by over 300 years, a new study concludes. However, the purpose of these lines was very different – to direct people to big trading sites and...
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Oldest most complete skeleton found in the New World
In what is quite an exciting study, a mixed team of researchers and cave divers announced the discovery of a near-complete early American human skeleton with an intact cranium and preserved DNA....
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What countries do the most good for the planet? The results are surprising
It’s kind of strange that we often think about what countries are doing the most harm to the planet, but we rarely think which countries are doing the most good. Announced at the TEDSalon in Berlin,...
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