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A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia...
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Some ancient societies in China and southeast Asia appear to have smoke-dried their dead, effectively mummifying them thousands of years earlier than their Egyptian...
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Humans and macaques are both social animals who have a fundamental need to belong - including violence.
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Scientists analysing 2,000-year-old DNA have revealed that a Celtic society in the southern UK during the Iron Age was centred around women, backing up...
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In a small town high in the Colombian Andes, Clovisnerys Bejarano kneels before a glass box holding the petrified corpse of her mother, who...
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On April 1st, Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, hosted "Celebrating at 90" at the Beacon Theatre in New York City.
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Oetzi, the “iceman” mummy of the Alps, had darker skin than previously thought and was likely bald or almost bald when he died, the...
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Chimpanzees in one part of Guinea crack and eat nuts while others declined to do so even when offered tools.
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Scientists said Wednesday they had discovered the oldest remains of a domestic dog in the Americas dating back more than 10,000 years, suggesting the...
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Leading Bedouin scholar Clinton Bailey has amassed hundreds of hours of recordings about the nomadic society’s poetry, history and legal system, in a career...