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Homo floresiensis is only represented in the fossil record through a few fossilized remains, but they are enough to earn the small creature the rank of human species. A new study has recently concluded that the creature, which was jokingly dubbed the “hobbit,” was an actual human species, and not just a d... |
19 November 2009
09:20 GMT |
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In a recent set of studies, investigators have finally found one of the most important genes in our bodies, the one that determines our ability to formulate and understand speech. The gene, called FOXP2, can be found in all humans, but lacks in chimpanzees, other primates and big apes. It is a transcription factor, w... |
12 November 2009
04:58 GMT |
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According to current knowledge, our ancestors first appeared in eastern Africa, where the oldest, human-like fossils were found. They are believed to have then left the continent in successive migrations, eventually spreading across the planet and beginning their domination of the world. However, historians and paleo... |
10 November 2009
04:57 GMT |
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A newly discovered hominid fossil, found in Ethiopia, Africa, demonstrates that humans did not evolve from knuckle-walking chimpanzees, as anthropologists widely believe. Apparently, our species evolved along a separate lineage from a common ancestor that we shared with a species of great apes that has long since bee... |
2 October 2009
04:36 GMT |
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Over recent years, considerable advancements in the field of robotics have brought forth a new wave of development in what some experts call “Humans 2.0.” Paraphrasing the type of Web content that is now a part of mainstream culture, they believe that, in a few years to a couple of decades, we could have ... |
3 August 2009
01:56 GMT |
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Scientists from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), and the University of Aberdeen, in the United Kingdom, have recently published a new study, arguing that human language and dolphin behavior have similar traits, as far as brevity goes. They set off in their line of reasoning from the law of brevity in hu... |
31 July 2009
13:31 GMT |
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Chimpanzees have over the years been associated and compared with humans both in terms of appearance and mental prowess, but a growing sentiment among academics has it that the primates will never be able to actually invent things. This trait, which involves high abstractionism skills and planning ahead, seems to be ... |
22 July 2009
19:11 GMT |
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Talk about world domination! We, humans, live under the impression that we are the most widespread and numerous species on the planet, when the reality couldn't be much further from this “truth,” as evidenced recently by a groundbreaking discovery. It would appear that the three mega colonies of Arge... |
1 July 2009
15:01 GMT |
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New studies on whales' behavior have come to a rather surprising conclusion – these marine animals may be as intelligent as apes are, or maybe even more. Anthropologists believe that the whales developed intelligence millions of years before the last ancestor of primates and humans did. For this reason, so... |
26 June 2009
02:58 GMT |
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The latest issue of the Journal of Biogeography holds one of the most interesting hypotheses of this year – namely the theory that humans are not as much related to chimpanzees as previously stated, but rather to orangutans. The new paper, written by scientists at the University of Pittsburgh and the Buffalo Mu... |
18 June 2009
16:01 GMT |
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The original inhabitants of the Americas may have very well descended from a single ancestor, or from more, partisans of two anthropological theories say. The debate on the issue has been raging on in academic circles for many years, but now newly discovered human skulls, found in Argentina, may finally bring this he... |
4 June 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Humans have been until recently the only known species that did not seek to maximize its daily energy intake from foods, but rather planned its diet over a longer time-frame. However, a new ecological study conducted in the Bolivian rainforest has proven that wild spider monkeys do the exact same thing, planning thei... |
20 May 2009
19:51 GMT |
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A fossil discovered in Germany has the potential to change the way we look at our own evolutionary pattern, its discoverers say. The 47-million-year-old “missing link” is about 20 times older than any of the other preserved remains of our ancestors, and it's also 95 percent complete, which means that... |
20 May 2009
03:08 GMT |
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A breakthrough study by psychologists at the University of Haifa has revealed that adversities suffered by mother rats have significant consequences on their offspring's behavior, later on in life. The researchers clarified that the adversity did not affect the pregnancy directly, but possibly through other unde... |
12 May 2009
10:55 GMT |
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Psychologists and evolutionary biologists are currently engaged in endless debates on whether stories are a byproduct of humans' highly social behavior, or if the pieces of literature are what triggered this type of behavior in the first place. Small children listening to bedtime stories grow up identifying them... |
16 April 2009
04:16 GMT |
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Anthropologists and archaeologists have been scouting early human dig sites around the world for clues as to when the change from the primate-like state to a biped humanoid happened. They know that, in the grand scheme of things, ancient humans gave up their ability to use all of their four limbs to climb trees, in f... |
14 April 2009
06:58 GMT |
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The concept of “continuous evolution,” which more and more anthropologists are beginning to rally behind, states that the current stage of our species, Homo sapiens, will not remain the same in the distant future. That is to say, our genes will evolve in such a manner over the next centuries, that a new t... |
14 April 2009
04:53 GMT |
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Experts know that the females of most species of mammals, including humans, stop producing eggs, known as oocytes, soon before birth, and that the number of eggs they are born with is the number they will have for the rest of their lives. Challenging this knowledge, researchers in China have recently announced that t... |
13 April 2009
03:43 GMT |
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The world has been fascinated with the existence of little green (or gray) men ever since the idea of extraterrestrial life first caught the eyes and ears of the public. Fed by more or less real events, such as UFO sightings, abductions, and inexplicable phenomena such as crop circles, people's fantasies of alie... |
8 April 2009
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Some inventors are notoriously focused more on their robots than they are on those around them, including children and family. What it is about the mechanical creatures that has them so fascinated is easily understandable, seeing how the future of mankind is clear – a world filled with robots and cyborgs to do ... |
7 April 2009
19:01 GMT |
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New scientific research pushes back the date of the first recorded human uses of horses more than 1,000 years. University of Exeter scientist Alan Outram and his team have found in Kazakhstan evidences that the native Botai culture had been using horses as beasts of burden and sources of milk and food for at least 5,... |
6 March 2009
03:37 GMT |
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The human history is full of coincidences and fortunate events, which in the end have had the result of differentiating us from the rest of the species roaming the Earth with our ancestors some 4 million years ago, when a weird kind of primates descended from the trees and started behaving strange for that time. This... |
12 February 2009
09:52 GMT |
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It's common knowledge that mammals, unlike for example reptiles, have warm blood and generate heat inside their bodies at all times. For many years, researchers in the field of evolution have been trying to decipher the mystery of this difference, and especially how warm-blooded creatures came to be in the first... |
5 February 2009
13:01 GMT |
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A fifteen-year-old boy from Boston is the main driving force behind a new bill that proposes the banning of the medical practice known as “debarking,” which is just an euphemism for surgically removing a dog's or cat's vocal cords, for the ridiculous reason that they are a nuisance to people aro... |
4 February 2009
09:41 GMT |
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A group of amoeba-shaped creatures called Placozoans has recently “dethroned” sea sponges from their position as the closest living creatures to Earth's original animals, the base of the evolutionary tree line, the point of origin for every other animal species that came after it. A new analysis show... |
27 January 2009
06:59 GMT |
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This year's Olympic Games saw a number of world records go up in flames, including those for 100 and 200 meter sprints, both knocked down by Usain Bolt. This made Mark Denny, a researcher at Stanford University, wonder how much more humans could gain in speed over the years. He was curious especially about wheth... |
28 November 2008
14:21 GMT |
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A recent discovery indicates that early humans have first known the principles of fire-making 790 millennia ago, when mastering this skill allowed them protection against wild animals, and also ensured light and warmth in their sturdy hearths. This superiority made them boldly explore and expand the territorial domin... |
27 October 2008
07:44 GMT |
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The oldest human footprints discovered to date have been confirmed to be those excavated on top of the Roccamonfina volcano in Italy in 2003. The reason it took so long to confirm them is that the teams responsible for establishing their age had to use a dating process known as argon-argon dating, where two types of ... |
14 October 2008
05:19 GMT |
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The number of people who address the matter of whether we're good or bad as a race increases by the day, especially in later times, when issues such as global warming, resource depletion, pollution, urbanization or wars are believed to eventually threaten the planet's equilibrium up to some point.Of course,... |
2 October 2008
11:07 GMT |
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Unlike humans, who have to pay the price for drinking too much in the evening the next morning, pen-tailed tree shrews and a few species of other animals that consume small to large amounts of alcoholic nectar on a regular basis do not feel the effects of their habit. This is because these species have evolved to a s... |
29 July 2008
02:53 GMT |
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If you want to inspect an object thoroughly, hold it in your hands - that should keep you occupied for a while. Psychologists at the Washington University who have recently showed that an object within the grasp of our hands is much closer investigated than an object in the distance, affecting our perception and the ... |
14 July 2008
06:28 GMT |
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Shoes do a lot more than simply protect our feet, but most of the time we don't realize the physical changes they inflict. For example, wearing shoes can change the way a human walks and how the weight of the body is being distributed on the feet. In modern humans, who basically can't live without shoes, th... |
6 June 2008
08:16 GMT |
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These unbelievable pictures taken from an airplane flying over the rainforest separating Brazil from Peru show the members of what is considered to be one of the last uncontacted tribes on Earth. Painted in red, two men with their heads partially shaved stand ready to attack with longbows the unknown object passing a... |
30 May 2008
06:28 GMT |
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Morning sickness could be rather annoying for most pregnant women, but it may in fact have the role of protecting the embryo. According to doctors, morning sickness is the sign of a healthy pregnancy, although it's not yet known if it leads to a successful one or not. Alternatively, it could be the effect of the... |
19 May 2008
03:43 GMT |
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When it comes to robots, so far, Asia rules. They're a few generations over competitors in the field and every day, they keep coming with new and impressive creations. Sony's AIBO was the first robot dog to recognize words and objects and Honda's ASIMO is the first humanoid robot that can walk on two ... |
30 July 2007
10:49 GMT |
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Robots have been part of human imagination for longer than you think. Though the modern science-fiction literary genre has made them so famous that they've become universal brands, like "Robocop", "Terminator", "Data", "R2-D2" or "iRobot", they have been present in mythology long before.You have probably seen, ... |
20 June 2007
12:15 GMT |
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Robots are already growing in complexity and their use in industry is becoming more widespread. The main use of robots has so far been in the automation applications of mass production industries, where the same definable tasks must be performed repeatedly in exactly the same fashion. Car production is the primary e... |
26 April 2007
10:05 GMT |
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Use destructive weapons and innate mental powers to take on the most feared enemy in the galaxy-mankind! Play as Crypto, an alien warrior sent to Earth to clear the way for the Furon invasion force. Your mission is to infiltrate humanity, control them, harvest their brain stems, and ultimately destroy them. You choos... |
23 March 2007
03:48 GMT |
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