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'Intelligence comes at a price, and for many species, the benefits just aren't worth it': A neuroscientist's take on how human intellect evolved
In his book "One Hand Clapping," Nikolay Kukushkin explores explanations for how consciousness evolved, and ultimately, what ...
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These Monkeys Learned to Tap to the Beat of the Backstreet Boys. Can They Teach Researchers About the Origins of Human Musicality?
Two macaques learned to keep time with various songs, which might point to how humans got their sense of rhythm. But some ...
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The Human Relative Who Owned This 3.4-Million-Year-Old Foot May Have Belonged to a Species That Lived Alongside Lucy
In 2009, scientists unearthed fossilized fragments of a 3.4-million-year-old foot in what’s now Ethiopia. They were found ...
Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...
A mega-catalog of 1,231 fossils reveals that Homo was never a rare species in Omo-Turkana and rewrites the history of our ...
On November 24, 1859, Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species and transformed our understanding of life on Earth by ...
A research team led by Professor Luo Shujin from the School of Life Sciences has uncovered a surprising chapter in the ...
The question of consciousness has puzzled scientists for decades, but new research suggests the answer lies not in what consciousness is, but rather in what purpose it serves. According to Professors ...
New research in the Journal of Human Evolution suggests that the ancient ‘Lazarus’ primate was North America's last until ...
Archaeological research once again dispells the widespread belief that our Paleolithic ancestors were primarily meat-eaters, ...
A Europe-focused study published in the journal Science examined 87 ancient and modern cat genomes and found that the domestic cat, which has the scientific name Felis catus, originated in North ...
Researchers reviewed a number of studies pointing to the early use of plant foods by prehistoric humans and discovered that ...
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