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Some Neanderthals couldn't smell their own stink, suggests a new study recreating early humans'...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 1 year agoNew research suggests Neanderthals couldn't smell some things quite as well as humans.©Neanderthal...
Why are humans good long distance runners?
Live Science via Yahoo News· 10 months agoWhat is it about humans' bodies and physiology that helps us run long distances? Death Valley's Badwater 135 is said to be the world's most extreme...
Chimps – like humans – may be lifelong learners, researchers say
PA Media: Science via Yahoo News· 2 months agoChimpanzees, like humans, may be life-long learners, a study suggests. Researchers have found these...
Nobel Prize in medicine goes to 'unusual' candidate who discovered that modern humans and...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSwedish paleogenetics pioneer Svante Pääbo stands with a replica of a Neanderthal skeleton at the...
Why did Homo sapiens emerge in Africa?
Live Science· 1 month agoBird's eye view of people walking on a map of the world. Every person on Earth today can trace their ancestry to Africa, where modern humans (Homo...
Mysterious skull points to a possible new branch on human family tree
Popular Science· 10 months agoSome newly discovered specimens could shake up the timeline of hominid evolution. A 300,000 year-old...
6 'facts' about human evolution that are wrong
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA scientific theory is an explanation of facts based on robust research that's been replicated numerous times.Peter Macdiarmid / Staff / Getty Images...
Why don’t humans have tails? Scientists find answers in an unlikely place
CNN via Yahoo News· 3 months agoHumans’ closest primate relatives lost their tails long ago, but exactly how has remained a mystery....
Fossil teeth reveal how brains developed in utero over millions of years of human evolution – new...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAny hominid fossil find with molar teeth can be plugged into a new equation that reveals its...
Chimps continue learning tool use even as adults, study finds
Salon via Yahoo News· 1 month agoA chimpanzee (pan troglodytes) uses tools to get fruit from a box Getty Images/Vincent_St_Thomas...
