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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· 9 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 weeks 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...
Mysterious skull points to a possible new branch on human family tree
Popular Science· 9 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· 2 months agoHumans’ closest primate relatives lost their tails long ago, but exactly how has remained a mystery....
Chimps continue learning tool use even as adults, study finds
Salon via Yahoo News· 6 days agoA chimpanzee (pan troglodytes) uses tools to get fruit from a box Getty Images/Vincent_St_Thomas...
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...
Bones in German cave show humans were in Europe long before previously thought
The Hill via Yahoo News· 4 months agoAncient bones found in a cave in northern Germany prove what scientists have long suspected: Humans...