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Human Bones Found in Florida Yard Date Back 2,400 Years

When a woman digging in her yard on the Florida Keys last fall turned up a jawbone and part of a human skull, detectives immediately could tell the bones had been there a while -- "possibly as long as 75 years," the sheriff's office said at the time. Now the Monroe County Medical Examiner's office said the results of...

Cannibals and Craftsmen: Ancient Skulls Found in England Were Used as Cups

Ancient human bones found in an English cave not only show signs of cannibalism but also seem to have served another gruesome role: providing the raw material for so-called "skull cups." These skulls-turned-goblets may have been used as vessels for blood, food or potent drinks during rituals performed thousands of years...

Humans May Have Left Africa Earlier Than Thought

WASHINGTON -- Modern humans may have left Africa thousands of years earlier than previously thought, turning right and heading across the Red Sea into Arabia rather than following the Nile to a northern exit, an international team of researchers says. Stone tools discovered in the United Arab Emirates indicate the...

Cretan Tools Point to 130,000-Year-Old Sea Travel

ATHENS, Greece -- Archaeologists on the island of Crete have discovered what may be evidence of one of the world's first sea voyages by human ancestors, the Greek Culture Ministry said Monday. A ministry statement said experts from Greece and the U.S. have found rough axes and other tools thought to be between 130,000 and...

Neanderthals Enjoyed Home-Cooked Meals, Study Finds

Even Neanderthals understood the value of a diverse diet. Researchers have identified strong evidence that the Neanderthal diet, previously thought to be almost exclusively meat-based, also included a nutritious portion of cooked vegetables, according to findings in the upcoming issue of Proceedings of the National...

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Kyle Jarrard: Neanderthals Getting a Colorful Upgrade

A chorus of smart, modern minds is rising over the hills of anthropology that the ancient Neanderthals of Europe weren't anywhere nearly as dumb, insufferable and unrecognizable as everyone thought all these years.

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Megan Smolenyak: Crew Members of the USS Monitor: Solving the Mystery of the Skeletons in the Turret 150 Years Later

Who doesn't love a good history mystery?

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Chimpanzee Culture Demonstrated In Nut-Cracking Technique Study

Like humans who might use a different slang term for "that's cool" or have distinct fashion sense, adjacent chimpanzee groups also show cultural differences, in this case, in their nut-cracking techniques, researchers have found.

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Why Killed Off Big Carnivores? Scientists Offer Surprising New Theory

The impact of Homo sapiens on the environment over the past few hundred years has been so profound that some scientists term this chapter of EarthÃ¢s history the Anthropocene .

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06/02/12 We now have more in common with ants than chimps Source: Globe and Mail "The human population is growing at such a staggering rate that we are organizing ourselves more like ant supercolonies, with new research finding that we have more in common now with some ants than we do with our closest living animal kingdom relatives," writes Jennifer Viegas for Discovery News. "The new study, published in the journal Behavioural Ecology, points out that both humans and ants (termites, too) live in societies that may consist of up to a million-plus members. 'As a result, modern humans have more in common with some ants than we do with our closest relatives the chimpanzees,' Mark Moffett, author of the study, [said] 'With a maximum size of about 100, no chimpanzee group has to deal with issues of public health, infrastructure, distribution of goods and services, market economies, mass transit problems, assembly lines and complex teamwork, agriculture and animal domestication, warfare and slavery. â¦ Ants have developed behaviours addressing all of these problems.
06/02/12 UK Guardian: Only 100 Months Left To Save The World Source: Pirate`s Cove The Guardian has been running a series for a bit called 100 months left to save the world.
06/02/12 How early humans outran the competition Source: The London Free Press - London ON - Canada If we ever think of it, most of us likely consider Neanderthal man as primitive, brutish, more animal than human, who gave way on the evolutionary scale to Cro-Magnon man and early Homo Sapiens . . . us.
06/01/12 5 Signs Humans Are Still Evolving Source: Neatorama In fact, there is evidence that modern humans are evolving faster than ever before, as mutations and natural selection continue to change us.
06/01/12 Wachowskis' Jupiter Ascending Sounds Bats*** Crazy Source: IGN.com As with any original Wachowski film, it can be difficult trying to wrap your head around it until you've actually seen it -- and even then, it can be tricky.

Background on human evolution

While human evolution begins with the last common ancestor of all life, it generally refers to the evolutionary history of primates and in particular the genus Homo, including the emergence of Homo sapiens as a distinct species of hominids ("great apes").

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