Humanity

Ubang: The Nigerian village where men and women speak different languages

<b>In Ubang, a farming community in southern Nigeria, men and women say they speak different languages. They view this unique difference as "a blessing from God", but as more young people leave for greener pastures and the English language becomes more popular, there are concerns it won't survive,</b> …

Everybody’s equal in this 5,000-year-old African cemetery

Research has found the earliest and largest monumental cemetery in eastern Africa, which early pastoralists living around Lake Turkana in Kenya built …

Scientists Stunned By a Neanderthal Hybrid Discovered in a Siberian Cave

The extraordinary find is rewriting the story of archaic and modern humans.

First Ancient Human Hybrid Offspring Discovered

One can be forgiven for thinking that the first modern humans who ventured out of Africa stumbled into a vibrant bar scene. DNA from just a single …

ACK! This Memory Quiz Will Mess With Your Mind

Are you ready for this? If you love an addictive quiz, you'll want to try this memory test created by Playbuzz user Kate Walker. While we like to think we can recall just about any significant event or person, sometimes we can just be completely wrong. The quiz shows you two photos before asking a …

Meet the first known child of a Neandertal and a Denisovan

Talk about blended families. A 13-year-old girl who died about 50,000 years ago was the child of a Neandertal and a Denisovan.Researchers already …

'Bag of bones' found in op shop are human, say police

A bag of bones uncovered in a Melbourne second-hand shop had been used by the medical profession as a learning tool in the 1980s, police say.

'Lazy' people like me are crucial to human evolution, and society should show us some respect

<b>Are we not all tired of articles in which a CEO claims to rise at 5am?</b><p>I have often thought the most telling moment on Desert Island Discs is when the castaway chooses their luxury item.<p>Many follow the “devil finds work for idle hands” school of thought, asking for pens and paper (Ralph Fiennes), …

Ancient Turtle Fossil Deepens Mystery of Reptile's Origins

A fossilized turtle discovered in southwestern China fills an evolutionary hole in how the reptiles developed features such as a beak and shell, …

Booze and Culture: Tailgating at Beaver Stadium

Football Tailgating season is nearly upon us. While many fans will be packing their coolers full of adult beverages and firing up their grills, one …

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Consumers fear tech will fuel loneliness even as they embrace it

You have to build the future you want to live in.<p>Genevieve Bell

Laziness May Have Doomed This Human Ancestor

We've all had that friend who just can't seem to get it together. A friend like this is just bad at taking care of themselves: They loaf around on …

Catholic primate of Ireland: Abuse scandals cause people not to trust Church's message

DUBLIN — In an opening address for the Vatican-organized major summit on the family, Archbishop Eamon Martin confronted head-on many of the most …

Salisbury anthropology student from Havre de Grace replicates Iron Age artifacts with 3-D printing

This story is courtesy of Salisbury University.Inside the Archaeology Lab on the fourth floor of Salisbury University’s Patricia R. Guerrieri …

Mum’s a Neanderthal, Dad’s a Denisovan: First discovery of an ancient-human hybrid

Genetic analysis uncovers a direct descendant of two different groups of early humans.<p>A female who died around 90,000 years ago was half Neanderthal …

Beautiful face of a tribe wiped out by Spanish conquistadors: Scientist reconstructs the features of an indigenous Canary Islander who died 600 years ago

The face of an indigenous Canary Islander who lived more than 600 years ago has been recreated using forensic techniques and 3D scanning.<p>Guanche …

Their World Was Crumbling But These Ancient People Built a Lasting Memorial

For modern people, the Great Pyramid of Giza, Stonehenge, Machu Picchu and other ancient monuments are awe-inspiring backdrops for selfies. But they …

'Survival of the sluggish': Laziness could be good for human evolution, scientists suggest

Spending all day lazing around on the could be good for human evolution, scientists have suggested.<p>A study has uncovered a previously overlooked law of natural selection based on "survival of the slacker".<p>It suggests that laziness can be a good strategy for ensuring the survival of individuals, …

How brains of doers differ from those of procrastinators: Procrastination is the thief of time. Not everyone finds this fact deterring. Two different brain areas might be the reason for this

Procrastination is the thief of time. Not everyone finds this fact deterring. Two different brain areas might be the reason for this<p>Researchers have …

Combining disciplines to better understand the population in medieval Trondheim, Norway

The emerging picture is one of a heterogenous population, diverse in most respects, and with clear similarities to modern day urban populations.

The genome of the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father

1.<p>Meyer, M. et al. Nuclear DNA sequences from the Middle Pleistocene Sima de los Huesos hominins. <i>Nature</i> <b>531</b>, 504–507 (2016).<p>2.<p>Prüfer, K. et al. A …

Facebook, NYU working to make MRI scans 10 times faster

Facebook and the New York University School of Medicine launched a research project using artificial intelligence to improve the speed of MRI scans.

Treasure Trove of Fossil Human Footprints Is Vanishing

The ancient tracks in Tanzania have stood the test of time, but they won't last if left exposed to the elements.<p>In the shadow of a volcano in …

How the House Sparrow Conquered the World Is Encoded in Its Genes

This week, at a New York City park, a House Sparrow vigorously assaulted a pizza crust twice the length of its body. The three-inch bird didn’t get …

Cider trees: Researchers tap into Indigenous fermentation processes

There is no doubt that Europeans brought a culture of brewing and consuming alcohol during their early migration and colonisation of Australia.<p>But …

Four Canadian soldiers killed during WWI to be buried in France

Four Canadian soldiers killed in the First World War will finally be laid to rest on Thursday in northern France, a century after their deaths, local …

Anthropological Architecture

We don’t often stop and consider the elements, material and otherwise, that makeup architecture and urban spaces. Often, we think of them as simply …

A New Study On Stalagmites Reveals The Earth’s Magnetic Polarity Can Shift In Just A Century And A Half

A team of international scientists have studied stalagmites from Sanxing Cave in China, and after analyzing these learned that the Earth's magnetic …

R.I.P. The VMAs

Yikes<p>The MTV Video Music Awards have long been <i>the</i> place where controversial performances, celebrity crossover drama, and general messiness come together for one glorious, gawk-inducing night. However, for a show that has propelled everyone from Kanye West to Miley Cyrus into pop culture infamy, …