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Human Evolution
This is your brain on work.
Archaeologists turn to other scientific fields to fill in the picture of how victims lived and why they died.
Only humans can voluntarily conjure new objects and events in our minds.
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We are ~99% genetically identical to chimpanzees. But there are three key traits that separate us.
Human thinking is antiquated.
A wide-scale examination of early Neolithic human skeletons reveals the violent history of a supposedly peaceful period.
Video games matter. Their continued technological and artistic development is reshaping the way we satisfy our ancient need to tell stories.
Ancient humans crossed the Bering Strait land bridge from Asia into North America. But some of them went back.
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Humans are musical animals four million years in the making, explained by music expert Michael Spitzer.
Some objects were softer than others.
In the early 20th century, a young biochemist named Alexander Oparin set out to connect “the world of the living” to “the world of the dead.”
We are still new at this.
2022 was another busy year in the realm of science, with groundbreaking stories spanning space, materials, medicine, and technology.
Virtually all the statistical methods researchers commonly use assume potential mating partners decide who they will have children with based on a roll of the dice.
The genes responsible for facial features may also influence behavior.
Ancient humans may have evolved to slumber efficiently — and in a crowd.
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Harvard professor Daniel Lieberman debunks the ‘10,000 steps per day’ myth.
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He lived with a tribe of hunter-gatherers to witness how an ancient culture survives one of the most brutal climates on Earth. His learnings may surprise you.
About 8% of our genome is made of leftover viruses from our ancestors' infections.
Who's for dinner?
Cooperation was the first technology.
An increase in genetic regulatory elements explains how modern humans evolved bigger brains than other hominins.
We got lucky with our evolutionary history.
Tracing the origin and development of jaws — and other anatomical features that humans share — sheds some light on how we came to be.
The same brain differences that contribute to left-handedness also contribute to psychotic disorders. But there's a bright side.
There were many other species of human on the planet. Svante Pääbo discovered one of them.
The researchers and patients are excited to see if color vision will develop over time.
From politics to culture, we blame “tribalism” for humanity’s problems. This explanation is entirely wrong.
John Templeton Foundation