Anthropology

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  1. Anthropology

    Males of this ancient human cousin weren’t always bigger than females

    Molecular evidence from a 2-million-year-old southern African hominid species indicates sex and genetic differences in P. robustus.

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  2. Anthropology

    Humans used whale bones to make tools 20,000 years ago

    Ancient scavengers of the beached beasts turned their bones into implements that spread across a large area, researchers say.

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  3. Animals

    A ‘talking’ ape’s death signals the end of an era

    Kanzi showed apes have the capacity for language, but in recent years scientists have questioned the ethics of ape experiments.

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  4. Animals

    Wild chimpanzees give first aid to each other

    A study in Uganda shows how often chimps use medicinal plants and other forms of health care — and what that says about the roots of human medicine.

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  5. Anthropology

    A lion’s bite marks a fatal fight with a possible Roman-era gladiator

    The first skeletal evidence of a gladiator show or execution involving an exotic animal comes from a Roman British man with bite marks from a lion.

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  6. Humans

    Ancient horse hunts challenge ideas of ‘modern’ human behavior

    An archaeological site in Germany suggests communal hunting and complex thinking emerged earlier in human evolution than once thought.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    A messed-up body clock could be a bigger problem than lack of sleep

    For a good night of sleep, consider getting your circadian rhythm back in sync with the sun. Here’s how to do it.

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  8. Anthropology

    Denisovans inhabited Taiwan, new fossil evidence suggests

    An expanding geographic range for these close Neandertal relatives leaves Denisovans' evolutionary status uncertain.

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  9. Archaeology

    Stone Age hunter-gatherers may have been surprisingly skilled seafarers

    New archaeological finds in Malta add to an emerging theory that early Stone Age humans cruised the open seas.

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