. Scientific Frontline: Anthropology
Showing posts with label Anthropology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anthropology. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 18, 2023

The encounter between Neanderthals and Sapiens as told by their genomes

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analysed the distribution of the portion of DNA inherited from Neanderthals in the genomes of humans (Homo sapiens) over the last 40,000 yea...
Monday, October 2, 2023

Climate and human land use both play roles in Pacific island wildfires past and present

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SMU fire scientist Christopher Roos Photo Credit: Courtesy of  Southern Methodist University It’s long been understood that human settlement...
Friday, September 29, 2023

New study shows signs of early creation of modern human identities

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SapienCE researchers have publiched a new study which provides vital information about how and when we may have started developing modern hu...
Thursday, September 28, 2023

Hunting anything that flies

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Pillar from Göbekli Tepe depicting a vulture with its wings spread.  Photo Credit: © Nadja Pöllath / SNSB-SPM Birds were an important source...
Wednesday, June 14, 2023

New insights into the origin of food sharing among humans

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Chimpanzees Gremlin and son Grendel, begging for food, at Gombe National Park, Tanzania. Photo Credit: Courtesy of University of Minnesota A...
Wednesday, June 7, 2023

Romantic Love in Humans May Have Evolved From Same-Sex Friendship

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Two adolescent male chimpanzees, Barron, 15, and PeeWee, 9, grooming. Photo Credit: Aaron Sandel. Romantic heterosexual relationships in hum...
Wednesday, May 17, 2023

New Model for Human Evolution Suggests Homo Sapiens Arose from Multiple Closely Related Populations

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View of the village of Kuboes, on the border of South Africa and Namibia. DNA samples were collected from Nama individuals who have historic...
Thursday, April 13, 2023

Apes may have evolved upright stature for leaves, not fruit, in open woodland habitats

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Artistic rendering of the open woodland habitat reconstruction at Moroto II with Morotopithecus bishopi vertically climbing with infant on b...
Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Ancient DNA reveals entwined African and Asian ancestry along the Swahili coast of eastern Africa

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Rice researchers Mary Prendergast and Jeffrey Fleisher. Photo Credit: Brandon Martin. A new genetic study of medieval people who lived along...
Thursday, March 2, 2023

23,000-year-old human genome from southern Spain decoded

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Human tooth recovered Cueva de Malalmuerzo Photo Credit: Pedro Cantalejo A new study reports on genomic data from a 23,000-year-old individu...
Wednesday, February 22, 2023

New Study Shows Archery Appeared in Europe Thousands of Years Earlier than Previously Thought

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Laure Metz making experimental bow and arrow shots with arrows armed with Neronian light points.  Photo Credit: Ludovic Slimak The use of bo...
Monday, January 16, 2023

Early humans: Annual cycles in tooth enamel provide insights into life histories

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Jülide Kubat and Wolfgang Müller load the LA-ICPMS with a thin section of tooth for analysis. Photo Credit: Jülide Kubat An interdisciplinar...
Friday, January 6, 2023

New study suggests Mayas utilized market-based economics

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Obsidian collections from the site of Q'umarkaj and the surrounding region. Photo Credit: Rachel Horowitz More than 500 years ago in the...
Thursday, December 15, 2022

Early humans may have first walked upright in the trees

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Photo Credit: Alexa Human bipedalism – walking upright on two legs – may have evolved in trees, and not on the ground as previously thought,...
Wednesday, December 7, 2022

Jawbone may represent earliest presence of humans in Europe

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For over a century, one of the earliest human fossils ever discovered in Spain has been long considered a Neandertal. However, new analysis ...
Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Genes and Languages

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Schematic illustration of possible scenarios of matches and mismatches in the transmission of genes and languages. Genetic (demographic) his...
Thursday, November 10, 2022

Study provides first snapshot of global experiences with water insecurity

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A new study by Northwestern anthropologists reveals the life-altering problems with water that have long gone hidden.  Photo Credit: Charles...
Tuesday, August 30, 2022

How Prehistoric Humans Simplified the World’s Food Webs

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Illustration depicting all mammal species that would inhabit Southern California today if not for human-linked extinction. Extinct species a...
Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Study of Ancient Skulls Sheds Light on Human Interbreeding With Neandertals

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Homo neanderthalensis adult male. Reconstruction based on Shanidar 1 by John Gurche for the Human Origins Program, NMNH. Photo Credit: Chip ...
Friday, July 29, 2022

The brains of Neanderthals developed differently from those of modern humans

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Fewer chromosome segregation errors in modern human than Neanderthal neural stem cells. Left side: microscopy image of the chromosomes (in c...