Lava flows tell 600-year story of biodiversity loss on tropical island
Credit: Hervé Douris A natural experiment created by an active volcano gives new insight into the long-term negative impacts of ...
Tag: Anthropology
Human language most likely evolved gradually
Hypotheses for the origin of human languageCredit: Cedric Boeckx (University of Barcelona- ICREA-UBICS) One of the most controversial hypotheses for ...
No clear path for golden rice to reach consumers
Seed choice study reveals flawed assumptions behind hotly debated GMOCredit: Courtesy Glenn Davis Stone, Washington University in St. Louis Heralded ...
Humanity’s greatest risk: Cascading impacts of climate, biodiversity, food, water crises: scientists
Survey reveals common concern of global scientists: interlinkages between crises; Part of Our Future on Earth, 2020, a 50-page synthesis ...
Is human cooperativity an outcome of competition between cultural groups?
Credit: Carla Handley It may not always seem so, but scientists are convinced that humans are unusually cooperative. Unlike other ...
Nature study: First ancient DNA from West Africa illuminates the deep human past
A team of international researchers dug deep to find some of the oldest African DNA on record, in a new ...
Glimpses of fatherhood found in non-pair-bonding chimps
Credit: Aaron Sandel, UT Austin AUSTIN, Texas -- Although they have no way of identifying their biological fathers, male chimpanzees ...
Eating too much — not exercising too little — may be at core of weight gain, study finds
Findings about children's calorie expenditure challenge conventional wisdom and may provide clues for reversing global trends in obesity, Baylor University ...
Scientists reveal the neural basis of confirmation bias
Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC neuroscientists show why it is difficult to re-evaluate past judgmentsCredit: Virginia Tech An international ...
Daylight saving time does not misalign human cycles
Credit: Universidad de Sevilla Professor José María Martín-Olalla, from the University of Seville, has published a new report where the ...
Local traditional knowledge can be as accurate as scientific transect monitoring
New research from a cross-organisational consortium in the Amazon has found indigenous knowledge to be as accurate as scientific transect ...
What can we learn from bonobos and chimpanzees?
A personal account of bonobo and chimpanzee behaviour by a renowned Japanese primatologist explains what and why we should learn ...
Can 3D-printing musical instruments produce better sound than traditional instruments?
Investigators in China created a functioning 3D-printed ukulele and used acoustics to compare its sound quality to a standard wooden ...
National Park Service scientists: Does aircraft noise make birds more vocal?
Human-generated noise can have an effect on birds, even when there's no direct threatCredit: National Park Service SAN DIEGO, December ...
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