Colorful birds possibly raised for ceremonial and trade purposes long before Spanish arrival
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Top Stories | November 8
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Droughts were actually good times for early humans, helping to develop skills for survival in other parts of the world, Lisa Grossman reports in a blog from the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing's New Horizons in Science meeting.
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Island-dwelling pygmies provide contested evidence that body size shrinks as mortality rates climb.
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Two ancient populations laid the genetic foundation for most people now living in India, a new DNA study suggests.
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Plant fibers excavated at a cave in western Asia suggest that people there made twine more than 30,000 years ago.
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Plant fibers excavated at a cave in western Asia suggest that people there made twine more than 30,000 years ago.A comparison of wrist bones from African apes and monkeys indicates that human ancestors began walking by exploiting the evolutionary legacy of ancient, tree-climbing apes. A new study links the simian immunodeficiency virus to serious AIDS-like illness in a wild population. A chemical analysis of skeletons from Peru’s Andes Mountains suggests that cultivation of key crop made building a prehistoric civilization possible. Japan had been sacrificing a large number of pregnant whales in the name of science. |
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