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Given the remarkable similarity of baby talk across many different cultures, I wonder if they are any similarities with other primate species.

Baby talk is similar all over the world Research suggests that parents and babies communicate in remarkably similar ways despite striking variation in cultural practices.

A new species of hominin hobbits?

An Ancient Human Species Is Discovered in a Philippine Cave Archaeologists in Luzon Island have turned up the bones of a distantly related species, Homo luzonensis, further expanding the human family tree.

Political structures are an evolutionary adaptation?

How Did Humans Get So Good at Politics? We often make friends today who turn into foes tomorrow. It’s all part of the way we’ve evolved as cooperative and competitive animals.

Apparently, sharing and generosity that functions to mitigate individual economic crises is basic human behavior.

Is a More Generous Society Possible? Generosity helps communities manage risk and cope with disasters. New research untangles the factors that lead people to help neighbors in need.

Cats always do whatever want they want. Why didn't that change in domestication?

Ancient Ancestor of Domestic Cat Chose Us, Not the Other Way Around The Near Eastern wildcat is the ancestor of all house cats, and still lives in …

I wonder if Neanderthal backs got sore too like ours?

Neanderthals Had Fully Upright Posture: Study | Anthropology, Paleoanthropology | Sci-News.com 19th and early 20th century postural reconstructions of Neanderthals, and particularly the extensive one of the partial skeleton of an elderly male Neanderthal from the site of La Chapelle-aux-Saints in France, created persistent images of these archaic humans as primitive and incompletely erect. No...

How do you define the difference between related species from just genetic variation when all you have is the DNA?

Artificial Intelligence Finds Ancient ‘Ghosts’ in Modern DNA | Quanta Magazine With the help of deep learning techniques, paleoanthropologists find evidence of long-lost branches on the human family tree.

Some early hominin males may have been significantly larger than females. Wonder what that may mean?

Meet Chewie, the biggest Australopithecus on record Tallest specimen deduced from 3.7-million-year-old footprints in Tanzania.

This suggests that social cooperation, a chimp and human trait, was selected for in our common ancestor?

Active participation in group-hunts earns wild chimpanzees meat access Wild chimpanzees of the Taï National Park, Ivory Coast, hunt in groups to catch monkeys. By observing group-hunts and meat sharing, an international team of researchers found that chimpanzee hunting behavior is a cooperative act that earns participants a fair share of the prey.

Happy Valentine's Day! Kissing is different....

The Half of the World That Doesn’t Make Out - SAPIENS Surprisingly few societies have romantic kissing in their repertoire.

Apparently, the creationism vs evolution debate is less of a debate when you ask the question differently with less binary options.

How Many Creationists Are There in America? A new survey shows the number can vary considerably depending how you ask questions about evolution

Human culture impacting human biology. C-sections may be impacting our evolutionary changes.

A New Influence on Human Evolution: C-Sections A new report suggests that cesarean births are leading to bigger babies—and more C-sections.