[ad_1] Investigators say mankind’s oldest sculptures could be linked to climate change, diet One of the first examples of art in the world, the enigmatic statuettes of “Venus” sculpted some 30,000 years ago, have intrigued and perplexed scientists. for nearly two centuries. Now a researcher at the University of Colorado …
Read More »Complex teaching and tools ‘evolved together’
[ad_1] IMAGE: Ten versions of instruments that develop (from left to right) in the different study conditions. View More Credit: University of Exeter The human ability to teach and our use of complex tools may have evolved together, according to new research. The improvement of technologies across generations, known as …
Read More »In a pandemic, migration from densely populated cities is more effective than closing borders
[ad_1] IMAGE: The evolution of infection in people as a function of the asymmetry in population distribution shows that when the boundary from high-density to low-density areas is closed, the total spread of the disease … More Credit: Image courtesy of Massimiliano Zanin WASHINGTON, November 17, 2020 – Pandemics are …
Read More »Ancient Dog DNA reveals their lasting connection with people
[ad_1] After that domestication event, some things seem to have remained constant. According to the team’s findings, after dogs separated from wolves over 11,000 years ago, wolves never made a major re-entry into dog populations (until, perhaps, the contemporary wolf dog craze). Given that dogs and wolves belong to the …
Read More »Local culinary preferences prompted the acceptance of new staple crops in prehistoric China
[ad_1] IMAGE: The regional variation in Chinese cuisine that exists today reflects some of the basic food choices people made thousands of years ago. View More Credit: Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute The food preparation preferences of Chinese cooks – such as the technological choice of boiling or steaming cereals instead of …
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