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A team of international scientists has discovered new fossils at a field site in Africa that indicate Australopithecus, and the oldest specimens of Homo, coexisted at the same place in Africa at the same time — between 2.6 and 2.8 million years ago. The paleoanthropologists discovered a new species of Australopithecus that has never been found anywhere. The Ledi-Geraru Research …

A mysterious skull with a stalagmite growing out of its head is about 300,000 years old and neither human nor Neanderthal, a new study finds. The skull was reportedly discovered attached to the wall of Petralona Cave in northern Greece in 1960. Researchers have since argued about its position on the human family tree and had trouble figuring out its …

A big reason that BoJack Horseman worked so well was contrast. It took place in a silly world of talking animals, and used that to explore deep human drama in relatable ways. It’s part of what made its oddball jokes work so well, as they helped balance out the darker moments that explored topics like mental health and addiction. The …

Your genome carries quiet traces of meetings your ancestors once had with other kinds of humans. Some of those traces come from the Denisovans, a population that science met first in DNA, then slowly in bone. A new wave of research is turning these strangers into neighbors by stitching together where they lived, when they thrived, and what they left …

Scientists Found 13 Ancient Teeth That May Rewrite Human Evolution  AOL.com Fossils show two types of ancient human ancestors lived at the same place and time. One was possibly an unknown species  CNN New discoveries of Australopithecus and Homo from Ledi-Geraru, Ethiopia  Nature Researchers Discover Fossilized Teeth That May Have Come From an Unknown Hominin Species  Smithsonian Magazine Fossil teeth may come from a …

The simulation made it possible to appreciate how a human embryo does not merely adhere to the uterine lining, but actively inserts itself. “We observe that the embryo pulls on the uterine matrix, moving and reorganizing it,” explained Amélie Godeau, coauthor of the research, which was published in Science Advances. These movements could explain the pain some women report days …

Sign up for Big Think on Substack The most surprising and impactful new stories delivered to your inbox every week, for free. Thirty-five years ago, the Voyager 1 space probe turned its camera toward Earth and snapped a photograph from 3.7 billion miles away. The now-iconic image, dubbed the “Pale Blue Dot” by the author and astrophysicist Carl Sagan, shows …

“Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links.” Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers studying a fossil site in Ethiopia discovered 13 teeth that they believe come from a never-before-known species of Australopithecus. The team said this reveals that Australopithecus and the oldest Homo ancestors coexisted up to 2.8 …

Multimodal profiling of human SAT cell types To investigate the cell-type-level epigenomic landscape of human SAT, we profiled DNA methylation, chromatin conformation and gene expression on nuclei isolated from SAT biopsies from Finnish females (Fig. 1 and Supplementary Note 1.1). We used snm3C-seq to simultaneously profile single-cell-level DNA methylation and chromatin conformation of nuclei isolated from five SAT biopsies (see …

We’re Not So Special: A new book challenges human exceptionalism  Hacker News Source link