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AnthropologyChimpanzees are more likely to reproduce with mates whose genetic makeup most differs from their own, and are unusual in that even among nonrelatives and virtual strangers they can tell genetically similar mates from more distant ones, finds Duke evolutionary anthropologists in a new study.

219 points 5 comments submitted 5 days ago by mveaMD-PhD-MBA | Clinical Professor/Medicine to /r/science

http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/4/1/160422

AnthropologyChanging the paradigm from 'race' to human genome variation

18 points 2 comments submitted 8 days ago by Peoplespostmodernist to /r/science

http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/full/ng1454.html

AnthropologySophisticated Defense System Discovered at Biblical-Era Mining Camp

7 points 3 comments submitted 8 days ago by drewiepoodle to /r/science

http://www.livescience.com/57494-fortification-found-israel-mining-camp.html

AnthropologyArchaeological Find Puts Humans in North America 10,000 Years Earlier Than Thought

346 points 31 comments submitted 8 days ago by hakai_magazineHakai Magazine to /r/science

https://www.hakaimagazine.com/article-short/archaeological-find-puts-humans-north-america-10000-years-earlier-thought

AnthropologyRare Evidence of Pregnancy-Related Death Found at Ancient Troy

16 points 1 comment submitted 9 days ago by NinjaDiscoJesus to /r/science

http://www.livescience.com/57476-ancient-troy-skeleton-revealed-pregnancy-infection.html?

AnthropologyAboriginal Australians co-existed with the megafauna for at least 17,000 years

78 points 6 comments submitted 10 days ago by nowyouseemenowyoudo2 to /r/science

https://theconversation.com/aboriginal-australians-co-existed-with-the-megafauna-for-at-least-17-000-years-70589

AnthropologyScientists have found the oldest evidence for right-handedness in a 1.8-million-year-old fossil of our ancestor Homo habilis.

53 points 3 comments submitted 10 days ago by SteRoPo to /r/science

http://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2017/01/11/why_are_most_people_right-handed_the_answer_may_be_in_mouths_110152.html

AnthropologyMapping Post-Glacial expansions: The Peopling of Southwest Asia

5 points 0 comments submitted 11 days ago by burtzev to /r/science

http://www.nature.com/articles/srep40338?WT.ec_id=SREP-20170110&spMailingID=53165013&spUserID=Njk3NjE5NzEwMTAS1&spJobID=1081810027&spReportId=MTA4MTgxMDAyNwS2

AnthropologyPresent-day African analogue of a pre-European Amazonian floodplain fishery shows convergence in cultural niche construction

3 points 0 comments submitted 12 days ago by MictlantecuhtliGrad Student | Anthropology | Mesoamerican Archaeology to /r/science

http://www.pnas.org/content/113/52/14938

AnthropologyEarliest Human Presence in North America Dated to the Last Glacial Maximum: New Radiocarbon Dates from Bluefish Caves, Canada

82 points 5 comments submitted 13 days ago by MictlantecuhtliGrad Student | Anthropology | Mesoamerican Archaeology to /r/science

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0169486

AnthropologyEarliest Human Presence in North America Dated to the Last Glacial Maximum[24 000 years ago]: New Radiocarbon Dates from Bluefish Caves, Canada

5 points 1 comment submitted 14 days ago by adalhaidis to /r/science

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0169486

AnthropologyStudy Sheds New Light on Peopling of Tibet - A new analysis of Chusang, an archeological site on the high-altitude Tibetan Plateau, suggests that permanent residents may have set up camp thousands of years sooner than previously thought.

13 points 0 comments submitted 14 days ago by snikrepab_ to /r/science

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6320/64

AnthropologyPermanent human occupation of the central Tibetan Plateau in the early Holocene

0 points 0 comments submitted 16 days ago by MictlantecuhtliGrad Student | Anthropology | Mesoamerican Archaeology to /r/science

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6320/64

AnthropologyStudy explores the key role that newsletters played in the consumption of media 400 years ago. Today, surveys suggest the public’s news consumption looks a lot like the heyday of the newsletter. According to the Pew Research Center, 38% of Americans get their news online, primarily from social media

110 points 6 comments submitted 20 days ago by drewiepoodle to /r/science

http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2016/017497/news-evolution

AnthropologyThe Chuska Slope as an agricultural alternative to Chaco Canyon: A rebuttal of Tankersley et al. (2016)

7 points 2 comments submitted 22 days ago by MictlantecuhtliGrad Student | Anthropology | Mesoamerican Archaeology to /r/science

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X16305466

AnthropologyAncient DNA can both diminish and defend modern minds

2 points 2 comments submitted 22 days ago by Wagamaga to /r/science

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-12/asu-adc122916.php

AnthropologyIdentifying Ancient Settlement Patterns through LiDAR in the Mosquitia Region of Honduras

39 points 3 comments submitted 24 days ago by MictlantecuhtliGrad Student | Anthropology | Mesoamerican Archaeology to /r/science

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0159890

AnthropologyAn economy of human sacrifice: The practice of sunjang in an ancient state of Korea

16 points 4 comments submitted 25 days ago by trot-trot to /r/science

http://www.academia.edu/27424444/An_economy_of_human_sacrifice_The_practice_of_sunjang_in_an_ancient_state_of_Korea

AnthropologyCold Tolerance Among Inuit May Come From Extinct Human Relatives [Denisovans]

39 points 8 comments submitted 26 days ago by oldspice75 to /r/science

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/23/science/inuit-greenland-denisovans.html?hpw&rref=science&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

AnthropologyPrehistoric human ancestors that created hand stencils in caves 40,000 years ago can now be identified as male or female with more than 90% accuracy.

42 points 4 comments submitted 28 days ago by drewiepoodle to /r/science

http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/june-2013/article/who-made-the-ancient-rock-art

AnthropologyArchaic adaptive introgression in TBX15/WARS2 - Arctic Inuit cold adaptations may originate from Denisovans

4 points 0 comments submitted 1 month ago by MictlantecuhtliGrad Student | Anthropology | Mesoamerican Archaeology to /r/science

http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/12/20/molbev.msw283.abstract?sid=3213026f-33d3-48ba-a07c-d6cf1543296b

AnthropologyA team of international scientists, led by the University of Bristol, has uncovered the earliest direct evidence of humans processing plants for food found anywhere in the world.

44 points 2 comments submitted 1 month ago by NinjaDiscoJesus to /r/science

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2016/december/prehistoric-plant-processing-.html

AnthropologyEarliest direct evidence of plant processing in prehistoric Saharan pottery : Nature Plants

2 points 0 comments submitted 1 month ago by delloyibo to /r/science

http://www.nature.com/articles/nplants2016194

AnthropologyDiet and environment 1.2 million years ago revealed through analysis of dental calculus from Europe’s oldest hominin at Sima del Elefante, Spain

12 points 0 comments submitted 1 month ago by delloyibo to /r/science

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00114-016-1420-x

AnthropologyDevelopment of new techniques makes it possible to date Australian Aboriginal rock art

5 points 1 comment submitted 1 month ago by DoremusJessup to /r/science

http://www.heritagedaily.com/2016/12/development-of-new-techniques-makes-it-possible-to-date-australian-aboriginal-rock-art-see-more-at-httpwww-ansto-gov-auaboutanstomediacentrenewsacs112993sthash-6evoyljr-dpuf/113576

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