14-08-13 Whether or not humans are the only empathic beings is still under debate. In a new study, researchers directly compared the 'yawn contagion' effect between humans and bonobos (our closest evolutionary cousins). By doing so they were able to directly...

14-07-04 Many traits unique to humans were long thought to have originated in the genus Homo between 2.4 and 1.8 million years ago in Africa. Although scientists have recognized these characteristics for decades, they are reconsidering the true evolutionary...

14-04-23 In parallel with modern man (Homo sapiens), there were other, extinct types of humans with whom we lived side by side, such as Neanderthals and the recently discovered Denisovans of Siberia. Yet only Homo sapiens survived. What was it in our genetic...

14-04-09 Technical objections to the idea that Neandertals interbred with the ancestors of Eurasians have been overcome, thanks to a genome analysis method described in the April 2014 issue of the journal Genetics. The technique can more confidently detect t...

14-03-24 In a world perfumed by freshly popped popcorn and exhaust fumes, where sea breezes can mingle with the scents of sweet flowers or wet paint, new research shows that humans are capable of discriminating at least one trillion different odors. Howard H...

14-02-16 Scientists have discovered the earliest evidence of human footprints outside of Africa, on the Norfolk Coast in the East of England. 科学家在英格兰东部黑斯堡海岸上发现80多万年前的人类脚印遗迹，这是非洲之外最古老的人类脚印遗迹，直接证明欧洲北部早期人...

14-01-28 New research from Queen's University Belfast shows that the tropical forests of South East Asia have been shaped by humans for the last 11,000 years. The rain forests of Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Thailand and Vietnam were previously thought to have bee...

14-01-15 New research shows that humans and other primates burn 50% fewer calories each day than other mammals. The study, published January 13 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests that these remarkably slow metabolisms explain wh...

14-01-13 For some, it's the tradition of steeping（浸泡） tealeaves to brew the perfect cup of tea. For others, it's the morning shuffle to a coffee maker for a hot jolt（颠簸，摇晃） of java. Then there are those who like their wake up with the kind of snap...

13-12-19 The most complete sequence to date of the Neanderthal（穴居人的） genome, using DNA extracted from a woman's toe bone that dates back 50,000 years, reveals a long history of interbreeding among at least four different types of early humans living in...