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09 2024
Food fermentation is the oldest production practice using microorganisms in human history. Milk fermentation, for example, can be traced back to 6000–4000 BC in India, and Mediterranean populations produced and c...
23
05 2024
According to a study published in Current Biology on May 22, the genetic components of the ancient populations in the western Tibetan Plateau are closest to ancient populations in the southern Tibetan Plateau, and...
04
04 2024
Mammaliaforms are extinct and extant organisms that are closely related to mammals. Studying mammaliaforms helps scientists understand the evolutionary processes that led to various mammalian features.
In two ...
05
03 2024
A new study from the Nihewan basin of China has revealed that hominins who possessed advanced knapping abilities equivalent to Mode 2 technological features occupied East Asia as early as 1.1 million years ago (Ma...
01
03 2024
Writing a commentary in the 50th anniversary issue of Cell, Qiaomei FU and E. Andrew Bennett, both of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, explored the...
07
02 2024
A new study of a 7–8-million-year-old extinct fossil ape from China called Lufengpithecus offers new insights into the evolution of human bipedalism.
The study, published in The Innovation, was conducted by a...
18
01 2024
A team of researchers from China, Australia, France, Spain, and Germany has revealed advanced material culture in East Asia by 45,000 years ago.
The new study was published in Nature Ecology & Evolution on on ...
10
01 2024
Giants once roamed the karst plains of southern China, three-metre tall apes weighing in at 250 kilograms. These very distant human ancestors – Gigantopithcus blacki – went extinct before humans arrived in the r...
25
12 2023
The human population explosion, soaring from 1.6 billion to over 6 billion during the 20th century, has had a profound impact on global environments and biodiversity. However, large mammalian herbivores, including...
04
12 2023
Elephants, as the largest terrestrial mammals, are renowned for their distinctive feature - the flexible and agile trunk. Described as the most sensitive organ among vertebrates, an elephant's trunk boasts at leas...
