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Introduction In trying to understand how aggression works, as well as aggressive emotions like anger, I decided to go to the animal literature. Human psychology research is all too prone to being determined by researchers’ preconceptions, and we all have a lot of firsthand experience and personal agendas when it comes to theorizing about human behavior. It’s easier to get some distance when thinking about animals; we have less stake in any particular theory of how animal emotions work. It...

How we discovered world’s oldest known cave painting of animals in a secret Indonesian valley Dating to at least 45,500 years ago, the art portrays images of the Sulawesi warty pig. Adhi Agus Oktaviana in front of the Leang Tedongnge rock art panel. | Adhi Agus Oktaviana, Author provided The dating of an exceptionally old cave painting of animals that was found recently on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is reported in our recent paper. The painting portrays images of the...

A team of Griffith University archaeologists has shared in the discovery of what may be the world's oldest known cave painting, dating back to at least...

Archaic art "The people who made it were fully modern, they were just like us, they had all of the capacity and the tools to do any painting that they liked," she added. The oldest-known cave painting before the discovery of the pig was also found in Sulawesi by the same team. It showed part-human part-animal figures hunting and was around 43,900 years old. Cave paintings such as these could provide important insights about human migration during the time, experts say, especially since it is un...

Arizona State University's School of Earth and Space Exploration was recently awarded four Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion seed grants from The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

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Scientists Examine China’s Meipu Teeth Thursday, January 14, 2021 BURGOS, SPAIN—According to a statement released by Spain’s National Center for the Investigation of Human Evolution (CENIEH), researchers María Martinón-Torres, José María Bermúdez de Castro, and their colleagues at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing examined the Meipu teeth, which were discovered in southern China in the 1970s, with computerized axial microtomography and o...

Evolution In A Nutshell Putting recent human evolutionary history in a nutshell: the period before Homo sapiens is known as the Lower Stone age, and that gave way to the Middle Stone Age, where we began developing simple stone, wood and rope tools. In the Late Stone Age, the skill sets that were developed using these tools became craft disciplines, and the rapid advancements in technologies started at that time haven’t stopped since, leading to our current state, as tool wielding monkeys wi...

In a new study led by ASU Assistant Professor Chuan Liao, researchers looked at what drives large-scale land acquisitions and how the implementation of large-scale land acquisitions for agricultural development affects carbon emissions, and in turn, climate change.

Based on ancient tools that have been unearthed in Senegal by researchers from the Max Planck Institute, some parts of Africa may have remained in the Stone Age for up to 20,000 years later than others parts of the continent. It was previously believed that ancient Africans stopped using tools like simple points and scrapers... Read more »