Newsroom – Category: Humanities

Stone handaxes, similar to those made by early humans as much as 1.5 million years ago, have been dated for the first time in the Arabian Peninsula, to less than 190,000 years old, where their production may have endured until the arrival of Homo sapiens. more

Declining trend, but not for everyone more

A project by a research agency of the US Department of Defense could easily be misused for developing biological weapons more

As global "generalist specialists", modern humans differed fundamentally from other hominids more

More than 3,000 years, ago Mongolian herders removed problematic teeth from young horses more

Olivier Morin investigates how communication functions across time and space more

If people act hostile towards other ethnic groups, they easily find imitators more

German reunification was not the only factor responsible for the rapid increase in life expectancy in East Germany. more

Researchers find Amazonian Bora people to mimic the rhythm of their language for communication over large distances using drums more

From a research perspective, reading and writing is a fascinating phenomenon. After all, the first writing systems date back less than 6,000 years – the blink of an eye in the timescale of human evolution. How the human brain is nonetheless able to master this complex task is a key question. more