The Wild Tale of the Cerutti Mastodon, a Fossil That Could Rewrite the Human Story

Globally, around 1 in 4 adolescent girls experienced physical or sexual intimate partner violence

Son preference is positively correlated with patrilocality rates across states and districts of India

Climate change primarily affects child marriage through its impacts on access to resources and income, which in turn affect the main drivers of child marriage: extreme poverty and gender inequality.

Human hunting, not climate change, played a decisive role in the extinction of large mammals over the last 50,000 years

An online survey of 7,513 Afghans found 66% 'agreed' or 'strongly agreed' that human rights for women are a top priority for the future of Afghanistan

Earthquake at same time as eruption could have caused Pompeii deaths

4000-year-old fabric dyed with insect dye discovered in a cave in the Judean Desert

‘A history of contact’: Princeton geneticists are rewriting the narrative of Neanderthals and other ancient humans

People who have invested in cryptocurrency are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories, support political extremism or non-mainstream political ideologies, and have 'dark' personality characteristics such as narcissism…

Infants ability to perceive faces greatly improves between 4 and 12 months with younger infants benefitting the most from the presence of their mother’s odor

Genome evidence points to plague in Stone Age European population crash

Endorsement of hostile sexism indicates a greater tolerance for both public violence, e.g, street harassment & DV/IPV

Fossil with cut marks hints at human existence 21,000 years ago in Argentina

Study brings lifestyle of enigmatic extinct humans into focus

Aggressive Sexual Fantasies were consistently associated with sexual coercion even when a broad range of other important cognitive and behavioral risk factors (e.g., rape-supportive attitudes, violent pornography consumption, etc.) was considered in a cross-sectional study of 3269 Finish men.

A survey of 2193 bengali women indicates that the majority of actors in the socio-legal ecosystem who should be upholding victims' right to live a life free from domestic violence instead place them primarily in the heterosexual patriarchal family…

Neolithic population collapse may have been caused by plague. The Neolithic population crash in northern Europe occurred from about 3300BC to 2900BC

Strangulation among young Australian adults is widespread & has become a gendered sexual behavior

A prehistoric painting in Indonesia has been dated to at least 51,200 years ago, making it the earliest known example of "figurative" cave art in the world and perhaps the oldest known surviving example of a narrative scene

Archaeological evidence of an ethnographically documented Australian Aboriginal ritual dated to the last ice age

Monthly cash transfers reduce risk of poverty — and higher amounts do not lead to higher spending on tobacco or alcohol

Egyptian scribes suffered work-related injuries, study says

Fossil of Neanderthal child with Down's syndrome hints early humans' compassion

Archaeologists find 2,000-year-old wine in Spanish tomb: "Oldest wine ever discovered"

Lokiceratops, a newly discovered species of dinosaur, had bladelike horns between its eyes

Analysis of rock gardens on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) tell the story of a small, resilient population of around 3-4,000 people even when massive moai were erected, countering the notion of a doomed overpopulated island that failed to live sustainably

Child sacrifices at famed Maya site were all boys, many closely related

Ancient text reveals details of Plato’s burial place and final evening, experts say

Self-harm is around twice as common among adolescent girls as it is among boys in North America & Europe, but not in Asia, where rates of self-harm are similar for girls & boys, & rates among boys are generally higher than in the other regions studied

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