Posts Tagged ‘anthropology’
Like Lady Gaga, early primate favored claws
U. FLORIDA (US) — Our primate ancestors may have traded flat nails for raised claws in the name of function, much like pop icons Adele and Lady Gaga are doing today in the name of fashion. Continue…
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Science & Technology - Jan 5, 2012 11:36 - 0 Comments
Bone DNA dates disease to Middle Ages
MICHIGAN STATE (US) — A study of skeletal remains suggests the infectious disease brucellosis has been endemic to Albania since at least the Middle Ages. (more…)
Society & Culture - Dec 22, 2011 16:25 - 2 Comments
Syphilis origins point to Columbus
EMORY (US) — New analysis of skeletal evidence suggests Christopher Columbus returned to Europe with unpleasant cargo: the bacteria that evolved into syphilis. (more…)
Society & Culture - Dec 21, 2011 16:29 - 0 Comments
Poet’s death solved after 150 years
PENN STATE (US) — Known for her poetry, letters, and marriage to Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning left a legacy of unanswered questions about her lifelong chronic illness. (more…)
Top Stories - Dec 14, 2011 11:12 - 1 Comment
Low-protein diet: How orangutans survive
RUTGERS (US) — How orangutans survive during extreme food shortages may help scientists better understand human eating disorders and obesity. (more…)
Science & Technology - Dec 2, 2011 11:39 - 0 Comments
Like humans, chimps share to be social
IOWA STATE (US) — Humans aren’t the only ones who recognize the benefits of sharing. New research finds male chimps share plants and hunting tools with females, perhaps as a strategy for future mating. (more…)
Science & Technology - Nov 29, 2011 11:26 - 0 Comments
Artificial ‘brain’ network hunts for fossils
WASHINGTON U.-ST. LOUIS (US) — Artificial intelligence is giving paleontologists a leg up in locating fossils—usually a task akin to finding the proverbial needle in a haystack. (more…)
Science & Technology - Nov 29, 2011 10:35 - 0 Comments
Scientists uncover soybeans’ Asian roots
U. TORONTO (CAN) / U. OREGON (US) — New research challenges many of the long-held beliefs about when and where humans first began to domesticate soybeans—and specifically, increase its seed size. (more…)
Science & Technology - Nov 17, 2011 8:04 - 0 Comments
New evidence early primate lived in trees
JOHNS HOPKINS (US) — The first ankle and toe fossils from the earliest North American primate suggest our first forerunners on the continent may have lived or moved primarily in trees, like modern lemurs. (more…)
Science & Technology - Nov 7, 2011 11:16 - 1 Comment
No single cause for Ice Age extinctions
TEXAS A&M (US) —Neither climate change nor humans alone can account for the Ice Age mass extinctions, according to a new international study. (more…)
Society & Culture - Oct 25, 2011 16:58 - 1 Comment
Early hunters: Pre-Clovis weapon found in US
TEXAS A&M (US) — The tip of a bone point fragment found embedded in a mastodon rib from an archaeological site in Washington state shows that hunters were present in North America at least 800 years before Clovis. (more…)
Science & Technology - Oct 20, 2011 12:50 - 1 Comment
Short legs let Neandertals climb mountains
JOHNS HOPKINS (US) — Neandertals evolved with such short lower legs so they could move more efficiently over the mountainous terrain where they lived, a new study concludes. (more…)
Society & Culture - Oct 10, 2011 8:26 - 3 Comments
Ancient Maya road ‘frozen’ by volcano
U. COLORADO-BOULDER (US) — A team excavating a Maya village in El Salvador buried by a volcanic eruption 1,400 years ago has unexpectedly hit an ancient white road that appears to lead to and from the town frozen in time by a blanket of ash. (more…)
Society & Culture - Sep 14, 2011 12:04 - 0 Comments
Mothers matter most in child survival
U. MICHIGAN (US) — In West Africa, where resources are scarce, children are four more times likely to die by age 5 if their mothers are dead and almost twice as likely to die if their grandmothers are alive. (more…)
Top Stories - Sep 14, 2011 11:07 - 0 Comments
Testosterone drops when dudes become dads
NORTHWESTERN (US) — Dads are biologically wired to care for kids, according to a new study that finds fatherhood lowers testosterone levels. (more…)
Top Stories - Sep 12, 2011 11:33 - 1 Comment
Virtual skull: 3D peek at hominid brain
EMORY (US) — A virtual endocast of a hominid skull that dates back nearly 2 million years raises questions about the evolution of the human brain. (more…)
Top Stories - Aug 24, 2011 9:41 - 0 Comments
Fingernails are 55 million years old
U. FLORIDA (US) — Nails on fingers and toes first appeared at the same time as a 200,000-year global warming event 55 million years ago, giving modern primates better agility and the ability to grasp. (more…)
Society & Culture - Aug 5, 2011 9:10 - 4 Comments
Generosity: Survival of the nicest?
UC SANTA BARBARA (US) — It turns out that being generous is not kowtowing to social pressure or cultural conformity—it’s actually the way Mother Nature intended us to be. (more…)
Society & Culture - Jun 30, 2011 14:26 - 11 Comments
War costs: $4 trillion, 225,000 lives
BROWN (US) — Nearly 10 years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the cost of wars include at least 225,000 people killed and expenditures between $3.2 and $4 trillion. (more…)
