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Mysterious link emerges between Native Americans and people half a globe away
Traces of Australo-Melanesian ancestry in some Native Americans could shed light on the peopling of the Americas. By Michael Balter .
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55 Years at Gombe
Q&A With Jane [Goodall] on Origins of Life Work
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A kiss is not a kiss. In some cultures it’s just gross, researchers find.
"It’s a reminder that behaviors that seems so normative often do not occur in rest of the world," researcher Justin Garcia said. Researchers at the University of Nevada and Indiana University found fewer than half of the world’s cultures kiss in a romantic way. Although many societies consider kissing to be a romantic or erotic activity, others have gone as far as to call it “gross” and ask why anyone would “share their dinner.”
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Tulane archaeologists help unearth key Maya monuments
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What lies beneath
Why do archaeological fraudsters work so hard to deceive us? Because bad science makes for good stories
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The Utopia of Rules, by David Graeber
The Imperial examination system is a clear example of the kind of bureaucracy David Graeber describes in his new book The Utopia of Rules, published by Melville House. Graeber, an anthropologist and political activist based at the London School of Economics, is a provocative critic of bureaucracy, which he believes to be stupid-making, hostile to outsiders, needlessly cruel, explicitly violent (he writes pithily that “Police are bureaucrats with weapons”), and in many ways hopelessly corrupt.
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Is the feeling that we’re immortal innate?
We have this powerful sense that death is a transition, not an end. Why can’t we imagine a world without us? By Natalie Emmons.
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Bonobo squeaks hint at earlier speech evolution
A study finds that wild bonobos use a single high-pitched call in a variety of contexts, showing a linguistic flexibility that was thought to be uniquely human... Researchers say the new findings push back the development of context-free vocal calls to our shared ancestor with bonobos, 6-10 million years ago.
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British Museum uses virtual reality to transport visitors to the bronze age
Virtual reality experience takes visitors back in time using real objects and state of the art 3D gadgets. The museum is launching its first virtual reality weekend, inviting visitors to engage with the past not just through the real objects in the galleries but through state of the art 3D headsets, tablets, and a projection of the recreated house into a dome structure large enough for groups of five to enter.
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MIT claims to have found a “language universal” that ties all languages together
A language universal would bring evidence to Chomsky's controversial theories.
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The mystery of Neanderthals’ massive eyes
Our extinct cousins had eyes much larger than ours. Were these giant peepers the reason for the Neanderthals' demise, or the secret of their success? By Melissa Hogenboom. .
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Do chimpanzee wars prove that violence is innate?
Humans have fought wars for thousands of years, and there is evidence that chimps do as well. Are both species innately violent?
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Were Carbs A Brain Food For Our Ancient Ancestors?
Once ancient humans learned to cook, starchy foods could have given them a calorie bump that fueled the evolution of the human brain, British researchers argue in a new paper.
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Ruins may be remains of lost Spartan palace
HELEN. Achilles. Agamemnon. They’re names which date from the dawn of civilisation. Now the lost capital of Mycenean Sparta is emerging from the rubble of myth and history.
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How A Pregnant Woman's Love Of Dogs Led To Death By Parasite In Ancient Greece
Could a pregnant woman's love of dogs have caused her early death in ancient Greece? These archaeologist think they have evidence that it did.
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The million year old monkey: New evidence confirms the antiquity of fossil primate
An international team of scientists have dated a species of fossil monkey found across the Caribbean to just over 1 million years old.
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How Europeans evolved white skin
Ancient DNA from skeletons shows dramatic natural selection on skin color and height in many Europeans. By Ann Gibbons.
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New human-like species discovered in S Africa
Scientists in South Africa have discovered a new human-like species, which could change ideas about our early relatives.
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New human-like species discovered in S Africa
Scientists have discovered a new human-like species in a burial chamber deep in a cave system in South Africa. The discovery of 15 partial skeletons is the largest single discovery of its type in Africa. The researchers claim that the discovery will change ideas about our human ancestors. The studies which have been published in the journal Elife also indicate that these individuals were capable of ritual behaviour.
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Staten Island Students Brew Chicha Beer To Learn About Ancient Peruvian Migration
The beer of choice for anthropology students at Wagner College is not Budweiser or PBR – it’s chicha de maíz, a corn beer made from an ancient Peruvian recipe. Simmering in a chemistry lab on campus, what looks like pea soup crossed with oatmeal may hold the key to understanding migration patterns among the ancient Moche of Peru.
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