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Chimps May Have A 'Language-ready' Brain
February 29, 2008 — An area of the brain involved in the planning and production of spoken and signed language in humans plays a similar role in chimpanzee communication, researchers report in Current Biology. The ... > full story -
Centuries-old Maya Blue Mystery Finally Solved
February 28, 2008 — Anthropologists have discovered how the ancient Maya produced an unusual, widely studied blue pigment that was used in offerings, pottery, murals and other contexts across Mesoamerica from A.D. 300 ... > full story -
Royals Weren't Only Builders Of Maya Temples, Archaeologist Finds
February 26, 2008 — An intrepid archaeologist is well on her way to dislodging the prevailing assumptions of scholars about the people who built and used Maya ... > full story -
No Easy Answers In Evolution Of Human Language
February 21, 2008 — The evolution of human speech was far more complex than is implied by some recent attempts to link it to a specific gene a professor of computational linguistics. Some researchers in recent years ... > full story -
Most Detailed Global Study Of Genetic Variation Completed
February 21, 2008 — Scientists have produced the largest and most detailed worldwide study of human genetic variation. Like astronomers who build ever-larger telescopes to peer deeper into space, population geneticists ... > full story -
Human Culture Subject To Natural Selection, Study Shows
February 20, 2008 — The process of natural selection can act on human culture as well as on genes, a new study finds. Scientists have shown for the first time that cultural traits affecting survival and reproduction ... > full story -
Genome Of Marine Organism Tells Of Humans' Unicellular Ancestors
February 20, 2008 — A ubiquitous but little-known marine organism, the choanoflagellate, is the last one-celled ancestor of humans and provides insight into how cells learned to assemble into multicelled organisms. The ... > full story -
Cleopatra's Cosmetics And Hammurabi's Heineken: Name Brands Far Predating Modern Capitalism
February 19, 2008 — A pioneering new study in Current Anthropology finds that branding, and our attachment to them, far predates modern capitalism, and indeed modern Western society. Labels on ancient containers, which ... > full story -
There Is 'Design' In Nature, Biologist Argues
February 18, 2008 — A Brown University biologist says the best way to communicate evolution in a religious America is to acknowledge that there is indeed a "design" in living things. He says scientists should embrace ... > full story -
Egypt's Earliest Agricultural Settlement Unearthed
February 18, 2008 — Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence ever discovered of an ancient Egyptian agricultural settlement, including farmed grains, remains of domesticated animals, pits for cooking and even ... > full story -
Neanderthals Moved From Place To Place, Tooth Analysis Shows
February 15, 2008 — A 40,000-year-old tooth has provided scientists with the first direct evidence that Neanderthals moved from place to place during their lifetimes. The tooth, a third molar, was formed when the ... > full story -
Thousands Of Humans Inhabited New World's Doorstep For 20,000 Years
February 13, 2008 — The human journey from Asia to the New World was interrupted by a 20,000-year layover in Beringia. Furthermore, the New World was colonized by approximately 1,000 to 5,000 people -- a substantially ... > full story
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