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Ancient Depiction of Childbirth Discovered at Etruscan Site in Tuscany
October 20, 2011 — An archaeological excavation at Poggio Colla, the site of a 2,700-year-old Etruscan settlement in Italy's Mugello Valley, has turned up a surprising and unique find: two images of a woman giving ... > full story -
Blame Backbone Fractures on Evolution, Not Osteoporosis: Adaptation to Upright Walking Leaves Humans Susceptible
October 19, 2011 — Osteoporosis is blamed for backbone fractures. The real culprit could well be our own vertebrae, which evolved to absorb the pounding of upright walking, researchers ... > full story -
Young Human-Specific Genes Correlated With Brain Evolution
October 19, 2011 — Young genes that appeared since the primate branch split from other mammal species are expressed in unique structures of the developing human brain, a new analysis ... > full story -
Solving the Mysteries of Short-Legged Neandertals
October 19, 2011 — While most studies have concluded that a cold climate led to the short lower legs typical of Neandertals, researchers have found that lower leg lengths shorter than the typical modern human's let ... > full story -
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Piecing Together the Priceless 'Cairo Genizah'
October 18, 2011 — The Cairo Genizah is an irreplaceable repository for information about 1,000 years of human history. But the 350,000 fragments that make up the Genizah are scattered worldwide. Researchers are now ... > full story -
Caveman Politics: Has Our Violent History Led to an Evolved Preference for Physically Strong Political Leaders?
October 18, 2011 — New research into evolutionary psychology suggests that physical stature affects our preferences in political leadership. The article reveals that a preference for physically formidable leaders, or ... > full story -
Archaeologists Find Blade 'Production Lines' Existed as Much as 400,000 Years Ago
October 17, 2011 — Archaeologists report that large numbers of long, slender cutting tools were discovered at the Qesem Cave outside Tel Aviv. They report that every element of the system points to a sophisticated tool ... > full story -
New Technologies Challenge Old Ideas About Early Hominid Diets
October 13, 2011 — New assessments by researchers using the latest high-tech tools to study the diets of early hominids are challenging long-held assumptions about what our ancestors ... > full story -
Most Vertebrates -- Including Humans -- Descended from Ancestor With Sixth Sense
October 11, 2011 — A new study that caps more than 25 years of work finds that the vast majority of vertebrates -- some 30,000 species of land animals (including humans) and a roughly equal number of ray-finned fishes ... > full story -
Sexual Selection by Sugar Molecule Helped Determine Human Origins, Researchers Say
October 10, 2011 — Researchers say that losing the ability to make a particular kind of sugar molecule boosted disease protection in early hominids, and may have directed the evolutionary emergence of our ancestors, ... > full story
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