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Anthropologists Develop New Approach To Explain Religious Behavior
September 10, 2008 — Without a way to measure religious beliefs, anthropologists have had difficulty studying religion. Now, two anthropologists from the University of Missouri and Arizona State University have developed ... > full story -
Childbirth Was Already Difficult For Neanderthals
September 9, 2008 — Neanderthals had a brain at birth of a similar size to that of modern-day babies. However, after birth, their brain grew more quickly than it does for Homo sapiens and became larger too. ... > full story -
Trichoplax Genome Sequenced: 'Rosetta Stone' For Understanding Evolution
September 8, 2008 — Molecular and evolutionary biologists have produced the full genome sequence of Trichoplax, one of nature's most primitive multicellular organisms, providing a new insight into the evolution of all ... > full story -
Long-held Assumptions Of Flightless Bird Evolution Challenged By New Research
September 7, 2008 — Large flightless birds of the southern continents -- African ostriches, Australian emus and cassowaries, South American rheas and the New Zealand kiwi -- do not share a common flightless ancestor as ... > full story -
DNA Shows That Last Woolly Mammoths Had North American Roots
September 5, 2008 — In a surprising reversal of conventional wisdom, a DNA-based study has revealed that the last of the woolly mammoths--which lived between 40,000 and 4,000 years ago--had roots that were exclusively ... > full story -
Tutankhamen Fathered Twins, Mummified Fetuses Suggest
September 4, 2008 — Two fetuses found in the tomb of Tutankhamen may have been twins and were very likely to have been the children of the teenage Pharaoh, according to the anatomist who first studied the mummified ... > full story -
Significance Of Milk In Development Of Culture To Be Studied
September 4, 2008 — The capacity to drink and tolerate milk may have been of tremendous importance for the cultural development of Europe. Researchers will now study when and where this capacity emerged and what it ... > full story -
Scientists Develop New Computational Method To Investigate Origin Of Life
September 2, 2008 — Scientists have developed a new computational method that they say will help them to understand how life began on Earth. The method has the potential to trace the evolutionary histories of proteins ... > full story -
Person's Geographic Origins Located From DNA
September 2, 2008 — One day soon, you may be able to pinpoint the geographic origins of your ancestors based on analysis of your DNA. New research uses DNA to predict the geographic origins of individuals from a sample ... > full story -
Prehistoric Funerary Precinct Excavated In Northern Israel: Grave Goods Include Phallic Figurines, Sea Shells
September 2, 2008 — Hebrew University excavations in the north of Israel have revealed a prehistoric funerary precinct dating back to 6,750-8,500 BCE. The precinct, a massive walled enclosure measuring 10 meters by at ... > full story -
'Pristine' Amazonian Region Hosted Large, Urban Civilization
August 29, 2008 — They aren't the lost cities early explorers sought fruitlessly to discover. But ancient settlements in the Amazon, now almost entirely obscured by tropical forest, were once large and complex enough ... > full story -
Bone Parts Don't Add Up To Conclusion Of Hobbit-like Palauan Dwarfs
August 27, 2008 — Misinterpreted fragments of leg bones, teeth and brow ridges found in Palau appear to be an archaeologist's undoing, according to researchers at three institutions. They say that the so-called dwarfs ... > full story
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