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New Research Refutes Myth Of Pure Scandinavian Race
June 10, 2008 — A team of forensic scientists at the University of Copenhagen has studied human remains found in two ancient Danish burial grounds dating back to the iron age, and discovered a man who appears to be ... > full story -
Rewriting Greenland's Immigration History
June 5, 2008 — The first immigrants in Greenland were not Indians from the North American continent or Canadian Inuit as previously suggested. And it is not just a question of revising the Greenlandic immigration ... > full story -
Men Fighting Over Women? It's Nothing New, Suggests Research
June 4, 2008 — Men may usually settle it over a drunken brawl in the pub or perhaps a verbal spat -- but new evidence has shown for the first time that fighting over women in prehistoric times could have been worse ... > full story -
New Zealand's Colonization 1000 Years Later Than Previously Thought?
June 4, 2008 — The dating project, in one of the largest studies of its kind, has shown that the country was not visited by humans over 2000 years ago, as some previous research suggests. The new research shows ... > full story -
Evolution Of An Imprinted Domain In Mammals
June 3, 2008 — A new PLoS Biology article investigates the evolution of genomic imprinting in a specific region of the mammalian genome. The work shows that different regions became imprinted at different times ... > full story -
Did Walking On Two Feet Begin With A Shuffle?
May 30, 2008 — A pair of researchers have developed a model that suggests shuffling emerged millions of years ago as a precursor to walking on two feet as a way of saving metabolic energy by a common ancestor of ... > full story -
Altruism In Social Insects Is A Family Affair
May 30, 2008 — The contentious debate about why insects evolved to put the interests of the colony over the individual has been reignited by new research from the University of Leeds, showing that they do so to ... > full story -
Indiana Jones And The Plunder Of Cultural Heritage
May 29, 2008 — As Indiana Jones' fourth adventure hits to the big screen, an international team of archaeologists, anthropologists, museum specialists, ethicists and lawyers is pondering these ethical and legal ... > full story -
Authentic Viking DNA Retrieved From 1,000-year-old Skeletons
May 28, 2008 — Although "Viking" literally means "pirate," recent research has indicated that the Vikings were also traders to the fishmongers of Europe. Stereotypically, these Norsemen are usually pictured wearing ... > full story -
New Research Forces U-turn In Population Migration Theory
May 26, 2008 — Genetic evidence that overturns existing theories about human migration into Island Southeast Asia (covering the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysian Borneo) taking the timeline back by nearly 10,000 ... > full story -
Is Indy Chasing A Fake? Two Well-known Crystal Skulls Did Not, After All, Come From Ancient Mexico
May 25, 2008 — Two well-known crystal skulls, held in the British Museum and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, did not come from ancient Mexico as was once thought. Modern scientific techniques suggest ... > full story -
New Statistical Method Reveals Surprises About Our Ancestry
May 24, 2008 — A statistical approach to studying genetic variation promises to shed new light on the history of human migration. Application of the method has already turned up such surprising findings as a strong ... > full story
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