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  Facebook Concept Used by 16th Century Scholars

  January 15, 2013 — Our obsession with social networking is not exclusive to the 21st century, according to ... > full story
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  War Was Central to Minoan Civilization of Crete, Contrary to Popular Belief

  January 15, 2013 — Researchers have discovered that the ancient civilization of Crete, known as Minoan, had strong martial traditions, contradicting the commonly held view of Minoans as a peace-loving ... > full story
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  Gene Flow from India to Australia About 4,000 Years Ago

  January 14, 2013 — Australia is thought to have remained largely isolated between its initial colonization around 40,000 years ago and the arrival of Europeans in the late 1800s. A new study has found evidence of ... > full story
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  What Did Our Ancestors Look Like? Hair and Eye Color Can Be Determined for Ancient Human Remains

  January 13, 2013 — A new method of establishing hair and eye color from modern forensic samples can also be used to identify details from ancient human remains, finds a new study. The HIrisPlex DNA analysis system was ... > full story
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  A History Lesson from Genes: Using DNA to Tell Us How Populations Change

  January 9, 2013 — Researchers have developed a software model that can infer population history from modern ... > full story
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  Archaeologists Unearth More Than 300 Prehistoric Clay Figurines in Greece

  January 7, 2013 — Archaeologists studying a Neolithic archaeological site in central Greece have helped unearth over 300 clay figurines, one of the highest density for such finds in south-eastern ... > full story
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  'Universal' Personality Traits Don't Necessarily Apply to Isolated Indigenous People

  January 3, 2013 — Five personality traits widely thought to be universal across cultures might not be, according to a study of an isolated Bolivian ... > full story
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  How Some Medieval Cultures Adapted to Rise of Islam

  January 2, 2013 — New history research examines how border areas and frontiers of the past adapted to major political, cultural and social shifts, specifically in terms of the rise of Islam in Asia and the Middle ... > full story
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  Did Lucy Walk on the Ground or Stay in the Trees?

  December 31, 2012 — Researchers have investigated tree-climbing behavior of modern hunter-gatherers to elucidate our fossil ancestors' terrestrial versus arboreal ... > full story
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  Fluctuating Environment May Have Driven Human Evolution

  December 26, 2012 — A series of rapid environmental changes in East Africa roughly 2 million years ago may be responsible for driving human evolution, according to researchers at Penn State and Rutgers ... > full story

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