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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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  Is Tomorrow the End?

  December 20, 2012 — End-of-the-world predictions are common in human history, but believers in the Mayan Doomsday claim don’t understand the Mayan calendar system, an anthropologist ... > full story
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  Maya Expert Weighs in on Dec. 21 Apocalypse Theories

  December 20, 2012 — Rusty Barrett, an expert on Mayan culture, weighed in on how the Mayan calendar works, discussed his research with the Mayan population, and shared his observations of the Maya's reactions to the ... > full story
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  Archaeologists Date World's Oldest Timber Constructions

  December 20, 2012 — A research team has succeeded in precisely dating four water wells built by the first Central European agricultural civilization with the help of dendrochronology or growth ring dating. The wells ... > full story

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  Fine Hands, Fists of Fury: Our Hands Evolved for Punching, Not Just Dexterity

  December 19, 2012 — Men whacked punching bags for a new study that suggests human hands evolved not only for the manual dexterity needed to use tools, play a violin or paint a work of art, but so men could make fists ... > full story

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  Crisis in Syria Has Mesopotamian Precedent, Experts Say

  December 18, 2012 — New research has revealed intriguing parallels between modern day and Bronze-Age Syria as the Mesopotamian region underwent urban decline, government collapse, and ... > full story
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  Scientists Discover Evidence of Giant Panda's Population History and Local Adaptation

  December 16, 2012 — A research team has successfully reconstructed the history of the giant panda from its origin to the ... > full story

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