Anthropology News

Posted January 18, 2008:

• Genome Scan Shows Polynesians Have Little Genetic Relationship To Melanesians
• Genetic Diversity Of European Americans And Disease Gene Mapping

Posted January 16, 2008:

• New Survey To Reveal 'Britain's Atlantis'

Posted January 14, 2008:

• Columbus May Have Brought Syphilis To Europe From New World

Posted January 3, 2008:

• Plate Tectonics May Grind To A Halt, Then Start Again

Posted January 2, 2008:

• Evolution Education Is A 'Must' Says Coalition Of Scientific And Teaching Organizations

Posted January 1, 2008:

• Riddle Of The Jade Jewels Reveals Vast Trade Arena
• New Report On First Death By Spearing In Australia

Posted December 21, 2007:

• Unknown Monumental Building Of Herod The Great (73-4 BC) Unearthed
• Gene Neighbors May Have Taken Turns Battling Retroviruses

Posted December 20, 2007:

• Will Beetles Inherit The Earth? Evolutionary Study Reveals Their Long-Term Success

Posted December 19, 2007:

• Geologists Say 'Wall Of Africa' Allowed Humanity To Emerge

Posted December 14, 2007:

• Losses Of Long-Established Genes Contribute To Human Evolution

Posted December 13, 2007:

• Captain Kidd's Shipwreck Of 1699 Discovered

Posted December 12, 2007:

• Adapting To Pregnancy Played Key Role In Human Evolution, Study Shows
• Ape To Human: Walking Upright May Have Protected Heavy Human Babies

Posted December 10, 2007:

• Genome Study Places Modern Humans In Evolutionary Fast Lane
• Are Humans Evolving Faster? Findings Suggest We Are Becoming More Different, Not Alike

Posted December 7, 2007:

• Most Ancient Case Of Tuberculosis Found In 500,000-Year-Old Human; Points To Modern Health Issues

Posted December 4, 2007:

• Neanderthal Children Grew Up Fast

Posted December 3, 2007:

• Fossils Excavated From Bahamian Blue Hole May Give Clues Of Early Life
• Ancient Maya Marketplace Located, Challenges Views On Goods Distribution

Posted November 29, 2007:

• How Our Ancestors Were Like Gorillas

Posted November 26, 2007:

• Gene Study Supports Single Main Migration Across Bering Strait

Posted November 21, 2007:

• Remains Of Ancient Synagogue With Unique Mosaic Floor Found In Galilee

Posted November 19, 2007:

• Earliest Chocolate Drink Of The New World

Posted November 18, 2007:

• 'Noah's Flood' Kick-Started European Farming?

Posted November 14, 2007:

• Maya Politics Likely Played Role In Ancient Large-Game Decline
• Ancient Retroviruses Spurred Evolution Of Gene Regulatory Networks In Humans And Other Primates

Posted November 12, 2007:

• Tool-Wielding Chimps Provide A Glimpse Of Early Human Behavior

Posted November 9, 2007:

• Digging For Dinosaurs In Outback Australia

Posted November 5, 2007:

• Earliest Birds Acted More Like Turkeys Than Common Cuckoos

Posted October 30, 2007:

• Cultic City And Fortress Unearthed In Southern Turkey
• Dead Men Do Tell Tales: Strange Burial Positions Show Pacific Island Life

Posted October 25, 2007:

• New Ideas About Human Migration From Asia To Americas
• Ancient DNA Reveals That Some Neanderthals Were Redheads

Posted October 24, 2007:

• Filling In The Blanks Of Southeast Asian Prehistory

Posted October 18, 2007:

• Genetic Ancestral Testing Cannot Deliver On Its Promise, Study Warns
• Neandertals, Humans Share Key Changes To 'Language Gene'

Posted October 17, 2007:

• Earliest Evidence Of Modern Humans Detected

Posted October 16, 2007:

• Dawn Of Animal Vision Discovered

Posted October 14, 2007:

• Brain Imaging Shows Similarities & Differences In Thoughts Of Chimps And Humans

Posted October 12, 2007:

• Inconsistencies With Neanderthal Genomic DNA Sequences
• Human Cost Of Colombian Coal Revealed

Posted October 10, 2007:

• Environmental Setting Of Human Migrations In The Circum-Pacific Region

Posted October 9, 2007:

• Early Apes Walked Upright 15 Million Years Earlier Than Previously Thought, Evolutionary Biologist Argues

Posted October 8, 2007:

• Ritual Threats Of Violence In Small Newfoundland Communities Were Method Of Creating Trust, Researchers Say
• Ancient African Megadroughts May Have Driven Human Evolution -- Out Of Africa

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