Anthropology News

Posted February 24, 2007:

• Experimental Evolution In Robots Probes The Emergence Of Biological Communication

Posted February 23, 2007:

• Chimpanzees Discovered Making And Using Spears To Hunt Other Primates

Posted February 20, 2007:

• The Mysterious Case Of Columbus's Silver Ore
• Practice Of Farming Reaches Back Farther Than Thought

Posted February 18, 2007:

• Europeans' Understanding Of Science, Evolution, More Advanced Than Americans

Posted February 16, 2007:

• Out Of Africa -- Bacteria, As Well: Homo Sapiens And H. Pylori Jointly Spread Across The Globe
• Americans Cultivated And Traded Chili Peppers 6,000 Years Ago

Posted February 15, 2007:

• Study Of Diabetes And Race Reveals The Imperfect Science Of Defining Ethnic Groups

Posted February 13, 2007:

• Chimp Stone Age: West African Chimpanzees Have Been Cracking Nuts With Stone Tools For Thousands Of Years
• Researchers Unearth 4,300-year-old Chimpanzee Technology; 'Stone Hammers' Fuel Evolutionary Debate

Posted February 12, 2007:

• Mummy's Amazing American Maize
• No Missing Link? Evolutionary Changes Occur Suddenly, Professor Says

Posted February 8, 2007:

• Prehistoric Origins Of Stomach Ulcers Uncovered

Posted February 1, 2007:

• NASA To Fly Historic Jamestown Artifact, Mementos On Space Shuttle

Posted January 30, 2007:

• Earliest Semitic Text Revealed In Egyptian Pyramid Inscription

Posted January 29, 2007:

• Anthropologist Confirms 'Hobbit' Indeed A Separate Species

Posted January 28, 2007:

• Shipwreck From Early Islamic Period Discovered Off Israeli Coast

Posted January 24, 2007:

• First Genetic Evidence Of Long-lived African Presence Within Britain
• 'Terror Bird' Arrived In North America Before Land Bridge, Study Finds

Posted January 23, 2007:

• Paleontologists Discover Most Primitive Primate Skeleton

Posted January 18, 2007:

• Toward More Effective Paleolgenetic Analysis

Posted January 16, 2007:

• 40,000-year-old Skull Shows Both Modern Human And Neandertal Traits

Posted January 12, 2007:

• 'Out Of Africa' Theory Boost: Skull Dating Suggests Modern Humans Evolved In Africa

Posted January 4, 2007:

• Researchers Track Movements Of Ancient Central Americans Using Satellites, Video-game Technology
• The Evolution Of Human Diet

Posted December 22, 2006:

• European Neanderthals Showed Significant Physical Differences From North To South

Posted December 20, 2006:

• Human-chimp Difference May Be Bigger
• History-hunting Geneticists Can Still Follow Familiar Trail

Posted December 18, 2006:

• New Male-specific Gene In Algae Unveils An Origin Of Male And Female

Posted December 14, 2006:

• Scientists Solve Riddle Of Mysterious Faces On South Pacific Artifacts

Posted December 8, 2006:

• Ancient Ape Ruled Out Of Man's Ancestral Line

Posted December 7, 2006:

• Ancient Climate Change May Portend Toasty Future

Posted December 5, 2006:

• Gendered Division Of Labor Gave Modern Humans Advantage Over Neanderthals

Posted November 30, 2006:

• Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Curse: Tablet To God Maglus Invokes Destruction Of Cloak-pilferer

Posted November 27, 2006:

• Synchrotron Reveals How Neanderthal Teeth Grew

Posted November 24, 2006:

• Genetic Variation: We're More Different Than We Thought

Posted November 20, 2006:

• Origins Of Life: New Approach Helps Expand Study Of Living Fossils

Posted November 17, 2006:

• Geologists Find New Origins Of Appalachian Mountains
• Unraveling Where Chimp And Human Brains Diverge

Posted November 16, 2006:

• Neanderthal Genome Sequencing Yields Surprising Results And Opens A New Door To Future Studies

Posted November 14, 2006:

• Biblical Latrine: Ancient Parasites Show That Cleanliness May Have Been Next To Sickliness

Posted November 12, 2006:

• Raiding For Women? Female Remains In Graveyards Reflect War In Pre-Hispanic New Mexico

Posted November 10, 2006:

• Varied Diet Of Early Hominid Casts Doubt On Extinction Theory

Posted November 6, 2006:

• More Human-Neandertal Mixing Evidence Uncovered

Posted November 5, 2006:

• New Phylum Sheds Light On Ancestor Of Animals, Humans

Posted November 3, 2006:

• Neuron Cell Stickiness May Hold Key To Evolution Of The Human Brain

Posted October 31, 2006:

• Phoenix Rising: Scientists Resuscitate A 5 Million-year-old Retrovirus

Posted October 29, 2006:

• Social Amoebas' Family Tree Reveals Evolutionary Clues

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