Anthropology News

Posted May 23, 2006:

• How Ancient Whales Lost Their Legs, Got Sleek And Conquered The Oceans

Posted May 19, 2006:

• Scientists Scuttle Claims That 'Hobbit' Fossil From Flores, Indonesia, Is A New Hominid

Posted May 18, 2006:

• Human And Chimp Genomes Reveal New Twist On Origin Of Species

Posted May 17, 2006:

• Coral Reef Reveals History Of Fickle Weather In The Central Pacific

Posted May 13, 2006:

• Massive Duplication Of Genes May Solve Darwin's 'Abominable Mystery' About Flowering Plants

Posted May 10, 2006:

• Evolutionary Forces Explain Why Women Live Longer Than Men

Posted May 3, 2006:

• Mobile DNA Part Of Evolution's Toolbox

Posted May 1, 2006:

• UCLA Egyptologists To Launch New E-encyclopedia

Posted April 30, 2006:

• A Site To Be Seen: Ancient Earthworks Electronically Rebuilt, To Become A Traveling Exhibit

Posted April 29, 2006:

• New Evidence Suggests The Need To Rewrite Bronze Age History

Posted April 26, 2006:

• Kennewick Man Skeletal Find May Revolutionalize Continent's History

Posted April 22, 2006:

• Ancient DNA Provides Clues To The Evolution Of Social Behavior

Posted April 16, 2006:

• Chimpanzees And Humans Have Gene Variant, For Different Reasons

Posted April 14, 2006:

• Researchers Trawl The Origins Of Sea Fishing In Northern Europe

Posted April 13, 2006:

• Separate Genetic Mutations Gave People, Chimps Bitter-taste Sensitivity
• Hominid Fossils From Ethiopia Link Ape-men To More Distant Human Ancestors

Posted April 6, 2006:

• Newly Found Species Fills Evolutionary Gap Between Fish And Land Animals

Posted April 5, 2006:

• Clues To African Archaeology Found In Lead Isotopes

Posted March 30, 2006:

• Why Are Letters And Other Human Visual Signs Shaped The Way That They Are?

Posted March 7, 2006:

• First Amazon-Andean Crop Plant Transfer And Corn Processing In Peru 3600-4000 Years Ago

Posted March 4, 2006:

• A New Tree Of Life Allows A Closer Look At The Origin Of Species

Posted March 1, 2006:

• The Evolution Of Right- And Left-handedness

Posted February 28, 2006:

• Joining The Hunt: New Study Investigates Role Of 'Showoff Hypothesis' In Social Decisions
• Life, The Remake

Posted February 23, 2006:

• Scientists Reveal Ancient Origin Of Vertebrate Skeleton In Unlovable Lamprey

Posted February 22, 2006:

• There's Something Fishy About Human Brain Evolution

Posted February 21, 2006:

• 'Kelp Highway' May Have Helped Peopling Of The Americas
• AAAS Denounces Anti-evolution Laws As Hundreds Of K-12 Teachers Convene

Posted February 20, 2006:

• Early Human Ancestors Walked On The Wild Side

Posted February 13, 2006:

• Early California: A Killing Field -- Research Shatters Utopian Myth, Finds Indians Decimated Birds

Posted February 12, 2006:

• Find In Egypt Promises More 'Wonderful Things'

Posted February 10, 2006:

• New Analysis Shows Three Human Migrations Out Of Africa

Posted February 1, 2006:

• Archaeologists Find Evidence Of Earliest African Slaves Brought To New World

Posted January 31, 2006:

• Archaeologists Uncover One Of Biggest Medieval Graveyards

Posted January 26, 2006:

• Pitt Professor's Theory Of Evolution Gets Boost From Cell Research

Posted January 25, 2006:

• Humans Have A Strong Desire To Help Each Other, But Is Spite Also Part Of The Human Condition?

Posted January 24, 2006:

• UNC Charlotte Linguist Restores Lost Language, Culture For 'The New World'

Posted January 19, 2006:

• New Study Reveals Neanderthals Were As Good At Hunting As Early Modern Humans

Posted January 17, 2006:

• Nearly Half Of Ashkenazi Jews Descended From Four 'Founding Mothers'

Posted January 13, 2006:

• Donner Party Cannibalism Legends Remain Unproven

Posted January 6, 2006:

• Researchers Discover Greek Temple In Albania Dating Back To 6th Century B.C.
• Redating Of The Latest Neandertals In Europe

Posted January 4, 2006:

• The First Baby Boom: Skeletal Evidence Shows Abrupt Worldwide Increase In Birth Rate During Neolithic Period

Posted December 27, 2005:

• Dwarfs Commanded Respect In Ancient Egypt

Posted December 26, 2005:

• New Study Shows Animal Family Tree Looking Bushy In Places

Posted December 22, 2005:

• Scientists Narrow The Time Limits For The Human And Chimpanzee Split

Posted December 20, 2005:

• Why We Give: New Study Finds Evidence Of Generosity Among Our Early Human Ancestors

Posted December 16, 2005:

• Earliest Evidence For Large Scale Organized Warfare In The Mesopotamian World

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