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Few Clues About African Ancestry To Be Found In Mitochondrial DNA
October 12, 2006 — Mitochondrial DNA may not hold the key to your origins after all. A study published today in the open access journal BMC Biology reveals that fewer than 10 percent of African American mitochondrial ... > full story -
Compelling Evidence Demonstrates That 'Hobbit' Fossil Does Not Represent A New Species Of Hominid
October 9, 2006 — What may be the definitive most interdisciplinary work in a debate that has been raging in palaeoanthropology for two years will be published in Anatomical Record. The new research comprehensively ... > full story -
Humble Shoelace Tag Carried More Currency Than Gold On Columbus's Travels
October 3, 2006 — The humble device that prevents shoelaces from fraying was deemed to be worth more than gold by the indigenous Cubans who traded with Columbus's fleet, a study led by UCL (University College London) ... > full story -
New Study Explores Role Of Theater In Maya Political Organization
October 2, 2006 — Magnificent stone sculptures of Classic Maya culture (AD 250-900) have long fascinated archaeologists and the general public alike. But what did the scenes depicted in these monuments mean in their ... > full story -
Silver Anomalies Found In Jerusalem Pottery Hint At Wealth During Second Temple Period
September 27, 2006 — Scientists with the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Bar-Ilan University have discovered unusually high concentrations of silver in samples of many ... > full story -
Earliest Baby Girl Ever Discovered: Australopithecus Afarensis Child Sheds Light On Human Evolution
September 20, 2006 — Some 3.3 million years ago, a three-year-old girl died in present day Ethiopia, in an area called Dikika. Dubbed "Lucy's Baby", she provides researchers with a unique account of our past. Her ... > full story -
Researchers Find Evidence Of The Earliest Writing In The New World
September 14, 2006 — A stone block discovered in the Olmec heartland of Veracruz, Mexico, contains the oldest writing in the New World, says an international team of archaeologists, including Stephen D. Houston of Brown ... > full story -
Modern Humans, Not Neandertals, May Be Evolution's 'Odd Man Out'
September 8, 2006 — New research at Washington University in St. Louis suggests that rather than the standard straight line from chimps to early humans to us with Neandertals off on a side graph, it's equally valid, ... > full story -
How Did Our Ancestors' Minds Really Work?
September 8, 2006 — How did our evolutionary ancestors make sense of their world? What strategies did they use, for example, to find food? Fossils do not preserve thoughts, so we have so far been unable to glean any ... > full story -
Social Imitation In Neonatal Monkeys
September 4, 2006 — Humans do it. Chimps do it. Why shouldn't monkeys do it, too? Mimicry exists throughout the animal kingdom, but imitation with a purpose -- matching one's behavior to others' as a form of social ... > full story
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