Anthropology

Last Neanderthals Met Their Demise 37,000 Years Ago

Based on new radiocarbon dating evidence for the Late Aurignacian of Portugal, an archaeological culture unquestionably associated with modern humans,  an international team of researchers claims that the last Neanderthals in Europe died out approximately ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 27 2010 - 1:05pm

Systematic Infant Sacrifice At Carthage A Myth- Study

An analysis of the skeletal remains found in Carthaginian burial urns could finally lay to rest the millennia-old conjecture that the ancient empire of Carthage regularly sacrificed its youngest citizens. An examination of the remains of Carthaginian child ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 17 2010 - 1:20pm

Scientists Recount How DNA Enriches Our Understanding Of Human History

In recent years, DNA evidence has added important new tools for scientists studying the human past, and a collection of reviews published in a recent issue of Current Biology offers a timely update on how new genetic evidence, together with archaeological ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 22 2010 - 1:04pm

The Return Of Karl Popper: Is Social Science Really Different Than Natural Science?

Social Scientist have contended for much of the last century that we cannot approach the study of human behavior with the same tools that we would use to study the natural world.  This is hogwash.  And I think Karl Popper, the great 20th century philosophe ...

Article - Nicholas Horton - Mar 8 2010 - 11:48am

Your Ancestors in 3D

The Smithsonian Magazine (one of the highest quality science magazines out there) has some great pictures of various hominins by sculptor John Gurche. Go take a look at the past 4 million years of human evolution, from Australopithecus afarensis to Homo he ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Mar 9 2010 - 11:07am

What Should We Do About Climate Change? What Our Ancestors Did

In order to learn how modern societies can adapt to the changes caused by global warming, scientists are working in the Arctic regions of St. James Bay, Quebec, northern Finland and Kamchatka to understand how humans living 4,000 to 6,000 years ago reacted ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 11 2010 - 12:46pm

'Modern' Humans Appeared On Iberian Peninsula 34,000 Years Ago- Study

New archaeological evidence recovered at Cova Gran de Santa Linya (Southeastern PrePyrenees, Catalunya, Spain) suggests that 'modern humans' first appeared on the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle/Upper Palaeolithic transition, according to res ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 15 2010 - 1:01pm

Markets And Religious Beliefs- Why Strangers Cooperate

Researchers have long been puzzled by large societies in which strangers routinely engage in voluntary acts of kindness and respect even though there is often an individual cost involved. Evolutionary forces associated with kinship and reciprocity can expl ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 19 2010 - 12:11pm

Autism Chalkboard frozen in time

As old autism people like me, that came out kind of ok and missed Rain Man Era Politics met each other online to compare notes on our different kind of human thought process that has never been in a book before was highlighted. Our default thoughts are NO ...

Blog Post - Rich Shull - Apr 11 2010 - 12:53pm

The Animal That Amplifies Itself

The Animal That Amplifies Itself Amplify: to make a thing bigger or more powerful. The characteristic that most distinguishes humans from our animal cousins is not the use of tools.  Nor is it the use of language.  Many animals use twigs or stones as tool ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 19 2010 - 11:11am