Tuesday, August 29, 2006

hooray for science

Source: (http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/human-evolution)

some of the more interesting articles:


Ancient jewellery points to early origins of language
The discovery of 100,000-year-old shell beads suggests that human language was already well advanced and must have developed earlier than we thought

Muggings were rife in New Stone Age
The first systematic survey of early Neolithic British skulls reveals that life was more violent than anyone expected

Human brains enjoy ongoing evolution
New variants of two brain-development genes have swept through the human population during the last several thousand years, biologists reveal

Free trade may have finished off Neanderthals
Homo sapiens may have driven the previously successful species to extinction by embracing the new concepts of specialisation and trading

Did early humans socialise to avoid getting eaten?
Simulations provide more evidence that hominids may have adapted cooperative behaviours to avoid being eaten by other animals



i couldn't get that last link posted but it's at the bottom of the main page.

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