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• Old Europe Advanced Earlier than other Known Civilizations

  
  Newsvine - JCAtom's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 130
  Before the glory that was Greece and Rome, even before the first cities of Mesopotamia or temples along the Nile, there lived in the Lower Danube Valley and the Balkan foothills people who were ahead of their time in art, technology and long-distance trade.More Articles
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• Don’t Feed The Caveman

  
  Popular Fidelity — Authority: 546
  There’s an unusual new exhibit in a Warsaw, Poland zoo.  However, it’s only going to be on display until Sunday, so if you want your kids to see this rare creature, you’d better hurry.  The prehistoric beast on display?  Why, it’s the humble Homo sapiens, or human being.  That’s right, there’s a zoo ...
  17 hours ago

• 45 SNP universal genetic identification

  
  Dienekes' Anthropology Blog — Authority: 421
  Forensic geneticists currently use the highly polymorphic CODIS microsatellite markers for DNA sample identification. This paper shows that a unique DNA id for a human can be achieved by a panel of 45 SNPs. Human Genetics doi:10.1007/s00439-009-0771-1 SNPs for a universal individual identification panel Andrew ...
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• Caged cavemen go on display at zoo

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 168
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Visitors to Warsaw’s zoo are being greeted by two “Homo sapiens” peering out from a cage — humans in animal skins trying to spark interest in man’s caveman ancestors.
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• Why, When and How to give Kid Allowance?

  
  3stepADS - Free Advertising Blog — Authority: 585
  Do you supplement allowances with spending money? Spending money is the cash you give your children to spend on a particular thing or event. You shell out $15 for the ticket and popcorn. If you supply spending money, then maybe allowances shouldn’t be so generous. Of course, you are looking after entertainment costs ...
  3 days ago

• oh when the saints (oh when the saints) go marching in (go marching in)

  
  "ain't" ain't a problem — Authority: 112
  On early Monday afternoon I was late for Italian. I got a sandwich. I sat down to eat it and heard the U marching band outside, so I checked it out. Pep rally! Whatever. So I got a hot dog and a coke and some chips and decided to be about an hour late to my two-hour-long class. She let them out an hour early, so ...
  5 days ago

• Genetic Variation and Recent Positive Selection with 1 million SNPs

  
  Dienekes' Anthropology Blog — Authority: 421
  On the left Figure S4 shows PCA and frappe analysis for Eurasia. From the paper: When just the Central/South Asia, Middle East, North Africa, and European groups are analyzed, PC1 (Fig. S4A) distinguishes the Mozabite (North Africa), Middle East, and Europe groups from the Central/South Asian groups, while PC2 ...
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• Endangered Species Vs Cultural Tradition

  
  Colleen Anderson — Authority: 420
  Our world is in trouble in a lot of ways and anyone, whether an individual or a government, who denies this is practicing the head in the sand technique. Overfishing has caused the closing of fisheries in numerous countries, caribou herds are threatened, whales are on the endangered list , rhinos and tigers and other ...
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• A Brief Prehistory Lesson

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 507
  A Brief PreHistory Lesson by Lew Sethics Wolf  calls a meeting with Man: “Look” he says, “you need us: you can’t hunt for shit, you got no claws, your teeth are useless in a fight, you can’t outrun anything, your sense of smell is a joke, your women and children slow you down. We’ll make a deal: ...
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• Y chromosome diversity, human expansion, drift, and cultural evolution (Chiaroni et al. 2009)

  
  Dienekes' Anthropology Blog — Authority: 421
  The supplementary material has some very interesting maps of the distribution of all major Y-chromosome haplogroups, and lists the geographical centroids with the standard deviations of all haplogroups. For example, the centroid of haplogroup J is in the Mediterranean sea between Greece, Cyprus, and Turkey, while ...
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• He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Bro?

  
  A Feather Adrift — Authority: 128
  The next time you call your husband a Neanderthal, you might be accurate. Actually not. Just kidding. Genetic testing tends to suggest that in the human genome there is little if any trace of the Neanderthal in us. But that doesn’t negate that he was a close relative albeit now extinct. Let me explain. Nova has ...
  1 week ago

• Legendary human-hungry Tsavo lions: not that hungry

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 589
  Their reputation of being man-eating ferocious animals precedes them most of the time, making them tourist-drawing museum pieces. However, the famed Kenyan duo of man-eating lions may not really be that human-hungry. The infamous Tsavo lions credited with 135 kills ate just 35 humans, making them not as ravenous as ...
  2 weeks ago

• Nature’s ‘Deselection’ Engine Revving Up!

  
  Fire Earth — Authority: 136
  submitted by a blog contributorThought for the Day:You may be undergoing natural ‘deselection’ processes at such phenomenal rates you cannot imagine!Are you insane?Following the wrong road map?Your systems too inflexible? Organizations burdensome?Your methods unsustainable? Do your schemes fly in the face of ...
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• Humans, as predators, have duty to control coyotes

  
  Wildlife and People — Authority: 110
  By Dick Dekker, PhD, Edmonton wildlife ecologist, The Edmonton Journal, November 9, 2009 [ here ] “Coyotes Kill Young Singer Hiking on Nova Scotia Trail” was a headline in The Edmonton Journal of October 29. This shocking news story was followed by an almost equally shocking headline, but then in a very ...
  2 weeks ago

• Discovering Our True Diversity

  
  The Woo Woo Teacup Journal — Authority: 128
  I’ve made a decision. I’m no longer going to fill out the race/ethnicity/culture question on surveys anymore. You know, the question that asks you to indicate whether you are White or Caucasian or Hispanic or Latino or African-American or Asian American or Pacific Islander or Native American or whatever other ...
  3 weeks ago

• soapbox

  
  "ain't" ain't a problem — Authority: 112
  Im going to get on my soapbox about a word I cant stand. Its the word "soapbox". More specifically, its the circumstances under which the word is used - and thus, the connotation it has - that I cant stand. So far as Ive observed, the word is nearly always employed when someone knows the advice he/she is offering is ...
  3 weeks ago

• Tinkering, Playing, and Learning

  
  The End in Mind — Authority: 92
  John Seely Brown is visited the BYU Campus today and gave a compelling talk about Homo sapiens , Homo faber , and Homo ludens . Essentially, he argues that the formal education focuses almost exclusively on the Homo sapiens notion of “man as knowledge,” attempting to fill students with information and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Why the F**k do I bother? I will not even be here to see the final destruction of my Folk. But I do.

  
  Swindon Nationalists — Authority: 116
  It is foretold that within the next twenty years, or less, the indigenous peoples of the British Isles, those descendents of the Northern European Folk who have lived here since the Last Ice Age will be drastically outnumbered demographically by the Muslims who are at present welcomed at an alarming and exponentially ...
  3 weeks ago

• Are Hip Hapa Homeez Obsolete?

  
  Watermelon Sushi World — Authority: 107
  Yo, Hip Hapa Homeez! Welcome back to Watermelon Sushi World, your planet for discussion of all things pertaining to biracials, blendies, FGM’s, hapas, MGM’s, mixies, mulattos, multiracials and transracial adoptees. Did we leave anyone out? Or, are we all obsolete anyway? This ...
  3 weeks ago

• A LESBIAN ON BLOGCATALOG

  
  REAL LIBERAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH — Authority: 128
  A lesbian over on BlogCatalog started a discussion entitled, "Gays & Lesbians of Faith," as a device for attracting homosexuals of all "faiths" to participate in a documentary film shes planned. It garnered some questions about homosexuality in general. I left a second comment there that follows and that is ...
  3 weeks ago

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