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• Men Are Far More Likely to Abandon a Seriously Ill Spouse

  
  80beats — Authority: 652
  It started as an observation in a Seattle cancer ward, where oncologist Marc Chamberlain noticed that his male patients were often receiving steadfast support from their wives, while his female patients often didn’t have husbands hovering at their bedsides. Based on this anecdotal evidence, Chamberlain decided to ...
  2 days ago

• Long-ago rainy Sahara

  
  The Thinking Meat Project — Authority: 115
  When our long-ago ancestors left east Africa and spread to Europe, how did they get across the currently forbidding landscape of the Sahara? A recent analysis of Saharan plants shows that two peaks in the water-dependent plant population, indicating more favorable climate conditions, might have made human passage ...
  4 days ago

• The most influential species of all evolution

  
  NatGeo News Watch — Authority: 429
  As we observe the 150th anniversary this month of the first publication of Charles Darwins On the Origin of Species , a new book reviews evolution and ranks the top one hundred most influential species of all time. Homo sapiens is not at the top of the list. In fact, we humans, who like to imagine that we ...
  1 week ago

• Lesson of the Ancient Nazcas: Deforestation Can Kill a Civilization

  
  80beats — Authority: 652
  From an ancient Peruvian civilization comes this warning: Don’t chop down all your trees, or there will be hell to pay. The Nazca people are famous for the enormous earthworks they carved into an arid plateau, in designs that range from simple geometrical forms to representations of animals like hummingbirds, ...
  1 week ago

• Did we love Neandertals? Did they love us?

  
  Writer's Daily Grind — Authority: 119
    Sometime late last week, a story started circulating  around various science news feeds, that went something like this:  "Neandertals had sex with humans".  The source of these headlines(and news stories with lots of speculation) was Svante Pääbo , a paleogenetics specialist at the Max Planck Institute in ...
  2 weeks ago

• New primate fossil casts doubts on "missing link" claim

  
  NatGeo News Watch — Authority: 429
  A 37-million-year-old fossil primate from Egypt, described in this weeks issue of  Nature , moves a controversial German fossil known as Ida out of the human lineage, Nature News reports. "Teeth and ankle bones of the new Egyptian specimen show that the 47-million-year-old Ida, formally called Darwinius ...
  3 weeks ago

• Much-Hyped Primate Fossil “Ida” Probably Isn’t Our Ancestor

  
  80beats — Authority: 652
  Surprise, surprise. An independent analysis of the primate fossil that was unveiled amid extraordinary hype last May has found significant evidence that the lemur-like creature was not a direct ancestor of humans, after all. The 47-million-year old fossil described in May, which was given the scientific name ...
  3 weeks ago

• We’re not done yet

  
  The Thinking Meat Project — Authority: 115
  It’s easy to wonder to what degree humans are still subject to natural selection; from the perspective of someone living in an industrialized western nation, it can look like everyone gets to live long enough to reproduce and can successfully raise their offspring to adulthood. Of course, in some parts of the world, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Scientist Smackdown: Did a Comet Explode Over Prehistoric North America?

  
  80beats — Authority: 652
  A ccording to a theory proposed in 2007, the explosion of a comet over North America killed off the Clovis people and many of the continent’s largest mammals nearly 13,000 years ago. Not so fast, says a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , fueling a WWE-style stare ...
  3 weeks ago

• Did Monogamy Begin 4.4 Million Years Ago?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 160
  Archaeologist Peter Bogucki has written that, "Archaeology is very much constrained by what the modern imagination allows in the range of human behavior." A glaring example of this constrained thinking was published in one of the worlds leading scientific journals last week. A very prominent anthropologist with the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Did Monogamy Start 4.4 Million Years Ago?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 160
  Archaeologist Peter Bogucki has written that, "Archaeology is very much constrained by what the modern imagination allows in the range of human behavior." A glaring example of this constrained thinking was published in one of the worlds leading scientific journals last week. A very prominent anthropologist with the ...
  4 weeks ago

• “Ardi” sheds new, exciting light on our evolution

  
  Very Serious — Authority: 435
  Click here to view the embedded video. Dr. Tim White et al. have been working on the analysis of Ardipithecus ramidus for the past 15 years. The news they announced yesterday is groundbreaking. Watch the video to find out more!
  6 weeks ago

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