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Let's Play 'History As A List'
Seeded on Sat Jan 28, 2012 8:36 AM EST (NPR)
A bunch of you have sent me this list.
Study into Jersey Neanderthal mammoth hunters
Seeded on Fri Jan 27, 2012 9:44 AM EST (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)
About 30 years ago, evidence suggested early residents of what is today the island of Jersey chased wooly mammoths off the cliffs at La Cotte above Ouaisne. Dr Geoff Smith, an analyst for Jersey Archive, is undertaking a more systematic analysis of the evidence to put thi …
Human Nature and the Neurobiology of Conflict
Seeded on Thu Jan 26, 2012 9:44 AM EST (Wired News)
Science can offer new insights into how social behavior reflects -- and perhaps even shapes -- basic human biology. An very important upcoming issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B features a collection of new studies on the biology of conflict.
New study of hunter-gatherers suggests social networks sparked evolution of cooperation
Seeded on Wed Jan 25, 2012 4:26 PM EST (PhysOrg.com)
Ancient humans may not have had the luxury of updating their Facebook status, but social networks were nevertheless an essential component of their lives, a new study suggests. "The astonishing thing is that ancient human social networks so very much resemble what we see today …
Neanderthals were using paint 250,000 years ago - 'thousands of years earlier than previously thought'
Seeded on Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:50 PM EST (the Mail online)
Neanderthals were using red paint up to 250,000 years ago -- far earlier than previously thought. Traces of the paint, made from ochre, were dug up in the Netherlands and dated to a quarter of a million years ago.
How Mitochondrial Eve connected all humanity and rewrote human evolution
Seeded on Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:01 PM EST (io9)
This month marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the discovery of Mitochondrial Eve, the common ancestor of every human alive today.
Ancient domesticated dog skull found in Siberian cave: 33,000 years old
Seeded on Tue Jan 24, 2012 4:03 PM EST (Science Daily)
Man's best friend? Well, yes and no. Out history goes back more than 100,000 years ago, and our canine companions joined us only 1/3 of that time. Dogs appear to have been domesticated some 33,000 years ago.
Neanderthals and their contemporaries engineered stone tools, anthropologists discover
Seeded on Tue Jan 24, 2012 4:01 PM EST (Science Daily)
Those plucky Neandertals seem to be popping up everywhere! Well, it appears that they are we, and we are they.
The evolution of division of labor
Seeded on Tue Jan 24, 2012 1:16 PM EST (PhysOrg.com)
Division of labour is not only a defining feature of human societies but is also omnipresent among the building blocks of biological organisms and is considered a major theme of evolution.
Why screaming babies are so hard to ignore
Seeded on Tue Jan 24, 2012 11:43 AM EST (Telegraph)
Few situations are more infuriating than taking your seat on an aeroplane or train, closing your eyes, and hearing a baby at the other end of the cabin open its lungs with the gusto of an Italian tenor. But the fact that we find a screaming baby almost impossible to ignore cou …
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