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Study Sheds Light On Evolution Of Human Complexity Houston TX (SPX) Nov 05, 2009 
A painstaking analysis of thousands of genes and the proteins they encode shows that human beings are biologically complex, at least in part, because of the way humans evolved to cope with redundancies arising from duplicate genes. "We have found a specific evolutionary mechanism to account for a portion of the intricate biological complexity of our species," said Ariel Fernandez ... read more'Technology' Plays Large Role In Wealth Inheritance 
Santa Fe AZ (SPX) Nov 04, 2009A new study reveals the important role inherited wealth plays in sustaining economic inequality in small scale societies. A team of 26 anthropologists, statisticians, and economists based at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico amassed an unprecedented data set allowing 43 estimates of a family's wealth inheritance and found that financial inequality among populations largely depends on the "tec ... more
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New Evidence Of Culture In Wild Chimpanzees
Fife, UK (SPX) Oct 28, 2009A new study of chimpanzees living in the wild adds to evidence that our closest primate relatives have cultural differences, too. The study, reported online in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, shows that neighboring chimpanzee populations in Uganda use different tools to solve a novel problem: extracting honey trapped within a fallen log. Kibale Forest chimpanzees use sticks to ... more African leaders adopt landmark refugee convention 
Kampala (AFP) Oct 23, 2009African leaders on Friday adopted a convention -- billed as the first of its kind worldwide -- on the protection of the 17 million people on the continent who have fled their homes. The convention, which is legally binding, requires member states to provide special assistance for displaced people with special needs, including the elderly, and calls for the prevention of forced displacement. ... more Heavily armed "Borderlands" videogame hits US 
San Francisco (AFP) Oct 20, 2009"Borderlands," a videogame brimming with weaponry and battle, hit North America on Tuesday. It takes aim at the rest of the world on Friday. The title developed by Gearbox Software and published by 2K Games combines one-on-one challenges, solo play, and online team options with a wasteland planet setting and lots of guns. "Borderlands" contains automated weapon generating software ... more Parents, care groups venture into children's digital limbo 
Geneva (AFP) Oct 19, 2009Twenty years after the international community expanded the frontiers of protection for children, child carers and officialdom are slowly venturing into uncharted territory: cyberspace. Since November 1989, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child has gradually been adopted by 193 countries in a bid to protect children from abuse. But child welfare groups and ... more |
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Study: Man did not evolve from apes
Kent, Ohio (UPI) Oct 1, 2009 A U.S. biological anthropologist says he's determined humans did not evolve from apes, but, rather, apes evolved from humans. Kent State University Professor C. Owen Lovejoy, who specializes in the study of human origins, said his findings came from a study of Ardipithecus ramidus, a hominid species that lived 4.4 million years ago in what now is Ethiopia. "People often think we ... more Prince Philip blasts supermarkets, second-home owners 
London (AFP) Sept 30, 2009Prince Philip has taken a pot shot at supermarkets and second-home owners who he says are threatening the traditional British village, in remarks published Wednesday. In an interview with Shooting Times magazine, the notoriously straight-talking Duke of Edinburgh also blasted industrial farming methods, which produced cows with horns like a "hat-rack with an udder attached." They also ... more Tajik migrants divorce by SMS, causing grief at home 
Dushanbe (AFP) Sept 25, 2009Nodira knew that life would be difficult when her husband left their home in Tajikistan for a job packing lorries in distant Russia, but they had two children and needed the money to survive. What she never imagined was that their marriage would end, not with a bang or even a whimper, but with the tinny beep of a message on the inbox of her mobile phone. "Talaq, talaq, talaq" -- three ... more Study: Mobile infants ID looming danger 
Trondheim, Norway (UPI) Sep 24, 2009 Norwegian scientists say they have determined mobile infants have established neural pathways that can identify looming danger. Professor Ruud van der Weel and Audrey van der Meer of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology say they determined infants' ability to see whether an object is approaching on a direct collision course, and when it is likely to collide, develops ... more |
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