News About The Human Species 20-NOV-09 en-us Champaign, Ill. (UPI) Nov 16, 2009 - A University of Illinois study of pedestrian safety has found using a cell phone while walking can endanger one's health.]]> New Delhi (AFP) Nov 16, 2009 - India's 1.16 billion people are each to receive their own identity number under a monumental plan designed to cut corruption and improve distribution of state benefits.]]> Fort Hood, Texas (AFP) Nov 10, 2009 - US President Barack Obama led a tearful memorial service Tuesday for victims of the Fort Hood massacre, saying "no faith" could justify the "murderous and craven" shootings.]]> Washington (AFP) Nov 9, 2009 - US pressure groups joined forces Monday to urge authorities to spend more to improve Americans' health and cut greenhouse gas emissions.]]> Berlin (UPI) Nov 6, 2009 - When the Berlin Wall fell on Nov. 9, 1989, Mario Roellig sat in his West Berlin apartment and was sobbing in despair.]]> Tokyo (AFP) Nov 5, 2009 - Most eyewear improves vision or cuts through solar glare, but a new gadget from Japan may soon sharpen linguistic skills and cut down language barriers instead, inventors said Thursday.]]> 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.]]> Santa Fe AZ (SPX) Nov 04, 2009 - A 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 "technologies" that produce a people's livelihood.]]> Fife, UK (SPX) Oct 28, 2009 - A 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.]]> Kampala (AFP) Oct 23, 2009 - African 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.]]>