News About The Human Species 05-NOV-09 en-us 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.]]> San Francisco (AFP) Oct 20, 2009 - "Borderlands," a videogame brimming with weaponry and battle, hit North America on Tuesday.]]> Geneva (AFP) Oct 19, 2009 - Twenty years after the international community expanded the frontiers of protection for children, child carers and officialdom are slowly venturing into uncharted territory: cyberspace.]]> Los Alamos NM (SPX) Oct 14, 2009 - A Los Alamos National Laboratory geologist is part of an international research team responsible for discovering the oldest nearly intact skeleton of Ardipithecus ramidus, who lived 4.4 million years ago. The discovery reveals the biology of the first stage of human evolution better than anything seen to date.]]> Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 14, 2009 - For 1200 years, the Maya dominated Central America. At their peak around 900 A.D., Maya cities teemed with more than 2,000 people per square mile - comparable to modern Los Angeles County.]]> Paris (AFP) Oct 6, 2009 - Remember what it was like, a dozen years or so ago, when you tried to communicate with someone on the other side of the world?]]> San Francisco (UPI) Oct 6, 2009 - U.S. psychologists say they've determined the primary role of consciousness is to resolve competing demands on skeletal muscles.]]>