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Meet The Relatives: The Neanderthals
A LITTLE BIT OF CAVEMAN LURKS IN MOST OF US, SAY SCIENTISTS who've mapped out the genomes of Neanderthals who lived more than 38,000 years ago in Croatia.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 05/10 11:37pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 05/10 11:37pm
Book addict studies violence
When he was a youngster, one of Herbert Gayle's teachers told him the way out of the poverty in which he and his family lived was through reading. Gayle, who was already a precocious chap, listened to his teacher and became hooked on books.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 05/10 11:36pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 05/10 11:36pm
Forensic Anthropologist “Digging” for Answers to 37-year old Murders
When Dr. Sharon Derrick was a teenager she watched the horror of Houston's Mass murders unfold on her family's television in Austin, Texas. She watched, as the world did, Houston and Pasadena police detectives remove one body after another from a boat storage shed in southwest Houston.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 05/10 11:35pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 05/10 11:35pm
The Cavemen Among Us
Neanderthals and modern humans were neighbors way back when. But was there more to their relationship? Apparently so. Scientists reconstructing the genome of Neanderthals say the species most likely had a dalliance or two in the Middle East 60,000 to 100,000 years ago.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 05/10 11:34pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 05/10 11:34pm
You Are What You Eat
The old axiom is proved appetizingly true yet again this weekend, as the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology presents the Food and Life Series.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 04/30 11:21pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 04/30 11:21pm
Stray Questions for: Hugh Raffles
Hugh Raffles, a professor of anthropology at the New School, is the author of “Insectopedia,” reviewed in the Book Review this weekend.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 04/30 11:15pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 04/30 11:15pm
DNA identifies 'new ancient human'
Scientists say that DNA taken from an ancient finger bone found in a Siberian cave may belong to a previously unknown type of pre-human.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 04/04 1:07am
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 04/04 1:07amJob Search Like an Anthropologist
My long track record in journalism is built on studying people on two fronts: I need to learn what matters to the subjects and readers of the stories I write and edit, and (like everybody managing a career) I need to get a read on what matters to my colleagues at every tier of the corporate hierarchy.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 04/04 1:04am
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 04/04 1:04am
Inca Skeletons Show Evidence of Spanish Brutality
If bones could scream, a bloodcurdling din would be reverberating through a 500-year-old cemetery in Peru. Human skeletons unearthed there have yielded the first direct evidence of Inca fatalities caused by Spanish conquerors.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 04/04 1:04am
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 04/04 1:04amMargaret Mead, 1901-1978: A Public Face of Anthropology
Many consider her the most influential social science researcher of the 20th century. Yet some experts say her research depended too much on observation and local stories.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 01/18 11:17pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 01/18 11:17pmAnthropology museum to reopen
Vancouver: 51,000 square feet have been added in the $55-million renovation
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 01/18 11:16pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 01/18 11:16pm