Posts Tagged ‘humans’

Signs of Life

Friday, September 20th, 2013
methane, mars, nasa, curiosity, cosmic, comets, martians, microbes, microbial, life, earth, rivers, routes, early, humans, migration, out of africa

Buried ancient rivers and missing martians– our Friday round-up of science headlines!

Spicy!

Wednesday, August 21st, 2013
pottery, cooking, humans, spices

When did food start to taste good?

A Bone to Pick

Wednesday, August 14th, 2013
bones, humans, neanderthals, max planck, tools, tool-making

Maybe we ought to rethink those cavemen jokes– new evidence finds sophisticated Neanderthal tools that pre-date human arrival.

Mouse Memories

Monday, July 29th, 2013
mice, mouse, brain, memories, fake, false, humans, optogenetics

Scientists are implanting false memories into mice to determine how humans create them.

Early Human Diets

Tuesday, June 4th, 2013
humans, hominins, Zeray Alemseged, teeth, diet, australopithecus, afarensis, dikika, ancestors, plants, homo, anthropology

The old saying “You are what you eat” takes on new significance in the most comprehensive analysis to date of early human teeth from Africa.

Au. Sediba and our Family Tree

Monday, April 15th, 2013
humans, hominins, apes, fossils, skeleton, teeth, dental, sediba, africanus, afarensis, australopithecus, lucy, selam, zeray alemseged

Hominin fossils shake up the family tree!

Sweet Potato Travelers

Tuesday, January 29th, 2013
sweet potatoes, polynesian, humans, explorer, archeology

What genetic differences in sweet potatoes can tell us about human movement.

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