With a little help from our ancient friends
Hadza offer strong new evidence that social networks are a truly ancient, perhaps integral part of the human story.
Ancient humans may not have had the luxury of updating their Facebook status, but social networks were nevertheless an essential [...]
DNA tracks ancient Mediterranean farmers to Scandinavia
DIGGING FARMERS Hunter-gatherer skeletons excavated in Sweden, including these remains of a young woman, have provided genetic evidence that these groups mated with nearby farmers who arrived from southern Europe around 5,000 years ago.Goran [...]
Act Big: Dare to See – Kaia Stern – Harvard Thinks Big
Kaia Stern Director of the Prison Studies Project Professor at Harvard Divinity School Professor in Sociology at Harvard University
How Social Networks are Like Carbon – Nicholas Christakis – Harvard Thinks Big
Nicholas Christakis Professor of Sociology (FAS) and Professor of Medical Sociology (Harvard Medical School) and and Professor of Medicine (Harvard Medical School)
Lionel Tiger – God’s Brain | For Good Reason
Lionel Tiger, Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University, talks about how religion takes place in brains, and not just in churches, temples and mosques. He explains how the brain created religion, and how religion feeds the [...]
The brain looks at the bright side of things
A recent study found that when making predictions, people tend to cling to good news and ignore the bad. Credit: istockphoto
From love and health to money matters, studies show that people tend to look on the bright side of many situations. [...]
Greenland cold snap linked to Viking disappearance
A cold snap in Greenland in the 12th century may help explain why Viking settlers vanished from the island, scientists said on Monday.
The report, reconstructing temperatures by examining lake sediment cores in west Greenland dating back 5,600 [...]
Could this be site of Neanderthals’ last stand?
Tools found in frigid far north of Russia’s Ural Mountains suggest it may be
A Neanderthal-style tool kit found in the frigid far north of Russia’s Ural Mountains dates to 33,000 years ago and may mark the last refuge of Neanderthals [...]
Fossil FInding: A clue for the vertebrates evolution
A new-found fossil reveals the soft body of a 500-million-year-old undersea creature. Hemichordate Galeaplumosus abilus may provide clues to the evolution of vertebrates like us.
Exquisitely-preserved soft body parts found in a 525 million year [...]
Prehistoric Cemetery Reveals Man and Fox Were Pals
Before dog was man’s best friend, we might have kept foxes as pets, even bringing them with us into our graves, scientists now say.
This discovery, made in a prehistoric cemetery in the Middle East, could shed light on the nature and [...]
