News - April, 2008

The Bone Detective Guardian (4/30/08)

Sumatran Orangutans Study for Nature's Pass/Perish Entrance Exam Christian Science Monitor (4/30/08)

United We Stand: When Cooperation Butts Heads with Competition EurekAlert (4/30/08)

Lies Are Written All Over Your Face ABC News (4/30/08)

Taking the Fire Out of Farming in Africa Christian Science Monitor (4/30/08)

Ancient "Nutcracker Man" Challenges Ideas on Evolution of Human Diet National Science Foundation (4/30/08)

• Tough Early Human Loved Fruit LiveScience (4/29/08)
• Ancient 'Nutcracker Man' Challenges Ideas on Evolution of Human Diet EurekAlert (4/30/08)
• Nutcracker Man Strangely Preferred Fruits MSNBC (4/30/08)
• Dental Microwear and Diet of the Plio-Pleistocene Hominin Paranthropus boisei PLoS ONE

How Science Gets Swiftboated MSNBC (4/29/08)

VIDEO: Terra-Cotta Army Coming to U.S. National Geographic News (4/29/08)

A Great Pox's Greatest Feat: Staying Alive New York Times (4/29/08)

Roving Defender of Evolution, and of Room for God New York Times (4/29/08)

The Ages of Man Guardian (4/29/08)

• How We Got to the Top Guardian (4/29/08)
• Continental Rift Guardian (4/29/08)
• Pieces in Our Evolutionary Puzzle Guardian (4/28/08)

Devolved Debate Battalion (4/29/08)

Heated Debate Over Who Planted First Sunflower New Scientist (4/28/08)

• Ancient Sunflower Fuels Debate About Agriculture in the Americas EurekAlert (4/29/08)
• Sunflower Debate Ends in Mexico, Researchers Say EurekAlert (4/29/08)
• Ancient Sunflower Fuels Debate About Agriculture In The Americas Science Daily (4/29/08)
• Ancient Seeds Sow Debate Over Sunflower-Farming Origins National Geographic News (4/28/08)
• Made in Mexico: Domesticated Sunflowers Los Angeles Times (5/3/08)

Envisioning a World Without Men ABC News (4/28/08)

How the Black Death Changed the World LiveScience (4/28/08)

Religion a Figment of Human Imagination New Scientist (4/28/08)

• Religion a Figment of Human Imagination ABC News (4/28/08)

Iraq Museum Reclaims 700 Stolen Artifacts National Geographic News (4/28/08)

• VIDEO: Iraq Treasures Recovered National Geographic News (4/28/08)

Japanese Royal Tomb Opened to Scholars for First Time National Geographic News (4/28/08)

Language Skills Develop at 6, Say Researchers EurekAlert (4/28/08)

Darwin Guardian

• Evolution and Darwin Guardian (4/27/08)
• What Is Life? Guardian (4/27/08)
• The Actual and the Possible Guardian (4/27/08)
• What DNA Can Tell Us Guardian (3/27/08)
• The Library of Life Guardian (4/27/08)
• What Happens When Genes Go Wrong? Guardian (4/27/08)
• The Greatest Puzzle Guardian (4/27/08)
• Wiped Out! Guardian (4/27/08)

Ancient Maya Tomb Yields "Amazing" Fabrics National Geographic News (4/25/08)

Egypt's Pyramids Packed With Seashells Discovery News (4/25/08)

Surprising Language Abilities in Children With Autism EurekAlert (4/25/08)

Volcanic Eruption Of 1600 Caused Global Disruption Science Daily (4/25/08)

Vikings Acquitted in 100-Year-Old Murder Mystery Reuters (4/25/08)

• Vikings Acquitted in Ancient Murder Mystery MSNBC (4/25/08)

Were Mesopotamians the First Brand Addicts? New Scientist (4/25/08)

Human Line 'Nearly Split in Two' BBC News (4/24/08)

• Early Human Populations Evolved Separately for 100,000 Years National Geographic Society (4/24/08)
• After Near Extinction, Humans Split Into Isolated Bands National Geographic News (4/24/08)
• Study Says Near Extinction Threatened People 70,000 Years Ago New York Times (4/24/08)
• Dawn of Human Matrilineal Diversity EurekAlert (4/24/08)
• Humans Had Brush With Extincton Discovery News (4/24/08)
• Study Says Near Extinction Threatened People 70,00 Years Ago Wired (4/24/08)
• Phew! Humans May Have Faced Extinction MSNBC (4/24/08)
• Humans 'Almost Became Extinct in 70,000 BC' Telegraph (4/25/08)
• Early Human Populations Evolved Separately For 100,000 Years Science Daily (4/25/08)
• Humanity's Brush With Extinction Los Angeles Times (4/26/08)
• The Dawn of Human Matrilineal Diversity American Journal of Human Genetics

VIDEO: Ancient Site Found in Colombia National Geographic News (4/24/08)

Tempest in a Hobbit Tooth Science (4/24/08)

• Henneberg claims about the teeth of Homo floresiensis are untrue Peter Brown

Proof That Men and Women Activate Stereotypes of Competence and Sociability Respectively EurekAlert (4/24/08)

Archaeologists Find 18th Century Log Road In Annapolis, Maryland, US ScienceDaily (4/24/08)

Buried Dogs Were Divine "Escorts" for Ancient Americans National Geographic News (4/23/08)

Brand Names 'As Old As Civilisation Itself' Telegraph (4/23/08)

Neanderthals at Mealtime: Pass the Meat Discovery News (4/23/08)

Inventor's Irrigation Pumps Help Lift African Farmers Out of Poverty EurekAlert (4/23/08)

Early Parents Didn't Stand for Weighty Kids EurekAlert (4/23/08)

Alexander the Great's "Crown," Shield Discovered? National Geographic News (4/23/08)

Germanic Invaders 'Did Not Bring Apartheid' to Anglo Saxon Britain Telegraph (4/23/08)

A Head for Social Hierarchy Science (4/23/08)

• Human Brain Appears 'Hard-Wired' for Hierarchy EurekAlert (4/23/08)

7,000 Years Older Than Stonehenge: The Site That Stunned Archaeologists Guardian (4/23/08)

Reputation and Money: New Insights Into How the Brain Processes Social, Economic Reward EurekAlert (4/23/08)

World's Rarest Gorillas Gain New Refuge National Geographic News ((4/22/08)

• Gorilla Population Up 24 Years After Genocide NPR (4/22/08)

Botswana Bushmen Refused Borehole BBC News (4/22/08)

When Language Can Hold the Answer New York Times (4/22/08)

• Want to Know More? A Reading List New York Times (4/22/08)

Oil Painting 'Invented in Asia, Not Europe' Telegraph (4/22/08)

• Ancient Buddhas Painted in Oils Nature (4/22/08)
• Ancient Buddhist Paintings From Bamiyan Were Made Of Oil, Hundreds Of Years Before Technique Was 'Invented' In Europe Science Daily (4/22/08)
• Synchrotron Light Unveils Oil in Ancient Buddhist Paintings from Bamiyan EurekAlert (4/22/08)
• Earliest Oil Paintings Discovered LiveScience (4/22/08)
• Oil Painting Appeared Centuries Earlier -- in Asia Los Angeles Times (4/26/08)

Life Expectancy Worsening or Stagnating for Large Segment of the US Population EurekAlert (4/21/08)

• Life Expectancy No Longer Improving for Large Segment of the US Population EurekAlert (4/21/08)
• Study: Women's Life Expectancy Dropping NPR (4/22/08)
• No Southern Comfort As Life Expectancy Falls New Scientist (4/22/08)
• Life Expectancy Falls in Poorer U.S. Counties: Study Reuters (4/22/08)
• Southern Women Living Shorter Lives NPR (4/24/08)
• Life Expectancy Declines for Poor Women in U.S. NPR (5/2/08)
• The Reversal of Fortunes: Trends in County Mortality and Cross-County Mortality Disparities in the United States PLoS Medicine

Slowly-Developing Primates Definitely Not Dim-witted Science Daily (4/21/08)

Indiana Jones: Saving History or Stealing It? NPR (4/21/08)

Ancient Urn Returns to Greece MSNBC (4/21/08)

Rising Sea Levels Threaten Egypt's Ancient Cities NPR (4/20/08)

Are Big Brains Smarter? LiveScience (4/18/08)

China's Terracotta Army Covered in Egg Discovery News (4/18/08)

VIDEO: Iran Bagpipes Celebrated National Geographic News (4/18/08)

VIDEO: Virtual Pompeii Created National Geographic News (4/18/08)

Ghost of Genetics Past Shows Up in Bonobos New Scientist (4/18/08)

• Ghost of Genetics Past Shows Up in Bonobos New Scientist (4/18/08)
• Analysis of Chimpanzee History Based on Genome Sequence Alignments PLoS Genetics

'Earthquake Archaeology' Blends Two Histories Discovery News (4/17/08)

• Unearthing Clues Of Catastrophic Earthquakes Science Daily (4/18/08)

Goodbye Gorilla: Vaccine Urgently Needed LiveScience (4/17/08)

Pharaoh Seti I's Tomb Bigger Than Thought National Geographic News (4/17/08)

Slowly-Developing Primates Definitely Not Dim-Witted EurekAlert (4/16/08)

Archaeologists Have Trouble Counting Great Beyond (4/16/08)

Flores 'Hobbit' Walked More Like a Clown Than Frodo New Scientist (4/16/08)

Intelligence and Rhythmic Accuracy Go Hand in Hand EurekAlert (4/16/08)

Neanderthals Speak Out After 30,000 Years New Scientist (4/15/08)

• Neanderthals Speak for First Time in 50,000 years Telegraph (4/16/08)
• Neanderthals Speak Again After 30,000 Years Reuters (4/16/08)
• Grunt Work: Scientists Re-Create Neanderthal Speech Discovery (4/16/08)
• Neanderthals Speak Again After 30,000 Years MSNBC (4/16/08)
• Neanderthals Speak Out After 30,000 Years ABC News (4/17/08)
• Neanderthals Speak Again After 30,000 Years Science Daily (4/21/08)

Cultural Identity Shown to Influence Mental Health in Adolescents EurekAlert (4/15/08)

Tip-of-the-Tongue States Yield Language Insights American Scientist (4/14/08)

Case Closed for Free Will? Science (4/14/08)

• Unconscious Decisions in the Brain EurekAlert (4/14/08)

Prayer No Guarantee Against Adultery LiveScience (4/14/08)

Science: Choosing a Mate Washington Post (4/14/08)

Bust of "Hidden" Roman Emperor Found National Geographic News (4/14/08)

Parthenon Marbles Threatened by Pollution Discovery News (4/14/08)

• Last Parthenon Marbles Threatened by Pollution: Archaeologist Yahoo (4/13/08)

Lifestyles of the Rich and Imperious in Rome NPR (4/13/08)

Peru Says Yale Has Over 40,000 Machu Picchu Relics Reuters (4/13/08)

• Will Yale Return All 40,000 Artifacts to Peru? MSNBC (4/14/08)

Archaeologist Helps Community By Keeping African Artifacts In Africa Science Daily (4/11/08)

VIDEO: Spear-Wielding Chimps Studied National Geographic News (4/11/08)

Human Mind Product of Chaotic Evolutionary Path, NYU Psychology Professor Concludes in New Book EurekAlert (4/11/08)

• Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind by Gary Marcus

Bejeweled Anglo-Saxon Burial Suggests Cult Disocvery News (4/11/08)

Police Arrest 20 for Plundering Treasures MSNBC (4/11/08)

• Spain Arrests 20 for Treasure Plunder Yahoo (4/12/08)

"Lyuba" Gives Scientists Glimpse of Mammoth Insides Reuters (4/10/08)

• Baby Mammoth Reveals Ancient Secrets MSNBC (4/10/08)
• Baby Mammoth CT Scan Reveals Internal Organs National Geographic News (4/11/08)

Why Beautiful Women Marry Less Attractive Men LiveScience (4/10/08)

Earliest Mixtec Cremations Found; Show Elite Ate Dog National Geographic News (4/10/08)

Impairments in Language Development Can Be Detected in Infants as Young as 3 Months EurekAlert (4/10/08)

Just Like Penguins and Other Primates, People Trade Sex for Resources EurekAlert (4/10/08)

Catholic Group Blasts Brazil on Indian Deaths Reuters (4/10/08)

67 Bodies Secretly Exhumed from NM Grave Yahoo (4/9/08)

A Middle East Peace Accord ... for Artifacts Science (4/9/08)

• Plan Brokered By Archaeologists Would Remove Roadblock To Mideast Peace Science Daily (4/14/08)

Researchers Suspect Stonehenge Was Ancient Healing Site MSNBC (4/9/08)

• Stonehenge Dig Turns Up New Clues MSNBC (4/10/08)

Face Values Applied to Love Game BBC News (4/9/08)

• Looking for Love or Lust? Your Face Gives It Away MSNBC (4/11/08)

'Breakthrough' at Stonehenge Dig BBC News (4/9/08)

Creationist Act Passes Another Hurdle Nature (4/9/08)

Sex? It's Written All Over Your Face Telegraph (4/9/08)

• Why the Dating Game Is Taken at Face Value EurekAlert (4/8/08)

Huge Viking Hoard Discovered in Sweden National Geographic News (4/8/08)

Vanished: A Pueblo Mystery New York Times (4/8/08)

In Remote Eskimo Villages, Pockets of Third-World Problems New York Times (4/8/08)

Scientists Find a Fingerprint of Evolution Across the Human Genome EurekAlert (4/8/08)

Deal Gives Money to Tribes to Drop Role in Fish Lawsuits New York Times (4/8/08)

Ancient DNA: Reconstruction of the Biological History of Aldaieta Necropolis EurekAlert (4/8/08)

• Ancient DNA: Reconstruction Of The Biological History Of A Human Society Science Daily (4/8/08)

Fear in the Genes Nature (4/8/08)

Technique Traces Origins Of Disease Genes In Mixed Human Populations Science Daily (4/8/08)

You Can Blame the Bugs Newsweek (4/8/08)

Plan Brokered by UCLA, USC Archaeologists Would Remove Roadblock to Mideast Peace EurekAlert (4/8/08)

Dyslexic Diversity Nature (4/7/08)

• Lost in Translation Science (4/8/08)
• Dyslexia Differs by Language Discovery News (4/8/08)
• Patterns: Dyslexia as Different as Day and Night New York Times (4/15/08)

VIDEO: Maya Discovery a Key Link? National Geographic News (4/7/08)

Ancient Stone Tools Found on Australia Mine Site Reuters (4/7/08)

• Keeping African Artifacts in Africa EurekAlert (4/7/08)
• Ancient Tools Unearthed in Australia MSNBC (4/8/08)
• Ancient Knives Unearthed in Australia Discovery News (4/7/08)
• Ancient Tools Found in Australia National Geographic News (4/8/08)

Reflecting on the Social Implications of Human Genetics Research -- Past, Present and Future EurekAlert (4/7/08)

How Gunpowder Changed the World LiveScience (4/7/08)

Amazon's ‘Forest Peoples' Seek a Role in Striking Global Climate Agreements New York Times (4/6/08)

Subordinate Monkeys More Likely to Choose Cocaine Over Food EurekAlert (4/6/08)

Deadly Ape Heart Disease Puzzles Zoos MSNBC (4/5/08)

• Robust Gorillas Mysteriously Dying in Zoos MSNBC (4/6/08)
• Mystery of Rising Ape Heart Disease ABC News (4/8/08)

Male Monkeys Prefer Boys' Toys New Scientist (4/4/08)

• Boys and Their Toys? It's Biological, Not Social Telegraph (4/7/08)

Swedes Find Viking-Era Arab Coins BBC News (4/4/08)

'Ruthlessness Gene' Discovered Nature (4/4/08)

Prehistoric Cultures Were Hunting Whales At Least 3,000 Years Ago Science Daily (4/4/08)

• Russian-American Research Team Examines Origins of Whaling Culture EurekAlert (4/4/08)

Pre-Clovis Breakthrough Archaeology (4/3/08)

• Fossil Faeces Pinpoint Earliest North Americans Nature (4/3/08)
• Fossilised Poo from Oldest American People Found Telegraph (4/3/08)
• Fossilized Feces Tell Tale of Earliest Americans NPR (4/3/08)
• Faeces Hint at First Americans BBC News (4/3/08)
• Fossil Feces Is Earliest Evidence of N. America Humans National Geographic News (4/3/08)
• Poop Fossil Pushes Back Date for Earliest Americans Discovery News (4/3/08)
• First Americans Left Fossil Stools in Cave Latrine New Scientist (4/3/08)
• The Voyage to America EurekAlert (4/3/08)
• Pre-Clovis Human DNA Found In 14,300-year-old Feces In Oregon Cave Is Oldest In New World Science Daily (4/3/08)
• New Evidence of Earliest North Americans ABC News (4/3/08)
• Experts use poop to date first North Americans MSNBC (4/3/08)
• Humans in North America Earlier Than Thought Los Angeles Times (4/4/08)
• Human Traces Found to Be Oldest in N. America Washington Post (4/4/08)
• Evidence Supports Earlier Date for People in North America New York Times (4/4/08)
• New Evidence of Earliest North Americans Wired (4/4/08)

Cultural Biases May Influence Parenting Studies, Scientist Finds EurekAlert (4/3/08)

How the Aztecs Could Count Hand on Heart Telegraph (4/3/08)

• How Aztecs Did the Math Nature (4/3/08)
• Amazing Aztecs Were Math Whizzes Too LiveScience (4/3/08)
• Aztec Math Decoded, Reveals Woes of Ancient Tax Time National Geographic News (4/3/08)
• Aztecs Were Whizzes at Math MSNBC (4/3/08)
• Aztecs Devised Sophisticated Arithmetic System Reuters (4/3/08)
• Aztec Math Finally Adds Up Los Angeles Times (4/4/08)

DNA Tests May Solve Mystery of Last Czar's Heirs MSNBC (4/3/08)

High-Tech Tomb Hunter Finds Unmarked Graves for a Living Wired News (4/3/08)

Chimps with Spears Captivate Photographer NPR (4/2/08)

Indigenous Peoples Hardest Hit by Climate Change Describe Impacts EurekAlert (4/2/08)

Were Assyrian Rulers the Forefathers of Today's CEOs? EurekAlert (4/2/08)

• Is Globalization as Old as the Earth? Science Daily (4/2/08)

Darwin Was Right: Natural Selection Speeds Up Speciation Science Daily (4/2/08)

L.A. Clinic Offers Care for Mayas Los Angeles Times (4/2/08)

Monkeys Eavesdrop on Neighbours' Orgasmic Cries New Scientist (4/2/08)

Babies 'Are Natural Born Statisticians' Telegraph (4/1/08)

Yale Study Suggests Evolutionary Source of Alcoholism's Accidental Enemy EurekAlert (4/1/08)

• Brain DNA 'Remodeled' in Alcoholism EurekAlert (4/1/08)
• Natural Selection Protected Some East Asian Populations From Alcoholism, Study Suggests Science Daily (4/2/08)
• Some Asians Families in US Choosing Sons ABC News (3/31/08)

Humans Were Final Cause of Woolly Mammoth Extinction Telegraph (4/1/08)

• Humans Drove Final Nail into Mammoth Coffin National Geographic News (4/1/08)
• Humans in the Clear Over Mammoth Extinction? New Scientist (4/1/08)
• Study Sheds Light on Woolly Mammoth Demise Reuters (4/1/08)
• Humans Drove Mammoths to Their Doom MSNBC (4/1/08)
• Dig Begins at Stonehenge Site Discovery News (4/1/08)
• Climate Change, Then Humans, Drove Mammoths Extinct National Geographic News (4/1/08)

Monkeys Were the First Doctors Telegraph (4/1/08)

Why Do We Have Fingernails? LiveScience (4/1/08)

Cleopatra's Suicide by Snake a Myth? Discovery News (4/1/08)

Menopause Stops Female Competition Telegraph (3/31/08)

Excavation Starts at Stonehenge BBC News (3/31/08)

• Scientists Set Out to Unlock Secrets of Stonehenge Reuters (3/31/08)
• Archaeologists Start Stonehenge Dig ABC News (3/31/08)
• Will Stonehenge Ever Tell Us Its Age? MSNBC (3/31/08)
• Dig Begins at Stonehenge Site Discovery News (4/1/08)
• The Lourdes of Ancient Britain? Dig Aims to Reveal Stonehenge's Purpose Guardian (4/1/08)
• Stonehenge Dig a Threat to Journalists Nature's Great Beyond (4/2/08)
• Rare Stonehenge Dig Aims to Pinpoint Origin National Geographic News (4/2/08)

Human DNA Discoveries Piling Up Discovery News (3/31/08)

• Sweeps of Human DNA Yield Discoveries ABC News (3/31/08)
• Sweeps of Human DNA Yield Discoveries Wired (3/31/08)

Muslims "Overtake" Catholics, Become Largest Religion National Geographic News (3/31/08)

Great Ape Trust to Gather Internationally Recognized Scientists for Decade of the Mind III EurekAlert (3/31/08)

Babies Have an Eye for Statistics Nature (3/31/08)

Gold Necklace Reveals Early 'Bling' Nature (3/31/08)

• Americas' Oldest Gold Artifact Discovered National Geographic News (3/31/08)
• Ancient Gold Necklace Discovered in Peru ABC News (3/31/08)
• Oldest Gold Artifact in Americas Found LiveScience (3/31/08)
• Ancient Gold Necklace Discovered in Peru MSNBC (3/31/08)
• Necklace Is Oldest Gold Artifact in the Americas Reuters (3/31/08)
• Oldest Known Gold Artifacts In The Americas Discovered Science Daily (4/1/08)
• Oldest Bling Found in Peru Discovery News (4/1/08)
• Gold Necklace Found Is 'Oldest in Americas' Telegraph (4/1/08)
• Necklace Is 'Oldest in Americas' BBC News (4/1/08)
• From a Burial Pit in Southern Peru, a Golden Oldie New York Times (4/1/08)
• VIDEO: Oldest Gold Jewelry in Americas National Geographic News (4/2/08)
• Necklace Is Oldest Gold Artifact Found in Americas Los Angeles Times (4/5/08)