Have agriculture, technology, diet and lifestyle changes put humans out of touch with the way we evolved? And would we be healthier and happier if we lived, at least to some extent, the way our Paleolithic ancestors did?

Biology - Evolution

Mar 05, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 7

(Phys.org)—A group of international ecological scientists led by the University of Adelaide have rejected a doomsday-like scenario of sudden, irreversible change to the Earth's ecology.

Space & Earth - Environment

Feb 28, 2013 3.7 / 5 (6) 9

A new genetic analysis of human lice from across the world sheds light on the global spread of these parasites, their potential for disease transmission and insecticide resistance. The results are published February 27 in ...

Biology - Other

Feb 27, 2013 4 / 5 (2) 0

(Phys.org)—Homer's great masterpieces, The Iliad and The Odyssey, have been dated to around 762 BCE by new research based on the statistical modelling of language evolution.

Other Sciences - Other

Feb 26, 2013 4.5 / 5 (2) 0

(Phys.org)—This image shows an object known as HH 151, a bright jet of glowing material trailed by an intricate, orange-hued plume of gas and dust. It is located some 460 light-years away in the constellation ...

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Feb 26, 2013 4.5 / 5 (2) 1

Forget blurry pictures and casts of big foot-prints. A Texas veterinarian, Dr Melba Ketchum, and her collaborators have published an article, in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, proving the existence of Bigfoot. ...

Other Sciences - Other

Feb 22, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 5

From sore feet to backaches, blame it on human evolution. "Because we are the only mammals to walk on two feet," says Bruce Latimer, an anthropologist from the Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine.

Biology - Evolution

Feb 15, 2013 4.7 / 5 (3) 2

(Phys.org)—Men and women socialize differently, and it turns out these gender differences hold true in online games that involve social interaction.

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

Feb 08, 2013 not rated yet 0

During recent field work in the northwestern China, Dr. WANG Shiqi, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his collaborators discovered a juvenile ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Feb 05, 2013 not rated yet 0

Researchers at the University of Florida and Oberlin College have developed a sequencing method that will allow potentially hundreds of plant chloroplast genomes to be sequenced at once, facilitating studies of molecular ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Jan 31, 2013 not rated yet 0

The evolutionary history of proteins shows that protein folding is an important factor. Especially the speed of protein folding plays a key role. This was the result of a computer analysis carried out by ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Jan 31, 2013 not rated yet 0

Research by US Forest Service scientists forecasts profound changes over the next 50 years in the summer range of the endangered Indiana bat. In an article published in the journal Ecology and Evolution, Forest Service Southe ...

Biology - Ecology

Jan 28, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

Researchers from Wits University and the University of Johannesburg in South Africa, together with international scientists announced on Tuesday, 22 January 2012, the discovery of a two million year old fossil ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Jan 23, 2013 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org)—As rapid economic expansion continues to shape the Asian landscape on which many species depend, time is running out for conservationists aiming to save wildlife such as tigers and leopards. Scientists at the ...

Biology - Ecology

Jan 16, 2013 not rated yet 0

The remarkable diversity of California's plant life is largely the result of low extinction rates over the past 45 million years, according to a new study published in the journal Evolution. Although many new species have e ...

Biology - Evolution

Jan 09, 2013 not rated yet 0