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2009

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More than a jump to the left

Study on memory for dance moves discovers substantial cross-cultural diversity in human cognition

If your dancing instructor asked you to step left,…

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Evidence that Priming Affiliation Increases Helping Behavior in Infants as Young as 18 Months

In a new study in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, Harriet Over and Malinda Carpenter of Germany’s Max…

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„Fish on the Menu“

Human Evolution

The isotopic analysis of a bone from one of the earliest modern humans in Asia, the 40,000 year old skeleton from Tianyuan Cave in the Zhoukoudian…

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„One million people for Apes“

More than 20 000 people from all over the world have already signed the Manifesto for Apes and nature (mAn) which was launched on 4 April 2008 in…

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"You will give birth in pain": Neanderthals too

Human Evolution

The virtual reconstruction of a Neanderthal woman’s birth canal reveals insights into the evolution of human child birth.

Researchers from the…

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Mangabey monkeys follow others into the unknown

Over a period of 10 years an international team of researchers led by Karline Janmaat of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary…

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Neanderthal genome completed

The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and 454 Life Sciences Corporation have completed a draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome

The…

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