Ancient Legendary Ruler’s Tomb Found
Monday, December 28th, 2009Archaeologists believe they have found a nearly 1,800-year-old tomb of legendary ruler Cao Cao.
Archive for December, 2009
Archaeologists believe they have found a nearly 1,800-year-old tomb of legendary ruler Cao Cao.
First molars provide insight into evolution of great apes, humans
Monday, December 28th, 2009(Arizona State University) The timing of molar emergence and its relation to growth and reproduction in apes is being reported by scientists at Arizona State University's Institute of Human Origins in the Dec. 28 online early edition of PNAS. They report, "We can use the same techniques to calculate ages ...
Paternity Testing Without Father and Mother? The German Company bj-diagnostik Investigates that Two babies Separately Left at Charity Institution are Siblings
Saturday, December 26th, 2009It is certainly due to personal emergency situations when parents leave behind their children at charity institutions that offer an anonymous hand over (in Germany, the "Babyklappe"), but a recent case revealed that at least one couple left behind two ...
Season’s Greetings
Saturday, December 26th, 2009Genetic Press wishes everyone a wonderful Christmas and a happy new year.
Genetic study clarifies African and African-American ancestry
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009(University of Pennsylvania) People who identify as African-American may be as little as 1 percent West African or as much as 99 percent, just one finding of a large-scale, genome-wide study of ancestry released by the Un9iversity of Pennsylvania and Cornell University.
Modern behavior of early humans found half-million years earlier than previously thought
Monday, December 21st, 2009(The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Evidence of sophisticated, human behavior has been discovered by Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers as early as 750,000 years ago -- some half a million years earlier than has previously been estimated by archaeologists.
Within a cell, actin keeps things moving
Saturday, December 19th, 2009Using new technology developed in his University of Oregon lab, chemist Andrew H. Marcus and his doctoral student Eric N. Senning have captured what they describe as well-orchestrated, actin-driven, mitochondrial movement within a single cell.Read The Full Story
Fossil find is 2009’s top breakthrough
Thursday, December 17th, 2009The discovery a "central character in the story of human evolution" is named the scientific breakthrough of 2009.
Stone Age campers set up separate activity areas
Thursday, December 17th, 2009Hominids displayed advanced organizational thinking almost 800,000 years ago
2010 preview: Arise, Neanderthal brother
Thursday, December 17th, 2009The publication of the Neanderthal genome sequence is imminent, so we may finally be able to determine if they interbred with our ancestors