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Mississippi is set to vote on an amendment that would reportedly affirm that all fertilized eggs are people and make the destruction of an embryo murder, and the debate between those in favor of the measure and those in opposition to it is beginning to escalate, various media outlets reported Friday. According to an article written by Gary Pettus of The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Mississippi and published by USA Today, over a dozen religious leaders spoke out against Initiative 26, also...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31, 2011 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- In what ways are technology and social media impacting both the individual and society itself in parts of Africa and Asia? What is different about the impact of new gadgets and technology (social media, the Web, videogames, cell phones) and the impact of Industrial Age technologies (television, telephones, and automobiles)? Are the new gadgets exporting the cultures of the wealthier nations that developed them to the less-developed nations...
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Culture is not a trait that is unique to humans. By studying orangutan populations, a team of researchers headed by anthropologist Michael Krützen from the University of Zurich has demonstrated that great apes also have the ability to learn socially and pass them down through a great many generations. The researchers provide the first evidence that culture in humans and great apes has the same evolutionary roots, thus answering the contentious question as to whether variation in behavioral...
Adaptation to upright walking leaves humans susceptible, Case Western Reserve University study shows Osteoporosis is blamed for backbone fractures. The real culprit could well be our own vertebrae, which evolved to absorb the pounding of upright walking, researchers at Case Western Reserve University say. Compared to apes, humans have larger, more porous vertebrae encased in a much thinner shell of bone. The design works well until men and women age and suffer bone loss, leaving them...
Archaeologists said they have discovered the U.K. mainland's first intact Viking boat burial site in the west Highlands. Archaeologist Dr Hannah Cobb said in a press release that the "artifacts and preservation make this one of the most important Norse graves ever excavated in Britain". The term "fully-intact" means the remains of the body along with objects buried with it and evidence of the boat used were found and recovered. The Ardnamurchan Viking was found buried with an axe, a...
(Ivanhoe Newswire) – Physical stature affects people’s preferences in political leadership. The study reveals that a preference for physically formidable leaders may have evolved to ensure survival in ancient human times. The study focused on evolutionary psychology, the study of universal human behavior which is related to psychological mechanisms which evolved to solve problems faced by humans in ancient history. "Some traits and instincts that may have been acquired through...
New assessments by researchers using the latest high-tech tools to study the diets of early hominids are challenging long-held assumptions about what our ancestors ate, says a study by the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Arkansas. By analyzing microscopic pits and scratches on hominid teeth, as well as stable isotopes of carbon found in teeth, researchers are getting a very different picture of the diet habitats of early hominids than that painted by the physical...
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