by Christine Kenneally BH | Sep 5, 2007 | Demographics
Earlier this year, Rod Stewart married model Penny Lancaster, promising to love and honor the latest version of his eerily uniform young-blonde-wife prototype. The new Mrs. Stewart is younger than Stewart’s own young daughter, and at this rate, it’s hard...
by Christine Kenneally BH | Sep 3, 2007 | Africa, Climate, Prehistoric humans
Between 135,000 and 70,000 years ago, the east African climate was highly unstable and subject to megadroughts. In the worst droughts, Lake Malawi had less than 15% of the water it has today. Crucially, around 70,000 years ago, the climate changed and became wetter...
by Christine Kenneally BH | Sep 1, 2007 | Baboons, Parsing, Social complexity/connection
The intricate ways humans connect with one another to co-create reality help explain the origin of language and culture in some very interesting ways. Most recently, Robert Seyfarth and Dorothy Cheney published Baboon Metaphysics, exposing the layers of social...
by Christine Kenneally BH | Aug 31, 2007 | Ancient genomics, Neandertals
Over the last year, two separate groups of researchers have been trying to sequence the Neandertal genome using DNA from the same fossil. An independent team assessed both group’s analyses and announced this week that there were worrying inconsistencies between...
by Christine Kenneally BH | Aug 28, 2007 | Gorillas
Nine teeth from an ancient gorilla have been unearthed in Ethiopia. The ten-million-year-old molars and canine suggest that the human line split from these apes even longer ago than we thought. The newly discovered gorilla fills a gap in the otherwise blank primate...
