Inside a Caveman's Barbeque Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News Aug. 27, 2007 â€" Either modern humans were in Israel over 200,000 years ago, or our now-extinct...
PLoS ONE. 2007 Aug 29;2(8):e785. Why men matter: mating patterns drive evolution of human lifespan. Tuljapurkar SD, Puleston CO, Gurven MD. Department of...
japan today Girl injured at zoo after chimpanzee throws stone at her Tuesday, August 28, 2007 at 13:48 EDT NAGOYA â€" An 8-year-old girl sustained a minor...
... Yep, the press is strenuously avoiding the topic of CNV (copy number variation in the human genome,) despite the 43-author Nature paper on the topic, and...
... number ... confirmed ... I don't know if you're a geneticist, Dan, so maybe you are looking at something deeper than I realize, but I think the difference...
Hi John, Thanks for your response. My reply is below. ... I'm not a professional geneticist, but I read about the subject. I wouldn't describe my knowledge...
For those who may not have seen it yet, here's another article, this one on the social situation surrounding CNV: Implications of copy-number variation in the...
... http://www.brainatlas.org/aba/2006/060615/full/nrg1884.shtml ... Well, I can see one consequence of CNV - in proving a man's innocence using DNA, it should...
... http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-12/iu-hdm121806.php ... Well, the number of genes in the CNV article was much less than this, I think....
Hi John, ... The Nature CNV paper spells it out in lengthy form, but here's a concise distillation: New human gene map shows unexpected differences 22 Nov 2006...
John, Thinking about the knockout mice still being viable, maybe these ultra- conserved elements have longer-term effects. I'm reminded that some gene...
J Hum Evol. 2007 Sep 4; The Laetoli footprints and early hominin locomotor kinematics. Raichlen DA, Pontzer H, Sockol MD. Department of Anthropology,...
Curr Biol. 2007 Sep 4;17(17):R775-6. Ape society: trading favours. Byrne RW. Centre for Social Learning and Cognitive Evolution & Scottish Primate Research...
... I am sick of those not-cognitively-demanding conclusions. The brain of animals developed for so many HUNDRED million years. Chimp brain went through all...
I call it 'the myth of the miracle mind'. Humans are animals. And they have the brain of an animal. And the fact that some animals are more intelligent than...
... Ok, Marcel, I understand your reasoning. To explain my position step by step. The first step would be just what you wrote. Some animals can be less than...
In my 2002 paper, Primate Encephalization and Intelligence, which can be downloaded in the files section of this forum, I defined biological intelligence as:...
... Note: This conclusion seems unlikely, as some extreme cases of small brains in humans (such as Dr. Lorber's research, and some more recent research as...
... First I must correct my previous post. In the word "bear" you have to replace one sign (I will not tell you which sign, and I will not tell you with which...
You are absolutely correct. Totally inapropriate research method. One cannot use human-specific "mirror neuron" / non-verbal communication clues to draw the...
Gibbons and monkeys are both intelligent animals. But they are not intelligent enough to recognize that the reflective image that they see in a mirror-- is...
Any animal that's not intelligent enough to recognize itself as a distinct individual is really not that intelligent. Humans, dolphins, elephants and great...
Letter abstract Nature Genetics Published online: 9 September 2007 | doi:10.1038/ng2123 Diet and the evolution of human amylase gene copy number variation ...
BBC NEWS Starch 'fuel of human evolution' Man's ability to digest starchy foods like the potato may explain our success on the planet, genetic work suggests. ...
Was ability to run early man's Achilles heel? 11 Sep 2007 The earliest humans almost certainly walked upright on two legs but may have struggled to run at even...
Thanks Anne, interesting. I wonder if cliff climbing could be analyzed as well. Is the achilles tendon highly significant in near-vertical climbing? Mario has ...
I would suggest that gibbons, unlike the other mammals listed, have no functional benefit from self recognition in a mirror or water surface, since they have...
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