Stories indexed under: Anthropology
Total: 4
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Genome study places modern humans in the evolutionary fast lane
Dec. 10, 2007
Countering a common theory that human evolution has slowed to a crawl or even stopped in modern humans, a new study by UW-Madison researchers examining data from an international genomics project describes the past 40,000 years as a time of supercharged evolutionary change.
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Family, memories at core of anthropologist’s new book
Dec. 5, 2007
A UW-Madison anthropologist first decided to write a book about her family when she was 10 years old, a decision she made while growing up in Bombay, the child of an American mother and an Indian father.
- Tool-wielding chimps provide a glimpse of early human behavior Nov. 12, 2007 Chimpanzees inhabiting a harsh savanna environment and using bark and stick tools to exploit an underground food resource are giving scientists new insights to the behaviors of the earliest hominids who, millions of years ago, left the African forests to range the same kinds of environments and possibly utilize the same foods.
- Curiosities: Why do we have fingernails? May 21, 2007