Topic: Anthropology
Wael Ghonim, the Google executive who became a hero of Egypt's anti-government uprising, has signed a deal with a US publisher to write a book, "Revolution 2.0."Houghton Mifflin Harcourt said Monday that it has secured the rights to Ghonim's book, which it ...
The Nukak-Maku tribe, nomads discovered only 23 years ago who number no more than 600, is struggling to adapt after Colombian guerrillas chased them from their homes deep inside the country's lush tropical forests."Llego la plata" ("the money is coming"), someone murmured ...
More than 2000 times as massive as the blast that ripped open Mount St. Helens in 1980, the Indonesian " super-volcano" Toba ejected millions of metric tons of volcanic ash, sulfur, and other debris into the atmosphere 74,000 years ago. To address ...
According to the documentary " The Quest for Immortality" our universal and existential dread of death is a prime motivator for much of our behavior. According to Earnest Becker's Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Death Denial," one of the way humans find meaning in ...
In other news of the ancient past, fossil eggs found in South Africa in 1976 contain the oldest known dinosaur embryos, belonging to a species that lived 190 million years ago, researchers reported last week.. Finally, scientists said that a warm spell ...
The Egyptians knew of the existence of the Pygmies; Pepi II Neferkare, last king of the 6th dynasty (c. Since then, many aspects of the behaviour, ecology, and growth and demography of the Bambuti and their villager neighbours have been studied by ...
Homo sapiens is now crammed into virtually every habitable region of Earth, yet our species still bears the hallmarks of its origin as a tiny population inhabiting one small corner of the world. Homo sapiens appears to be a typical product of ...
Dr. Price received much criticism for his research and findings and was labeled " According to Dr. Price criminal behavior as well as slowed mental ability have a direct link to the degenerative aspects found in modern food, he states "The evidence ...
The Nature Conservancy This outfit protects the lands and waters of more than 30 countries, including the United States, Indonesia, and Panama. Reading Is Fundamental This group hands out free books and runs courses that promote literacy in all 50 states. Doctors ...
The first peoples to farm Europe were not the hunter-gatherers that roamed the continent more than 8,000 years ago, but Middle Eastern populations that moved in, according to a study of ancient DNA. "We have finally resolved the question of who the ...
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