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Size doesn't matter for Hadza mates; Western stereotypes don't apply to forager group in Tanzania
Unlike most Western guys and gals looking for love, Africa's Hadza foragers pair up without regard to each other's size and strength, a new study...
Science News, 12/01/09 by Bruce Bower · More from publication -
Newborns cry in mom's language: French, German infants wail with melody of native tongue
Only days after birth, babies have a bawl with language. Newborn babies cry in melodic patterns that they have heard in adults' conversations...
Science News, 12/01/09 by Bruce Bower · More from publication -
Aping the stone age: chimp chasers join artifact extractors to probe the roots of stone tools
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For chimpanzees living in a forest surrounding the village of Bossou in Guinea, cracking nuts is a serious task with...
Science News, 11/21/09 by Bruce Bower · More from publication -
Monkey moms have their own kind of baby talk: macaques smack their lips to exchange emotional cues
Rhesus macaque mothers and their babies like to get in each others' faces, exchanging looks and smacking lips. They're not rude or hungry. Just as...
Science News, 11/07/09 by Bruce Bower · More from publication -
A blind path to childhood autism: infants born without sight may have more social difficulties
WALTHAM, Mass. -- Being born into a world of darkness provides an unappreciated avenue to autism, researchers reported October 2. Within the...
Science News, 11/07/09 by Bruce Bower · More from publication -
Ancient hominids get a new look with analysis of ardipithecus fossil: fossils suggest creature didn't resemble any living primate
It's been 4.4 million years since a female now nicknamed Ardi lived in eastern Africa, but she still knows how to make an entrance. Analyses of...
Science News, 10/24/09 by Bruce Bower · More from publication -
Mental disorders more widespread than estimated: study comes as psychiatrists reevaluate diagnostic manual
Some mental disorders aren't merely common--they're the norm. Depression, anxiety disorders, alcohol dependence and marijuana dependence affect...
Science News, 10/10/09 by Bruce Bower · More from publication -
Girls but not boys may be primed for arachnophobia, ophidiophobia: fear of crawly, slithery things could begin before first birthday
Gut-wrenching fears of snakes and spiders may start early for many women. Before their first birthdays, girls but not boys adeptly learn to link...
Science News, 09/26/09 by Bruce Bower · More from publication -
From baby scientists to a science of social learning
Developmental psychologist Andrew Meltzoff codirects the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle. In...
Science News, 09/26/09 by Bruce Bower · More from publication -
Deprived of any external cues, people go round: feedback errors accumulate as walkers try to go straight
In one scene of the 1999 movie The Blair Witch Project, three film students searching for a legendary creature hike for hours only to end up at the...
Science News, 09/12/09 by Bruce Bower · More from publication
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