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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 -
Fire engineers of the Stone Age: Africans heated stones for toolmaking 72,000 years ago
Stone Age toolmakers didn't need motivational speakers to get fired up at work. People living on the southern tip of Africa 72,000 years ago...
Science News, 09/12/09 by Bruce Bower · More from publication -
Morality play: universal concerns, not cultural values, may shape kids' developing notions of right and wrong
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A 10-year-old Chinese boy listens intently as a visiting researcher...
Science News, 09/12/09 by Bruce Bower · More from publication -
Crows use sticks, stones to show skills at manipulating tools in lab: birds' problem-solving ability turns out to be no fable
Crows have an unspoken motto: Sticks and stones may break my bones, but they sure can come in handy. Two new studies unveil the ability of at least...
Science News, 08/29/09 by Bruce Bower · More from publication -
2-year-olds don't talk in sentences but can still tell nouns from verbs: new brain study suggests that toddlers know basic grammar
Two-year-olds know more about grammar than they can say. Budding toddlers recognize the difference between nouns and verbs in simple sentences,...
Science News, 08/01/09 by Bruce Bower · More from publication -
Ancient Andean civilization likely spurred by maize: farming the crop may have led to an early state society
Prehistoric communities in one part of Peru's Andes may have gone from maize to amazingly complex. Bioarchaeologist Brian Finucane's analyses of...
Science News, 08/01/09 by Bruce Bower · More from publication
