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Geotimes
May 2006
Megan Sever |
Hobbit's Species Status in Question A new study this week says that the hobbit, an 18,000-year-old diminutive hominid found in 2004 on the Indonesian island of Flores, should have never been called a new species, and that it instead is most likely a modern human with a brain abnormality.   |
Geotimes
August 2006
Jennifer Yauck |
Hobbit Was Pygmy, Scientists Say The latest study to weigh in on the Homo floresiensis controversy says that the so-called hobbit is not a new hominid species, but rather a pygmy human with an unknown developmental abnormality. |
Geotimes
December 2005 |
Highlights 2005 -- Paleontology The "Great Dying" debate... Tracking human migration... More "hobbits" in Indonesia... T. rex bones break ground... An evolving debate... |
Geotimes
June 2006
Megan Sever |
Found: One of Many Missing Human Links Researchers working in Ethiopia recently uncovered bones and teeth from one of many previously missing links in the hominid family tree. The newly found remains, researchers say, connect two well-known hominid species that are separated by 1 million years. |
Geotimes
April 2005
Laura Stafford |
New Evidence for the Earliest Hominid Scientists say they have new evidence confirming that Toumai, a skull found in the deserts of Central Africa, is a new hominid species -- the oldest known to date. |
Geotimes
December 2006 |
Top Paleontology News Stories of 2006 Filling in hominid gaps... On the hominid migration trail... Probing into fossil details... Evolution back in schools?... etc. |
Scientific American
July 2009
Charles Q. Choi |
Being More Infantile May Have Led to Bigger Brains Genetic evidence suggests that juvenile traits helped separate chimps from us |
Geotimes
September 2007
Kathryn Hansen |
Controversy in the Cradle of Humankind East Africa indeed has much heritage to protect, as the region has been a hotspot for paleoanthropologists trying to understand the evolutionary relationships between early hominins since at least the 1950s. |
Scientific American
August 2005
Kate Wong |
Footprints to Fill Flat feet and doubts about makers of the 3.6-million-year-old Laetoli footprints, thought to have been made by Australopithecus afarensis. |
Geotimes
January 2007
Katherine Unger |
Hominid Teeth Reveal a Broad Palate The early hominid Paranthropus robustus may have lost out to various species in the genus Homo in the evolutionary path that gave way to modern humans, but the species' failure can't be blamed on picky eating. |
Bio-IT World
February 11, 2005
Kevin Davies |
Bioinformatics on the Brain Adaptive selection: accelerated mutation rate produced humans' large brain. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2011
Sarah C.P. Williams |
Nourishing Neural Stem Cells with CSF Inside your skull, your brain is floating in a clear liquid. This liquor cerebrospinalis, or cerebrospinal fluid, until recently was considered simply cushioning for the brain. |
Geotimes
March 2005
Megan Sever |
Mother Lode of Hominid Fossils Researchers excavating in Ethiopia have recently discovered the remains of nine individual hominids from the Early Pliocene, thus helping scientists understand more of the human evolution puzzle. |
Scientific American
January 9, 2006
Philip E. Ross |
Half-Brained Schemes If halving the brain of an epileptic child can suppress debilitating seizures without interfering with the development of normal intellectual abilities, what's all that gray matter good for, anyway? |
D-Lib
October 2001 |
Comparative Mammalian Brain Collection The Comparative Mammalian Brain Collection web site provides site visitors with images and information from several of the world's largest collections of well-preserved, sectioned and stained brains of mammals... |
Wired
August 2001
Jennifer Kahn |
Let's Make Your Head Interactive The Human Brain Project is combining wet anatomy with next-gen scanning, imaging, and networking to give neuroscience a revolutionary new tool -- the globally accessible online mind... |
Registered Rep.
August 1, 2005
Ruth Halcomb |
Tame Your Inner Lizard An interview with Terry Burnham, a former economist at Harvard who applies biology to the financial markets, says the problem is that the human brain was shaped in the Pleistocene era, back when humans had to forage for food, sabotaging our investing instincts. |
Scientific American
July 2006
Blake Edgar |
Standing Up to Dance and Sing How we became hominid, then human.. These books explore our origins. The First Human: The Race to Discover our Earliest Ancestors by Ann Gibbons... The Singing Neanderthals: The origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body by Steven Mithen. |
Outside
November 2002
Neal Thompson |
Strengthen the Muscle Between Your Ears True fitness follows the adage "Use it or lose it." Turns out the brain follows the same rule. Here's a two-part approach to brain development -- physical and mental -- which you can effortlessly incorporate into your existing workout plan. |
Popular Mechanics
January 28, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
Fringe Fact v. Fiction: Could Your Brain Actually Turn to Goo? In its 12th episode, Fringe brought back one of the all-time greatest, grossest sci-fi horrors: Liquefied brains. |
Smithsonian
February 2005
Lawrence M. Small |
From the Secretary - Our Adaptable Ancestors Recent discoveries of skull fragments and tools testify to the resourcefulness of early humans. |
Scientific American
February 13, 2006
Kate Wong |
Food for Thought Huge molars and chewing muscles enabled robust australopithecines to make mincemeat of shellfish instead of tough plant foods, a new theory posits. |
Science News
October 2, 2004 |
Skeptical Brains A link to a site dedicated to showcase recent media misinterpretations of brain studies. |
Scientific American
March 2009
Michelle Press |
Scientific American Reviews: Why You Are Not Your Brain Also: books on monks and monkeys and miraculous anticipation |
Wired
February 25, 2008
David Wolman |
A Researcher's Puzzles Point to the Differences in the Autistic Brain Some scientists are setting aside the assumption that autistic brains are defective and instead focusing on how the autistic brain is different. |
National Defense
October 2010
Stew Magnuson |
Scientists Hope Bomb Blast Research Can Lead to Better Helmets Scientists are now taking a closer look at exactly what a shockwave does in the milliseconds it takes for it to pass through a helmet, skull and brain. |
Geotimes
April 2005 |
Redating the Earliest Humans Now 40 years later, researchers have pushed back the ages of Homo sapiens uncovered in the Omo Valley of Ethiopia to 195,000 years ago from the original date of 130,000. |
Wired
March 23, 2009
Jonah Lehrer |
Scientists Map the Brain, Gene by Gene I'm in the dissection room of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, and the scientist next to me is in a hurry. |
Entrepreneur
January 2006
Mark Henricks |
Gray Matters As science unlocks more and more of your brain's secrets, learn how harnessing the power of your greatest asset can create a more productive, more persuasive, more competitive business. |
PC Magazine
September 27, 2006 |
But Can It Flip People Off? This robotic hand can play against you in a game of rock-paper-scissors. |
Popular Mechanics
July 7, 2008
Erik Sofge |
For Future of Mind Control, Robot-Monkey Trials Are Just a Start A study in the journal Nature this spring all but confirmed the latest evolution in the hard-charging, heady field of cybernetics: Monkeys can control machines with their brains. |
PC Magazine
July 4, 2008
Logan Kugler |
Understanding the Brain As much as we know about the human brain, there's just as much we don't know. |
PC Magazine
April 19, 2006 |
Bits & Bites v25n08 How fast does your brain process information? This website will tell answer that question. |
