Computer analysis shows scientists could reconstruct the genome of the mammalian common ancestor
...ay to think about our origins, a kind of DNA-based archaeology to understand how we came to be," said Haussler, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator and director of UCSC's Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering. Haussler and Mathieu Blanchette, a postdoctoral researcher at UCSC who is ...PNAS highlights for the week of April 11 - 15
...question, Todd Surovell and colleagues examined 41 archaeology sites--ranging from 1.8 million years to 10,000 years ago,on five continents--that showed humans and elephants living together in the same place and time. By comparing age and location of the siteswith early human migration trends, the researchers fo...National Academies news: 72 new members chosen by academy
...t, and Professor Faculty of Letters, department of archaeology and art history, University of Istanbul (Turkey) RAPPUOLI, RINO ; head of research of IRIS, Chiron Research Institute, and vice president, vaccine research, Chiron Corp., Siena (Italy) ROMO, RANULFO ; professor of neuroscience, Instituto de Fisiolo...Human impacts on natural systems is topic of National Science Foundation forum
...hydrologic change in the Everglades; and combining archaeology and ecology in desert grasslands. The LTER network comprises 26 field sites located primarily in the United States, but with a geographic span from the Arctic and Antarctic to the tropics. The sites represent Earth's major ecosystems, and include des...FSU Etruscan expert announces historic discovery at ancient site
...f Classics at FSU and director of the university's archaeology programs in Italy. Within the building, de Grummon...mmond and Erika Simon, another expert in classical archaeology who served as the Langford Family Eminent Scholar in Classics at FSU in 1999, was published last spr......pecies announcement are, according to Alan Thorne, archaeology and natural history, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, commonly found in Australian and Tasmanian crania. Dental configuration also can be used to designate a new species. The original researc...Genetic archaeology offers clues to backstory of male pregnancy
EAST LANSING, Mich. A bit of genetic archaeology is giving clues to one of the greatest gender bending mysteries in the world of fish: How did a family of fish come to embrace male pregnancy" A new gene discovered in the gulf pipefish hints that an old gene busy with kidney and liver function may...Researchers unearth 4,300-year-old chimpanzee technology
... same nuts available did not? It might be that the archaeology of chimpanzees will produce more surprises in the future." Adds Dr. Alison Brooks, a research associate at the Smithsonian Institution and professor of anthropology at George Washington University: "The first non-human archaeological site of consi...Red hot chili pepper research spices up historical record
...rchers who had gathered at a University of Calgary archaeology conference began comparing notes about an unidentified starch they had recovered from sites around Latin America. Dr. Linda Perry, the lead author of the paper and a researcher with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, subsequently ide...Practice of farming reaches back farther than thought
...the most hotly debated issues in the discipline of archaeology is how and why certain human societies switched from hunting and gathering to producing their own food through agriculture. Dr. Ruth Dickau, a post-doctoral researcher in the U of C's department of archaeology, has used a new technique called starch ...Manchester to spearhead 8.3 million particle physics project
...hird area will look at possible applications, from archaeology to zoology. ...Smithsonian scientists connect climate change, origins of agriculture in Mexico
...perno, curator of archaeobotany and South American archaeology at the Smithsonians National Museum of Natural His...arch assistants at STRI; Jose Iriarte, lecturer in archaeology at the University of Exeter in England; Matthew Lachinet, assistant professor at the University of N......ceptibility to modern-day HIV "is a lot like doing archaeology -- figuring out how humans have become who we are today and why we are or are not susceptible to modern viruses that presently circulate," Emerman said. In fact, this emerging area of research, which seeks to better understand modern infections by st...