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POPSEgalitarian revolution in the Pleistocene? In humans, a secondary transition from egalitarian societies to hierarchical states took place as the first civilizations were emerging. How can it be understood in terms of the model discussed? One can speculate that technological and cultural advances made the coalition size much less important in controlling the outcome of a conflict than the individuals' ability to directly control and use resources (e.g. weapons, information, food) that strongly influence the outcomes of conflicts.
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POPSHow human are chimps? Sigh..all to human sad to say. Seems they have all of our dubious qualities anyway. Didn't clip the pix very well, but if you like,can go to site and click on green thingys.
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POPS“Junk DNA” May Have Triggered Key Evolutionary Changes in Human Thumb and Foot A rapidly evolving sequence from the human genome drives gene activity in the developing thumb, wrist and ankle of mouse embryos, suggesting the sequence may have contributed to key evolutionary changes in the human limbs that allowed us to walk upright and use tools. An indication of their biological importance, many of these non-coding sequences have remained similar, or “conserved,” even across distantly related vertebrate species such as chickens and humans. Recent functional studies suggest some of these “conserved non-coding sequences” control the genes that direct human development.
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POPSUT Policeman kills Tony the Escaped Chimp The team with the tranquilizer darts didn't really get a chance to save Tony. The policeman was afraid and fired repeatedly to kill. Too bad the police didn't back off and let the Comparative Medicine Team do their thing and save Tony.
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POPSAnimal Communication Dr. Marler has contributed a wealth of information about animal communication, cognition and social biology. He has lead a very interesting life.
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POPSFind Sounds Now here is a GREAT time waster.If you can't amuse yourself here,you don't belong in grade school :)
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POPSArtificial Intelligence and Society We act like our tiny little corner of mindspace is the whole universe. We think of the scale of intelligence as if it ran from a village idiot to Einstein, rather than running from an amoeba up to humans. On the scale of interspecies differences of intelligence–if you are comparing yourself to a mouse–then the distance between a village idiot and Einstein fits onto a small dot. You might be able to tell the difference between a village idiot and an Einstein, but a chimpanzee would have a bit of trouble administering the IQ test.
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POPSTop 10 Archaeological Discoveries of 2007 This is Archaeology Magazine's Top 10 list - mine would be a little different. If you visit source site, there are more discoveries of 2007 which didn't make it into the magazine's list but proposed by scholars.
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POPSWheeeeeeee! Chimp-a-whirl: Tatyana Tretinnikova has the best job at the Royev Ruchey Zoo in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia -- monkey swinger. Although, technically, 2-year-old Tisha is a chimpanzee.
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