Small scale agricultural farming was first initiated by indigenous communities living on Turkey’s Anatolian plateau, and not introduced by migrant farmers as previously thought, according to new research. …read more Source:: Science
Day: March 19, 2018
First evidence of live-traded dogs for Maya ceremonies
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•Earliest evidence that Mayas raised and traded dogs and other animals — probably for ceremonies — from Ceibal, Guatemala. …read more Source:: Science
Intensification of agriculture and social hierarchies evolve together, study finds
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•Researchers analyzed the evolution of 155 Island South East Asian and Pacific societies to determine that, rather than intensification of agriculture leading to social stratification, the two evolve together. The …read more Source:: Science
At first blush, you look happy — or sad, or angry
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•Our faces broadcast our feelings in living color — even when we don’t move a muscle. That’s the conclusion of a groundbreaking study into human expressions of emotion, which found …read more Source:: Science
‘New life form’ answers question about evolution of cells
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•Bacteria and Archaea must have evolved from the putative Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA). One hypothesis is that this happened because the cell membrane in LUCA was an unstable mixture …read more Source:: Science