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1. News - World - EVOLUTION

   Lack of brainpower for socialising may have wiped out Neanderthals

   Posted Mar 14th 2013, 12:00am by AFP

   ... News World Evolution Agence France-Presse Neanderthals' bigger eyes and bodies meant they had less brain space to dedicate to social networking, which may explain why they died out and Homo sapiens conquered the planet, a study said yesterday. An enigmatic branch of the human family tree, Neanderthals lived in Europe, Central Asia and Middle East for up to 300,000 years, ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1189956/lack-brainpower-socialising-may-have-wiped-out-neanderthals
2. News - World - SCIENCE

   Asians, native Americans descended from same group, DNA analysis shows

   Posted Jan 24th 2013, 12:00am by AFP

   ... of the leg's owner. "This individual lived during an important evolutionary transition when early modern humans, who shared certain features with earlier forms such as Neanderthals, were replacing Neanderthals and Denisovans, who later became extinct," said lead author Svante Paabo, of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. The analysis from the ancient bone showed ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1134701/asians-native-americans-descended-same-group-dna-analysis-shows
3. Comment - Insight & Opinion

   We need a sober view of sexual violence

   Posted May 18th 2013, 12:00am by Alex Lo

   ... Japanese women during their post-war occupation of Japan. Lai and Hashimoto seem to hold a Neanderthal view of male sexuality, though the Japanese politician is clearly much more offensive. ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1240143/we-need-sober-view-sexual-violence
4. News - China - SCIENCE

   DNA links Asians and Native Americans to early humans in China

   Posted Jan 23rd 2013, 10:54am by AFP

   ... on Monday. “This individual lived during an important evolutionary transition when early modern humans, who shared certain features with earlier forms such as Neanderthals, were replacing Neanderthals and Denisovans, who later became extinct,” said lead author Svante Paabo, of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. The genetic analysis from the ancient bone showed ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1134260/dna-links-asians-and-native-americans-early-humans-china
5. Lifestyle - Technology - BIOGENETICS

   Scientists say reviving extinct species is possible, but question its ethics

   Posted Apr 28th 2013, 12:00am by AFP

   ... be seriously cool." But he also cautioned against inflicting inappropriate, excessive pain and suffering in the scientific quest. For this and other reasons, Neanderthal cloning, which would most ...

   http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/technology/article/1224817/scientists-say-reviving-extinct-species-possible-question-its
6. Lifestyle - Arts & Culture - MARGARET THATCHER

   A woman, scorned

   Posted Apr 21st 2013, 12:00am by James Kidd

   ... Walk to Finchley . A sort of "Thatcher begins", it depicts an aspirational but uncertain young woman fighting for her political life against Neanderthal party officials. For Long Walk ...

   http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/1218375/woman-scorned
7. News - World - PREHISTORY

   Ancestors developed stone-tipped weapons earlier than thought

   Posted Nov 17th 2012, 12:00am by Bloomberg in New York

   ... "Neanderthals and humans did not independently invent the technology, but they inherited it from their last common ancestor." The spears were an improvement because the hunters could get further ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1084132/ancestors-developed-stone-tipped-weapons-earlier-thought
8. Lifestyle - Arts & Culture - ALBUM (1987)

   Rewind, album: 'Whitesnake', by Whitesnake

   Posted Feb 17th 2013, 12:00am by Charlie Carter

   ... Sunset Strip in Neanderthal rock's cross-dressing heyday. Derided as derivative, preening peacocks, they nonetheless bestrode MTV with a preposterously kitsch combination of confidence, ...

   http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/1150899/rewind-album-whitesnake-whitesnake
9. News - China - ARCHAEOLOGY

   Tianyuan Man scientists unlock secrets of ancient DNA

   Posted Feb 17th 2013, 12:00am by STEPHEN CHEN

   ... of Neanderthals in Germany and Denisovans in Russia, extinct homo species who lived in arctic-like cold. For the team studying the Tianyuan remains, contamination posed the first challenge. Institute ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1151909/tianyuan-man-scientists-unlock-secrets-ancient-dna
10. Lifestyle - Technology - SCIENCE MAGAZINE'S TOP 10 ACHIEVEMENTS OF 2012

    Finding the Higgs boson tops scientific achievements this year

    Posted Dec 30th 2012, 12:00am by GDN

    ... a finger bone some 80,000 years old found in a cave in Siberia. Nothing was known about the Denisovans other than that they were contemporaries of the Neanderthals, another "cousin" ...

    http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/technology/article/1115342/finding-higgs-boson-tops-scientific-achievements-year

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