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Humans have been overhauling some species?? genetic compositions—far more substantially than the dinky addition of a gene or two—since the beginning of civilization. Every year, farmers select the most bountiful individual plants and animals and breed their offspring to produce the next generation. Modern grain and livestock species look nothing like their ancestors from 10,000 years...
...select which bowl is more likely to have food, chimpanzees pick the wrong bowl as often as the correct one, Wrangham said. However, dogs who were involved in the same experiment were more accurate, he added. Wobber became interested in what factor was responsible for differences in each species?? cognitive ability and why some species are better at reading human signals, Wrangham said. Wobber wanted to know if this was the result of domestication. Wobber, who conducted thesis research at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, examined various dog breeds. Among these...
...have been excavated on the remote Indonesian island of Flores. The first of these hobbit fossils was uncovered in October 2004. More recently, an anthropology professor at the University of New England in Australia, Mike Morwood, discovered a fossilized jawbone that has spurred the latest investigation into the new species?? existence. Morwood collaborated with another professor at the University of New England, Peter Brown, to analyze the fossil findings, a process which they just finished. Lieberman wrote about the discovery and its latest developments in yesterday’s edition of the journal Nature. Further testing will...
Carol J. Adams, author of The Sexual Politics of Meat and The Pornography of Meat, drew fame in feminist-vegan-theory circles when she linked “species?? oppression to gender oppression. She argues that the objectification of women and animals follow similar patterns: both the fairer sex and the four-legged set are sexualized, dehumanized and finally abused. FM caught up with her after she spoke at Quincy House and at the Law School last week...
Knott said this impending extinction of one of the human species?? closest relatives impacts the world both from a biological and humanistic level...