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Image: Centro UCM-ISCIII De Evolución Humana The 530,000-year-old de-formed skull of a child found in Spain indicates that some early humans must have nurtured and cared for disabled members of their tribe. This child, estimated to be 10 years old at the time of death, had a debilitating birth defect called craniosynostosis, in which joints in the skull fuse before the brain has finished growing. The disorder increases pressure in the skull, impairing brain development. “It is amazing that this child was able to survive until 10 years old. This is the most ancient proof of social care of the handicapped,” says Ana Gracia, a paleoanthropologist based in Madrid, who published an analysis of the skull in March in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences .
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Index of Native American History Resources on the Internet
There are currently at least 3 projects on KickStarter concerning the Native American community that deserve your support. One concerns the Mixtec people of Central Mexico who are sufferring through an ecological disaster. A second, titled LaDonna Harris: Indian 101 , is a documentary about the Comanche activist. The third is Winter in the Blood , a proposal to make a feature film of James Welch's novel. Each of these projects deserves your support, even if you can only give a dollar.Native American Indian languages Native culture What's new on our site today! Judging from the email I get, there are a lot of people out there trying to learn about traditional Native American religion and spirituality these days. Many of them are trying to do this on the Internet. Now, there is a lot of garbage and misinformation on the Internet no matter what subject you're talking about, but American Indian religion and spirituality has got to have the worst signal-noise ratio of any of them.
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An ancient harbor on the Red Sea proves ancient Egyptians mastered oceangoing technology and launched a series of ambitious expeditions to far-off lands. 09.06.2011 Once we shared the planet with other human species, competing with them and interbreeding with them. Today we stand alone, but our rivals’ genes live on inside us—even as their remarkable stories are only now coming to light. 07.28.2011 The institutions of science are slowly unwinding and assessing the problems that have been revealed in psychologist Marc Hauser's research. 06.20.2011 Before the arrival of Europeans, the Amazon may have been a much different landscape, with millions of human inhabitants managing the land. 05.10.2011
Biology, Evolution and More Human Origins News | Discover Magazi
First reconstruction of Neanderthal man Image courtesy of Ther Neanderthaler Fund Forget what you know about simpleminded cavemen. Scientists have discovered that Neanderthal diets were sophisticated, their tools efficient, and their development more similar to ours than researchers ever imagined. Neanderthals are widely viewed as big-game-hunting carnivores who lacked the culinary expertise of modern humans. Now researchers working at two sites on Gibraltar have discovered that Neanderthals were in fact skillfully exploiting the diverse dietary riches of their coastal environment around 40,000 years ago—some 10,000 years before the ancestors of modern humans ever set foot on the peninsula.
