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NEWS ABOUT: human evolution

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Women Have Been Falling for Brad Pitt Types for 2.6M Years

Rules of attraction haven't changed much

Aug 25, 07 10:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - The facial proportions of the average hot guy haven't changed much throughout human  evolutionary history, finds a new study that compares contemporary human skulls with skulls from 2.6 million years ago. Women have been selecting for males with short, broad faces—think Brad Pitt and Will Smith—since the... More »

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gender • evolution • Brad Pitt • women • men • science • human evolution • biology • attraction

Girls Think Pink, Naturally,
Study Finds

Women's attraction to redder hues linked
to evolution

Aug 21, 07 3:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Shocking news: Girls love pink. That love might not just be cultural—but linked to evolutionary development, researchers  in a new study have concluded. Pink may have helped ancient women recognize ripe fruit and healthy men with ruddy faces, while both genders yearned for the blue of open skies and... More »

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gender • human evolution • gender roles • biology • girls • pink

Kenyan Fossil Rattles Human
Family Tree

Skull suggests two precursors were actually concurrent

Aug 9, 07 8:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Two of our ancestors apparently lived alongside each other in Africa rather than evolving from one to the next on the path to Homo sapiens, as scientists once believed. National Geographic reports that a Homo habilis skull dug up in Kenya is surprisingly young, making its 1.4 million-year-old owner... More »

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Africa • Kenya • evolution • archaeology • origins of humanity • fossil • human evolution • homo sapiens • hominids • anthropology • Homo habilis • Homo erectus

Orangutans Play Charades

Apes pay attention to whether they are being understood

Aug 2, 07 9:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - Orangutan communication works just like a game of charades, according to new research. Orangs and other apes who use signals to communicate what they want pay careful attention to whether their audience understands their gestures—if something works, they repeat it, and if they aren't getting through they try another... More »

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communication • apes • orangutans • language • human evolution • charades

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