On Science 's Origins blog, I write about a new study that might shed new light on the differences between chimp and human brains in a region cl…
Read moreToday on Science 's Origins blog, I write about an exhibit at the prehistory museum of the Pech-Merle Cave, in France's Lot Valley, that tra…
Read moreLast week I blogged my article in Science about the paleoartists who recreate hominins for museums and magazine covers; today, on Science 's Or…
Read moreToday's issue of Science features a four-page article by yours truly about the "paleoartists" who create lifelike, three-dimensional …
Read moreA couple of days ago, Times science writer Gina Kolata, who was filling in for John Tierney on his blog TiernyLab, linked to a report by the organ…
Read moreNewsweek science writer Sharon Begley pens an often wickedly funny critique of evolutionary psychology this week, and I blog about it briefly on Sc…
Read moreI've been neglecting the science segment of this blog, but today on Science 's online news service (ScienceNOW) I write about a paper report…
Read moreThe archaeology team working at 9500 year old Neolithic Çatalhöyük, one of the largest early farming sites ever investigated, has shown up and begun …
Read moreThat's the title of my three-page News Focus in this week's issue of Science , about the lawsuit filed last month by two men from Papua New G…
Read moreTomorrow, Monday May 11, I will be one of the keynote speakers at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Ninth Annual Colloquium on Teaching and …
Read moreA cast of Homo floresiensis is on display during a conference on the diminutive species at Stony Brook University entitled “Hobbits in the Haystack…
Read moreToday on Science 's online news service, ScienceNOW, I report on the latest in the long saga of Einstein's brain. An anthropologist at Flori…
Read moreJust back from India and a little jetlagged, so nothing brilliant to say today. Meanwhile, enjoy a couple short videos by University of California, B…
Read moreThis post is true, despite what day it is: I will be off on an 8-day, 3-city speaking tour in India beginning tomorrow, at the kind invitation of the…
Read moreMy friend and colleague Greg Critser has an opinion piece with this title in today's Los Angeles Times . Greg makes some important points about…
Read moreToday on Science 's online news service, ScienceNOW, I write about two papers in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reporting …
Read moreContinuing with Science Friday: In today's print issue of Science , I also report on a paper by Dorian Fuller of Universal College London and Ch…
Read moreIt's Science Friday, and what better way to end the week than with a musical interlude--musical research interlude, that is. Today in Science …
Read moreHumans are mental time travelers: We remember what we thought and felt in the past, and we anticipate what we might be thinking and feeling in the fu…
Read moreEvery Friday, whenever possible, we will be featuring the latest scientific news. Here's this week's installment. Expert On Anteaters Wasted …
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