The demise of Homo neanderthalensis
Why did our Homo sapiens species survive and Homo neanderthalensis die out? New research reported in NewScientist uncovers a number of...
Another Bottleneck!
Apparently there has been more than one bottleneck along the way to our current milieu. In new research reported in Popular Science,...
A mysterious human species may have been the first to bury their dead
By chapter 7, we finally encountered modern Homo sapiens sapiens, and remarked that the redundancy in the name came from the fact that...
Human brain shows weird preference for sounds from the left!
In chapters 7&8 we explored the auditory cortex and how it processed music and speech differently in the left and right hemispheres of...