Scott, BeccyCarver, MartinAntiquityWynn, T., Coolidge, F. L. 2012. How to think like a Neanderthal. Oxford, Oxford University Press.Wynn, T., and Coolidge, F. L. (2012). How to Think Like a Neanderthal. Oxford: Oxford Universit...
Ancient-DNA researchers have developed ways to exclude these misreads. But Carmel’s team realized that because the methylated DNA nucleotides would give a different deamination product from the unmethylated nucleotides, they could use this feature to deduce which sequences in the Neanderthal and ...
Quiz: New Man or Neanderthal? Do you live the politically correct lifestyle, or are you more of a Neanderthal? When it’s time to do dishes, do you lend a hand, or do you chug a beer and watch your other half get to work? You might not think of yourself as a Neanderthal, but ...
4.You may now begin using AirDrop to transfer files between a Mac and an iOS device. To test it out, go to the AirDrop menu in Finder and notice that your iOS device is represented by circle. Drag and drop a file onto the circle, and your iOS device will prompt you to accept the...
Our DNA is not similar to that of Neanderthal and chimpanzee―it is, to all intents and purposes, identical. Then why are we so different? Most scientists have concluded that our higher faculties must be found in the cortex, particularly in the prefrontal cortex (PFC), both proportionally la...
Tsunamis can cause immense physical damage to ports, but the economic cost does not stop there. The resultant disruptions of shipping lanes result in billions of dollars in losses every day, as was seen in the 2011 tsunami that hit the Tohoku Region. To
they can say they were bound to fail because their language didn’t predispose them to think in the right way for the particular intellectual task at hand: maybe there’s something about German as a language that just makes it easier for a Kant or a Hegel to formulate philosophical ideas....
Sadie emerges as a sly take on the Ugly American, confident in her abilities but comically insensitive to her surroundings (“To my palette Italian wine is more or less table wine. It is wine in a box”). Reading through Bruno’s emails, which extol the virtues of the Ne...
Menken later remembered being blown away by Ashman’s wordplay, “’Gaston’ is really tongue-in-cheek, a drinking song sung by basically a group of Neanderthal-level guys in praise of a complete lug-head. When we were writing that song, I could not contain my laughter. It was very ...
10 Tips For Motivating Yourself To Workout When it comes down to it, motivation matters most for hitting the gym. But our Neanderthal brains are very bad at keeping ourselves motivated – especially when it is something that we might not enjoy doing all the time. ...