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Climate change drove human evolution

Mongabay.com 3 Sep 2007

Crop domestication originated in compost piles

Mongabay.com 19 Aug 2007

Asians played larger role in colonization of Europe than Africans

Mongabay.com 6 Aug 2007

Killers of renowned anthropologist sentenced in Brazil

Mongabay.com 12 Jul 2007

Orangutans use water as a tool

Mongabay.com 6 Jul 2007

Peanuts, cotton, squash first farmed in Peru 6,000-10,000 years ago

Mongabay.com 28 Jun 2007

Unknown tribe found in the Amazon

Mongabay.com 4 Jun 2007

Polynesians brought chickens to Americas before Columbus

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jun 2007

Global warming killed Neanderthals in Spain

Mongabay.com 30 Apr 2007

Maize cultivated at least 7,300 years ago in Mexico

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Apr 2007

Ancient humanoids were short and nasty for kung fu fighting, not climbing

Mongabay.com 12 Mar 2007

Pre-Colombian Amazon rainforest not heavily populated

Mongabay.com 6 Mar 2007

Humans pre-date Clovis population in North America

Texas A 22 Feb 2007

Does language extinction matter?

Mongabay.com 16 Feb 2007

Captive chimpanzees ‘talk’ to humans

Mongabay.com 29 Jan 2007

Amazon Indians use Google Earth, GPS to protect forest home

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Nov 2006

Indians are key to rainforest conservation efforts says renowned ethnobotanist

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Oct 2006

Traditional customs pit young versus old in Indonesia’s Torajaland

Tina Butler 19 Oct 2006

Bering Strait land bridge may have flooded earlier than thought

Mongabay.com 11 Oct 2006

Oldest juvenile skeleton discovered in Ethiopia

Arizona State University 20 Sep 2006

Bison-hunting Plains indians more advanced than thought

Mongabay.com 15 Aug 2006

Is climate change worsening malaria?

University Of Michigan 21 Mar 2006

Easter Island settled around 1200, later than originally believed

Rhett A. Butler 13 Mar 2006

Indigenous Amazonians Display Core Understanding Of Geometry

Harvard University News 23 Jan 2006

New evidence shows abrupt worldwide increase in birth rate during Neolithic period

University Of Chicago Press Journals 3 Jan 2006

Simplified stereotypes of “typical” Americans, Brazilians, Chinese are common but mistaken

Nih 6 Oct 2005

Q&A: What are the most spoken languages on earth?

Mongabay.com 25 Jul 2005

How did rainforest shamans gain their boundless knowledge on medicinal plants?

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 May 2005

Project seeks to understand human origins and migration

Tina Butler 9 May 2005

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