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A comprehensive analysis of the anthropological and genetic history of humans' expansion out of Africa could lead to medical advances. 
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Few question the idea that modern humans are all emigrants from Africa. But when their journey began, when it ended and what they did along the way makes for a deepening mystery, explored in this issue of Nature.
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"This article gives us some insight into why, despite being regular clickers ourselves, many of us can’t help but hear African clicks as noise-like when they’re used in words where we expect consonants to be. Our brains have plenty of experience in hearing clicks—just not in that particular role. It may also explain why speakers of click languages are bemused by our inability to hear them as plain old consonants."
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Last year, a report claiming to support the idea that the origin of language can be traced to West Africa appeared in Science. The article caused quite a stir.
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"Engineering a Difference" follows three teams of engineering students and professional engineers as they work with communities in Ghana, Kenya and Nicaragua to build critical infrastructure.
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Most scientists believe that human beings evolved in Africa, then migrated from the continent to conquer the world. But researchers from the University of Tubingen in Germany believe that our ancestry might be more complicated - and significant parts of human evolution might have happened in Europe and Western Asia.
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Researchers are confirming what African farmers already know: Termites and ants can be used to increase soil fertility and crop yields.
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A best-selling Swedish writer moves to Africa and learns to listen.
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Computer science study in Africa shows great promise, with one Ugandan university even charting its own course in many aspects of mobile computing ahead of the developed world.
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As a preventive measure, voluntary male circumcision is gaining favor as a large-scale attack against HIV's spread.
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of California, Berkeley, scientists have shown that ionized plasmas like those in neon lights and plasma TVs not only can sterilize water, but make it antimicrobial – able to kill bacteria – for as long as a week after...
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An international team of researchers have found the oldest rodent fossils in South America.
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March 11, 2014 11:47 AM
Intellectual- this article is about a fossil that is 10 million years old, or older! It shows how the South American country has pathologists and other advances in intellectually alert people. |
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The Khoe and San peoples in southern Africa play an important role for our understanding of the evolutionary history of humans. These peoples are directly descended from the first branching of the genealogical tree of today’s humans. This is shown in a study led by Uppsala University researchers and being presented in the early online version of the journal Science today.
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In this week's PLoS Medicine, Dejan Zurovac and colleagues from the Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Research Program, Nairobi, Kenya discuss six areas where text messaging could improve the delivery of health services and health...
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Last April, a linguistic study likened the spread of the sounds of language to the human gene pool, and used this information to suggest language arose once in Africa 10000 years ago.
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A new study, using genetic analysis to look for clues about human migration over sixty thousand years ago, suggests that the first modern humans settled in Arabia on their way from the Horn of Africa to the rest of the world.
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Computer models suggest that condoms are to be thanked for the falling HIV infection rates in South Africa since 2000...
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Africa's Lower Congo River is host to a vast diversity of fishes, and in this video, we learn a little about what makes this region so special
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An illness that causes carriers to nod violently when they eat food is spreading through northern Uganda and appears to have reached South Sudan...
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Stone implements linked Africans and Arabians a surprisingly long time ago...
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A series of new archaeological discoveries in the Sultanate of Oman, nestled in the southeastern corner of the Arabian Peninsula, reveals the timing and identity of one of the first modern human groups to migrate out of Africa, according to new...
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Academics from the Universities of Oxford and Warwick have shed new light on the history of interactions between the classical world, Africa and the Middle East.
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A six-year effort to map the genetic patterns of humankind appears to confirm that early people first left Africa by crossing into Arabia.
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