Do Chimps Have A Culture?
	For adapting to the environment, organisms have two choices: to change their physiology or to change their behavior, through genetic changes or learning; it is a trade between mutation and innovation. Innovation can be cultural if it propagates to other individuals or groups, maintains along the generations, beyond that of its discoverer and presents a certain degree of stability in its execution by various "users". We tend t ... [read more >>]
	18 February 2008, 10:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

When Do Latino Women Start Their Sex Life?
	Chicas latinas son realmente calientes. In the Latino music, that's only sensuality and passion. How does this translate in the sex life of these women? A new study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health and carried on at the University of Chicago Medical Center shows that the sense of personal control over sex life strongly determines when Latino women start their sex life. Personal beliefs on timing the first se ... [read more >>]
	17 January 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Westerners' Brains and East Asians' Brains Function Differently!
	Being East Asian is more than the almond eye, yellowish skin, sushi, rice, soy sauce and the weird glyphs. The brain works differently! A new MIT research published in "Psychological Science" shows how the Westerners and the East Asian people use their brains differently when facing the same visual perceptual issue. In American culture, the individual value is the most important, that's why it focuses on the independence ... [read more >>]
	14 January 2008, 04:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google’s Take on Culture Today
	The question was "So what really is different now?" and it was asked to Google’s chief executive, Eric Schmidt, by Steve Lohr from the NYTimes. The feeling that there’s an acceleration in the pace of life and in lifestyle as a whole is circling everyone I’ve talked to on the matter, and it seems that others have the same feeling. The most iconic example of what’s it about is Google, and that is why Schmidt was the one selected to ... [read more >>]
	18 December 2007, 13:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

7,000 Years Ago European Women Dressed Sexy
	They may have lived during the "New Stone Age" (Neolithic), but according to European figurines which are 7,500 years old, women liked to look sexy even back then. Recent digging at the site of a settlement of Vinca culture, Europe's biggest known Neolithic civilization, on Plocnik (southern Serbia), uncovered a sophisticated prehistoric metropolis, with a developed taste for art and fashion and it appears now to be Euro ... [read more >>]
	13 November 2007, 06:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Who Were the Aztecs?
	"The enormous market swarmed of people; some buying, some selling...Amongst us were soldiers which had traveled in many parts of the world, from Constantinople to Italy and Rome, yet they said they had never seen a market of such proportions so harmonious and balanced, harboring so much people", wrote Bernal Diaz del Castillo, a soldier from the army of the Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes, about Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital ... [read more >>]
	03 November 2007, 05:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Oldest Romeo and Juliet: 8,000 Years Old!
	The skeletons of a "Romeo and Juliet" couple found last February near Verona, Italy, could be pretty young compared to their newly found Turkish counterparts, 3,000 years older. The two ancient skeletons encountered in each other's arms in a grave in Turkey seem to be the subject of the oldest love story to last for eternity. The bones could belong to a 30-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman, and were discovered [ADMARK ... [read more >>]
	19 October 2007, 05:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Gay Culture of the Japanese Monkeys
	The world "culture" has been used for centuries to differentiate people from animals. That's why many anthropologists, psychologists and philosophers refuse to apply this concept for the monkeys living in the cool mountains of Japan. Still, many researchers show behavioral and learning patterns to name these animals a "culture". If culture is the non-genetic transmission of habits and behaviors, or a unique pattern ... [read more >>]
	19 July 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Genocide of a Mysterious Ancient Culture, Proven by Massacres
	This is one of the most mysterious cultures of the New World. The obscure native culture named Gallina occupied a small zone of northwestern New Mexico around A.D. 1100 but by 1275 they were all gone. Now, seven Gallina skeletons (five adults, one child and one infant), appearing to have been victims of a brutal massacre in an ancient campaign of genocide, could solve more of their mystery. "The newfound skeletons could provid ... [read more >>]
	16 July 2007, 02:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Chimps Catch On the Way Humans Do
	You think that only Westerners can steal Daoist sexual practices, martial arts, silk, gunpowder and paper, don't you? Chimpanzees too have been found to easily take customs and culture from one population to another, just like the humans. This could explain the capabilities of the last common ancestor of humans and chimps, 4 million years ago but also lead to the development of better robots and artificial intelligence. In the w ... [read more >>]
	09 June 2007, 04:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Did Stone Age People Start to Make Agriculture?
	During 4 million years of evolution, people just gathered, hunted and fished what nature offered, living just like another intelligent mammal. But about 12,000 years ago, with the Neolithic ("new stone") era, people started to be producers, creating voluntarily their subsistence means and breaking their dependence on nature's offer. In time, gathering, hunting and fishing lost importance in front of animal husbandry and ... [read more >>]
	24 May 2007, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Ancient Headless Bodies Found on the Cannibals' Islands
	Archaeologists have discovered in the Pacific islands of Vanuatu (New Hebrides) the region's oldest cemetery, 3,000 year old, filled with a huge amount of headless bodies. The strange skeletons belong to the Lapita people, the earliest known sailors in the Pacific Islands. Their DNA could explain how many remote islands around Vanuatu were colonized. "Polynesia was first settled by the Lapita culture but their popul ... [read more >>]
	16 March 2007, 05:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia