Life without numbers in a unique Amazon tribe
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1+1=2. Mathematics doesn&#39;t get any more basic than this, but even 1+1 would stump the brightest minds among the Piraha tribe of the Amazon.
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The scientific world has just been given an amazing new insight into the complexities of human evolution. A team of Indonesian and Australian scientists has discovered fossils of a new human
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The Karitiana Indians, an isolated tribe in the Amazon, have discovered that blood they gave researchers who promised but did not deliver medicine, is for sale online.
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Scientists have discovered a tiny species of ancient human that lived 18,000 years ago on an isolated island east of the Java Sea -- a prehistoric hunter in a &quot;lost world&quot; of giant lizards and miniature elephants.
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Using helicopters to count endangered orang-utans gives very accurate estimates of the great apes' numbers, researchers report in Plos Biology.
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PUERTO AYORA, Ecuador -- An unremarkable day on the archipelago. A taxi honks at a meandering pedestrian. Dockworkers empty another cargo boat, while sunburned tourists listen to their guides explain how the unique fauna here inspired Charles Darwin to develop his theory of evolution.
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Australian scientists have found a new species of hobbit-sized humans who lived about 18,000 years ago on an Indonesian island. The discovery adds another piece to the complex puzzle of human evolution.
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Networking project in the Amazon turns up unknown amphibian, proving Negroponte right in more ways than one.
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According to the Telegraph, the Pirahã &quot;have little social structure, no art, and they barter instead of using currency. Their language is limited to just 10 consonants and vowels.&quot; The only words they have for numbers are &quot;one,&quot; &quot;two&quot; and &quot;many.&quot; ...
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A group of researchers has re-created with remarkable accuracy part of the genome of the common ancestor of all placental mammals, a small shrew-like creature that prowled the forests of what is now Asia more than 80 million years ago.
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The species found in the mountains of Indonesia may be new to science, but not to Sherlock Holmes.
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A Brazilian Indian tribe is linking up with Google Earth to try to capture vivid images that could help stop loggers and miners from deforesting the jungle and digging for gold on its vast Amazon reservation.
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Human skin teems with a zoo of strange microbes in colonies that are nearly unique from person to person and many of which are practically unknown to science, new research finds. Some of the bugs are permanent residents, while others come and go.
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Some brainy animal species, besides humans, campaign across sophisticated and far-flung social networks
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The miniature people found to have lived on an Indonesian island until 13,000 years ago have shaken up views of the human past.
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An Indian identity that means more than being gay or lesbian.
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LONDON - A new species of flightless bird has been discovered on a remote island in the northern Philippines, Filipino and British researchers announced Tuesday.