Friday, March 11, 2011

New View of How Humans Moved Away From Apes - NYTimes.com

New View of How Humans Moved Away From Apes - NYTimes.com: "A team of anthropologists led by Kim R. Hill of Arizona State University and Robert S. Walker of the University of Missouri analyzed data from 32 living hunter-gatherer peoples and found that the members of a band are not highly related. Fewer than 10 percent of people in a typical band are close relatives, meaning parents, children or siblings, they report in Friday’s issue of Science."