Anthropologist stumbles over faked skulls
An incredible affair of faked skulls has found its inglorious end at a district court in Frankfurt, Germany. Reiner Protsch von Zieten, a previous highly respected professor of anthropology, was given an 18-month suspended sentence. Protsch had been debunked some years ago of systematically falsifying the dates of numerous major stone-age relics (see the Guardian […]
Get your clone uncontaminated
It’s not unusual for a paternity test to reveal unpleasant truths about the kiddy (and its genitor).
The outcome of a Texas paternity test in May, however, wasn’t only unusual - it was crazy. Here’s the story.
A mother and her fiancĂ© decided to take a paternity test due to the puzzling different facial features of their […]
Spitting and popping genes
Did you ever toy with the idea of having your own DNA analysed? You didn’t? Well, 25-year-old reporter girl Boonsri Dickinson from the NYC-based Discover magazine did.
Dickinson spat and popped, then she sent, ugh!, saliva and cheek cells by mail and subsequently was disclosed frightening things.
DNA testing isn’t no more bloody expensive. There are a […]
Calling Neanderthal
Aaargh!
Ough!
Huh-huh-grumpf… ouch!?
Well, speaking isn’t always that easy.
In Jean-Jacques Annaud’s film “Quest for Fire” a group of Palaeolithic humans travels its primeval world in search of a flame to relight their extinct fire. The film’s most startling feature is the invented language spoken by the prehistoric humans. It was created by British novelist and composer Anthony […]
