Effect of Health Store In The Life Of A Man

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Staying healthy is the first and foremost thing in everyone’s life. Being healthy essentially means having good physical, mental and spiritual health. There are various factors which directly or indirectly enable us to be healthy. Having a proper, nutritious diet is the first thing. It should be ...

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10 Worst Foods for Pregnant Women

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Deciding which foods to eat or avoid during pregnancy can be very confusing that is why we have created all the information for you. Keep this list on hand so that you know which food is good for you but don’t concentrate on the negative aspects of eating during pregnancy. Instead, f...

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Effective Procedure For Injury Claims In Accident Insurance

Being aware of the vital procedure a person should take, when they’ve had an unexpected tragic accident is very important. People who are oblivious about their state, when they happen to suffer from an alienating car accident often find themselves stuck, not knowing what to do next. Here is a s...

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Why Do I Need A Foot Doctor?

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A foot doctor (or, more commonly, a podiatrist) is a doctor that specializes in the lower extremities, the feet, and the ankles. They are physicians who specialize in this form of orthopedics. There are a myriad of reasons why a podiatrist may be contacted and not all of them are a result of a...

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How To Understand Different Types Of Bone Cancer

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Regardless of the type of bone cancer that a person develops, early diagnosis will determine the method of treatment and whether the treatment will effectively treat and cure it. Some patients will initially have to find an orthopedic surgeon to undergo surgery while others will receive...

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One of The Best Gyms in Nashville Tennessee

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The general notion amongst people is that, exercise is for people who need to lose weight. Weight loss or weight maintenance is just one benefit of exercise. There are many other health benefits that can be attained by exercise. To achieve those benefits, simple moderate exercise is...

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Things to Know about Critical Illness Insurance Cover

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When you ask for a life insurance quote, remember to also ask about critical illness cover. Critical illness cover is usually available at a very low cost or sometimes no extra cost at all. This cover is usually available only along with a relevant insurance cover.
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Communication Is Key To A Good Attorney-Client Relationship

Communication Is Key To A Good Attorney-Client Relationship


A mesothelioma attorney’s experience can make a big difference to your case. But experience isn’t the only important feature of an effective attorney-client relationship. Another key part of any good partnership is good...

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What do you Need to Know about Private Medical Insurance

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Heath insurance is a very vital thing for each and every individual. Generally, there are several organizations which provide medical insurances to their employees. It has been observed that a group insurance is comparatively more affordable as compared to individual insurance. Thus, you might...

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How to Choose the Best IVF Surrogacy Services in India

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In India, The best ivf surrogacy services available which provide complete services to the couple of intended parents who visit the surrogacy center or clinic. Surrogacy is an agreement of a pregnancy that commence with finding an appropriate surrogate with your biological child in...

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Latest 2014 Updates on E-Cigarettes: How to Buy E-Liquid Cigarette?

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There are many people who are now leaving traditional tobacco cigarettes and are leaning towards and adopting electronic cigarettes or e-cigarettes or e-cigs. These electronic cigarettes are widely replacing the old tobacco cigarettes and are proving to be much more healthy option as compared to...

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Four myths about privacy

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Many privacy discussions follow a similar pattern, and involve the same kinds of arguments. It’s commonplace to hear that privacy is dead, that people — especially kids — don’t care about privacy, that people with nothing to hide have nothing to fear, and that privacy is bad for business. “These claims are common, but they’re myths,” said Neil M. Richards, JD, privacy law expert and professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis.”These privacy myths are not only false, they get in the way of the kind of important conversations we need to have about personal information in a digital age. If we continue to believe privacy myths, if we think about privacy as outdated or impossible, our digital revolution may have no rules at all, a result that will disempower all but the most powerful among us.”Our understandings of privacy must evolve; we can no longer think about privacy as merely how much of our lives are completely secret, or about privacy as hiding bad truths from society. How we shape the technologies and data flows will have far-reaching effects for the social structures of the digital societies of the future.”In an article, “Four Privacy Myths,” available online via the Social Science Research Network, Richards explained why four of the most common privacy myths persist — and how we can avoid them. His arguments in brief:”First, privacy cannot be dead because it deals with the rules governing personal information; in an age of personal information, rules about how that information can flow will be more important than ever.Second, people (and young people) do care deeply about privacy, but they face limited choices and limited information about how to participate in the processing of their data.Third, privacy isn’t just for people with dark secrets; it’s for all of us. Not just because we all have things we’d prefer weren’t publicly broadcast, but more fundamentally because information is power and personal information is personal power.Finally, privacy is not always bad for business. One of the best hopes for meaningful privacy protection in the future is for businesses to compete on privacy, and there is some evidence that this is starting to happen.”Richards noted that clearing away the myths is an essential first step to talking about privacy in a helpful and constructive way.”It’s only when we clear away the myths that we can have the essential conversations we need to have about how personal information is shaping our society, now and in the future. …


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Promising biomarkers to predict suicide risk

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In this Review, published to coincide with the launch of The Lancet Psychiatry journal, Professor Kees van Heeringen from Ghent University in Belgium and John Mann from Columbia University in the USA discuss the stress-diathesis theory of suicide, in which a predisposition or diathesis interacts with stressful life experiences and acute psychiatric illness to cause suicidal behavior. The theory explains why only a small minority of individuals are at risk of taking their own lives after exposure to such stressors.The authors discuss the causes of the diathesis, or predisposition, to suicidal behavior, which may include genetic effects and the long-term impact on the brain and behavior of early life adversity (eg, physical and sexual abuse). Additionally, they outline various neurobiological factors that may play a role in this predisposition to suicidal behavior. For example, post-mortem and neuroimaging studies have identified structural and functional changes in the brains of individuals with a history of suicidal behavior that may affect regulation of mood, response to stress and decision-making, and these include biochemical deficits in serotonin function and the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis (HPA) stress-response. The authors suggest that these abnormalities could be used in future to develop biomarkers that may help predict who is at risk of taking their own lives, and that may serve as a target for treatment.According to Professor van Heeringen, “Worldwide, over a million people each year die from suicide. Given that there are no reliable clinical tests to identify people who may be more predisposed to suicide, genetic and brain imaging biomarkers offer the most promising new directions for detecting high risk individuals and to identify more personalised treatments for preventing suicidal behavior.”Story Source:The above story is based on materials provided by The Lancet. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.


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New insights into bacterial substitute for sex

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Bacteria don’t have sex as such, but they can mix their genetic material by pulling in DNA from dead bacterial cells and inserting these into their own genome.New research led by Imperial College London has found that this process — called recombination — is more complex than was first thought. The findings, published today in PLoS Genetics, could help us understand why bacteria which cause serious diseases are able to evade vaccines and rapidly become drug-resistant.Dr Rafal Mostowy of Imperial College London’s School of Public Health explains: “During recombination, bacteria might incorporate new DNA which makes them resistant to treatments, or they may take on genes which change their surface structure, enabling them to evade vaccines. Although we’ve known for almost a century that recombination takes place, it’s only since DNA sequencing has become available that we have been able to determine how often this takes place and how significant the changes are.”Scientists from Imperial College London, Harvard School of Public Health and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute studied two ‘lineages’ of the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae (known as pneumococcus), one of which is resistant to drugs. Pneumococcusis one of the major causes of pneumonia, meningitis and septicaemia; the World Health Organisation estimates that 1.1 million children under the age of five die each year of pneumonia alone.Using DNA sequences of bacteria strains collected over 36 years, Dr Mostowy and his colleagues were able to reconstruct an evolutionary tree for two ‘lineages’, mapping when new DNA had been taken on board and how the bacteria had evolved as a result. Although recombination has always been thought of as a uniform process, the models showed two distinct types of recombination — dubbed micro and macro.In ‘micro-recombination’, the bacteria regularly incorporate small amounts of DNA that make little difference to their genome. Although ‘macro-recombination’ takes place less frequently, it involves the bacteria taking on large amounts of DNA which make a significant change to the genome. It is this second process which the scientists believe enables the bacteria to change their appearance to evade vaccines or potentially take on resistance to drug treatments.The scientists found that recombination took place frequently in the evolution of the more resistant lineage they studied, and less frequently in the less resistant lineage. However, it was clear from the sequencing data that both strains had undergone micro- and macro-recombination.”This is a major step forward in our understanding of how recombination can result in bacteria evading vaccines and acquiring resistance to antibiotics,” says Dr Mostowy. “Currently we have effective means of preventing and treating pneumococcal disease, but it’s not clear how bacteria will respond in the long term.”Dr Nick Croucher, joint first author on the study, from Imperial’s School of Public Health, adds “This work shows that pneumococci can undergo potentially clinically important changes very quickly. Fortunately, whole genome sequencing, the technology that made this discovery possible, also holds great promise as a means of monitoring the emergence of these mutants in the future..”Professor Christophe Fraser, also from the School of Public Health at Imperial and senior author of the study, says: “As well as being important for public health, recombination in bacteria is biologically fascinating; the evolutionary purpose of absorbing DNA from dead and possibly only loosely related bacteria is mysterious. …


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Scientists recommend further research, delay in destruction of last stocks of smallpox

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Variola, the virus that causes smallpox, is on the agenda of the upcoming meeting of the World Health Assembly (WHA), the governing body of the World Health Organization. The decision to be made is whether the last known remaining live strains of the virus should be destroyed. An international group of scientists led by Inger Damon, from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, argue in an opinion piece published on May 1st in PLOS Pathogens that the WHA should not choose destruction, because crucial scientific questions remain unanswered and important public health goals unmet.Smallpox was declared eradicated in 1980, the only human pathogen for which successful eradication has been achieved to date. Since then, limited research focusing on diagnostic, antiviral and vaccine development, under close direction and oversight, has continued in two high-security laboratories–one in Russia and one in the US–the only places that are known still to have live variola strains. The justification for this research is that smallpox might re-appear via intentional release. Indeed, recent advances in synthetic biology make the possibility of re-creating the live virus from scratch more plausible.Summarizing the focus and the achievements of the research on live variola over the past several decades, the authors of the PLOS Pathogens article mention several new smallpox vaccines (the ones widely used prior to eradication would not meet today’s stricter safety standards for routine use) and two new drug candidates that, based on research so far, appear to be promising antivirals against the virus that causes smallpox. However, both of these drug candidates have not yet been licensed for use against the disease. “Despite these considerable advances, they argue that “the research agenda with live variola virus is not yet finished.”Discussing the significant remaining knowledge gaps, they highlight that while “variola is unusual in that it is known to be a sole human pathogen, the viral and host factors responsible for this human-specific tropism remain essentially unknown to this day” and argue that “greater exploitation of current technologies may lead to additional therapeutic or diagnostic products to better respond to any future emergency situation resulting from a smallpox appearance.” In light of published variola genome sequences and current capabilities of synthetic biology, they also question whether the ultimate destruction of the variola virus is actually feasible or meaningful.Overall, the authors conclude that research on live variola “remains vital” and “the original goals of the WHO agenda for newer and safer vaccines, fully licensed antiviral drugs, and better diagnostics have still not been fully met.”Story Source:The above story is based on materials provided by PLOS. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.


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Spinal cord neurons that control skilled limb movement identified

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Researchers have identified two types of neurons that enable the spinal cord to control skilled forelimb movement. The first is a group of excitatory interneurons that are needed to make accurate and precise movements; the second is a group of inhibitory interneurons necessary for achieving smooth movement of the limbs. The findings are important steps toward understanding normal human motor function and potentially treating movement disorders that arise from injury or disease.”We take for granted many motor behaviors, such as catching a ball or flipping a coin, that in fact require considerable planning and precision,” said Columbia University Medical Center’s (CUMC’s) Thomas M. Jessell, PhD, a senior author of both studies, which were published separately in recent issues of Nature. “While such motor acts seem effortless, they depend on intricate and carefully orchestrated communication between neural networks that connect the brain to the spinal cord and muscles.”To move one’s hand to a desired target, the brain sends the spinal cord signals, which activate the motor neurons that control limb muscles. During subsequent movements, information from the limb is conveyed back to the brain and spinal cord, providing a feedback system that can support the control and adjustment of motor output.”But feedback from muscles is not quick enough to permit the most rapid real-time adjustments of fine motor control,” said Dr. Jessell, “suggesting that there may be other, faster, systems at play.” Dr. Jessell is the Claire Tow Professor of Motor Neuron Disorders in the Departments of Neuroscience and of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, co-director of the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, co-director of the Kavli Institute for Brain Science, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, all at Columbia.Researchers had suspected that one rapid form of feedback might derive from a group of interneurons in the cervical spinal cord called propriospinal neurons (PNs). Like many other neurons, PNs send signals to motor neurons that innervate arm muscles and trigger movement. …


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Age, general health, antidepressant use linked to eye disorders

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Abnormal binocular vision, which involves the way eyes work together as a team, increases dramatically as we age, according to research from the University of Waterloo. The study also found a correlation between this condition, general health and antidepressant use.As many as 27 per cent of adults in their sixties have an actual binocular vision or eye movement disorder. That number rises to 38 per cent for those over age 80. About 20 per cent of the general population suffers from a binocular vision disorder, which affects depth perception and therefore may increase the risk of falls.Dr. Susan Leat, a professor at the School of Optometry and Vision Science at Waterloo led the study, which looked at randomly selected records from 500 older patients over age 60 who received treatment at the school’s on-campus clinic.”Thirty to 40 per cent of the population is an exceptionally high rate of incidence for any disorder,” said Dr. Leat.This is the first study to quantify binocular vision loss with age and show a connection with antidepressant use and general health. Conditions such as diabetes and thyroid disease are known to cause such problems, but this is the first study to link binocular vision disorders with overall general health. Similarly other writers have discussed a possible association between certain antidepressant drugs and specific binocular vision disorders, but this is the first study to actually demonstrate a link between antidepressant use and binocular vision and eye movement disorders.”An association does not establish that one causes the other, but rather that they co-exist,” said Dr. Leat. “It is possible that the effects of poor vision mean that people are more likely to take anti-depressants or make less healthy lifestyle choices.”Although the study suggests that the rate of binocular vision disorders in older adults is higher than expected, there is good news. …


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For some, money will not buy happiness: Neither life experiences nor material items make materialistic shoppers happier

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Many shoppers, whether they buy material items or life experiences, are no happier following the purchase than they were before, according to a new study from San Francisco State University.Although previous research has shown experiences create greater happiness for buyers, the study suggests that certain material buyers — those who tend to purchase material goods — may be an exception to this rule. The study is detailed in an article to be published in the June edition of the Journal of Research in Personality.”Everyone has been told if you spend your money on life experiences, it will make you happier, but we found that isn’t always the case,” said Ryan Howell, an associate professor of psychology at SF State and co-author of the study. “Extremely material buyers, who represent about a third of the overall population, are sort of stuck. They’re not really happy with either purchase.”Researchers found that when material buyers purchase life experiences, they are no happier because the purchase is likely out of line with their personality and values. But if they spend on material items, they are not better off either, because others may criticize or look down upon their choices.”I’m a baseball fan. If you tell me, ‘Go spend money on a life experience,’ and I buy tickets to a baseball game, that would be authentic to who I am, and it will probably make me happy,” Howell said. “On the other hand, I’m not a big museum guy. If I bought tickets to an art museum, I would be spending money on a life experience that seems like it would be the right choice, but because it’s not true to my personality, I’m not going to be any happier as a result.”Although the link between experiential purchases and happiness had been well demonstrated, Howell said few studies have examined the types of people who experience no benefits. To do so, he and his colleagues surveyed shoppers to find out if there were any factors that limited the happiness boost from experiential purchases. The researchers found that those who tend to spend money on material items reported no happiness boost from experiential purchases because those purchases did not give them an increased sense of “identity expression” — the belief that they bought something that reflected their personality.”The results show it is not correct to say to everyone, ‘If you spend money on life experiences you’ll be happier,’ because you need to take into account the values of the buyer,” said Jia Wei Zhang, the lead author of the study and a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley who conducted the research with Howell while an undergraduate at SF State.Reasons someone may buy a life experience that doesn’t reflect his or her personality include a desire to fit in or spend time with others, according to Zhang. …


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"Charismatic" organisms still dominating genomics research

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Decades after the genomics revolution, half of known eukaryote lineages still remain unstudied at the genomic level–with the field displaying a research bias against ‘less popular’, but potentially genetically rich, single-cell organisms.This lack of microbial representation leaves a world of untapped genetic potential undiscovered, according to an exhaustive survey conducted by UBC researchers of on-going genomics projects. The survey results are published in the May issue of Trends in Ecology and Evolution.”We’re still mostly analyzing the same well-known eukaryotic groups: animals, fungi and plants, in large part because their utility is more obvious, they are closer to us as humans, and frankly because we can see them with the naked eye,” says Javier del Campo, lead author on the paper and an expert on the microbial ecology of protists, complex single-celled organisms.”But from a biological diversity and a genomic point of view this anthropocentric approach is irrelevant, and potentially holds us back. We’re missing the opportunity to study most of the planet’s eukaryotic diversity, which means we’re missing the opportunity to study a host of alternative life strategies, novel metabolic pathways, new gene functions.”The authors call for a broader, objective and species relationship-based initiative to sequence microbial eukaryotic genomes so that the breadth of their diversity is covered.BackgroundThe researchers analyzed all the genome research projects in operation–or projected to launch–and found that 51% of known eukaryotic lineages are not yet represented or studied at a genomic level.Genomic database holdings are heavily biased against complex single cell organisms, particularly the Rhizaria, Amoebozoa and heterotrophic Stramenopiles lineages.The study also analyzed the five largest eukaryotic culture collections, and determined that up to 25% of the described eukaryotic lineages have no representatives in culture.Story Source:The above story is based on materials provided by University of British Columbia. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.


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Coached extracurricular activities may help prevent pre-adolescent smoking, drinking

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Dartmouth researchers have found that tweens (preadolescents aged 10-14) who participate in a coached team sport a few times a week or more are less likely to try smoking. Their findings on the relationship between extracurricular activity and health risk behaviors are reported in “The relative roles of types of extracurricular activity on smoking and drinking initiation among tweens,” which was recently published in Academic Pediatrics.”How children spend their time matters,” said lead author Anna M. Adachi-Mejia, PhD, a member of Norris Cotton Cancer Center’s Cancer Control Research Program. “In a nationally representative sample we found that tweens who participate in sports with a coach were less likely to try smoking. Parents and guardians may think that tweens need less adult supervision when they are not in school. However, our research suggests that certain coached extracurricular activities can help prevent tween smoking and drinking.”Researchers conducted a telephone survey of 6,522 US students between 10 and 14 years old in 2003 to determine if the influence of any kind of sport, versus sports where a coach is present, would be associated with risk of smoking and drinking. They developed a novel approach to examine the relation between extracurricular activities and adolescent smoking and drinking. Measures included participation in team sports with a coach, other sports without a coach, music, school clubs, and other clubs. A little over half of the students reported participating in team sports with a coach (55.5 percent) and without a coach (55.4 percent) a few times per week or more. Many had minimal to no participation in school clubs (74.2 percent); however, most reported being involved in other clubs (85.8 percent). …


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Neanderthals were not inferior to modern humans, study finds

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If you think Neanderthals were stupid and primitive, it’s time to think again.The widely held notion that Neanderthals were dimwitted and that their inferior intelligence allowed them to be driven to extinction by the much brighter ancestors of modern humans is not supported by scientific evidence, according to a researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder.Neanderthals thrived in a large swath of Europe and Asia between about 350,000 and 40,000 years ago. They disappeared after our ancestors, a group referred to as “anatomically modern humans,” crossed into Europe from Africa.In the past, some researchers have tried to explain the demise of the Neanderthals by suggesting that the newcomers were superior to Neanderthals in key ways, including their ability to hunt, communicate, innovate and adapt to different environments.But in an extensive review of recent Neanderthal research, CU-Boulder researcher Paola Villa and co-author Wil Roebroeks, an archaeologist at Leiden University in the Netherlands, make the case that the available evidence does not support the opinion that Neanderthals were less advanced than anatomically modern humans. Their paper was published today in the journal PLOS ONE.”The evidence for cognitive inferiority is simply not there,” said Villa, a curator at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History. “What we are saying is that the conventional view of Neanderthals is not true.”Villa and Roebroeks scrutinized nearly a dozen common explanations for Neanderthal extinction that rely largely on the notion that the Neanderthals were inferior to anatomically modern humans. These include the hypotheses that Neanderthals did not use complex, symbolic communication; that they were less efficient hunters who had inferior weapons; and that they had a narrow diet that put them at a competitive disadvantage to anatomically modern humans, who ate a broad range of things.The researchers found that none of the hypotheses were supported by the available research. For example, evidence from multiple archaeological sites in Europe suggests that Neanderthals hunted as a group, using the landscape to aid them.Researchers have shown that Neanderthals likely herded hundreds of bison to their death by steering them into a sinkhole in southwestern France. At another site used by Neanderthals, this one in the Channel Islands, fossilized remains of 18 mammoths and five woolly rhinoceroses were discovered at the base of a deep ravine. These findings imply that Neanderthals could plan ahead, communicate as a group and make efficient use of their surroundings, the authors said.Other archaeological evidence unearthed at Neanderthal sites provides reason to believe that Neanderthals did in fact have a diverse diet. Microfossils found in Neanderthal teeth and food remains left behind at cooking sites indicate that they may have eaten wild peas, acorns, pistachios, grass seeds, wild olives, pine nuts and date palms depending on what was locally available.Additionally, researchers have found ochre, a kind of earth pigment, at sites inhabited by Neanderthals, which may have been used for body painting. Ornaments have also been collected at Neanderthal sites. …


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