• Study calls for review into census capture of 'mixed' populations

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  Current methods of capturing mixed race/ethnicity populations in global censuses are unreliable, and must be reviewed to ensure increasingly diverse populations are effectively reported, a study published today in Ethnic ...

• Pew poll: A quarter of blacks have been harassed online

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  A new study says African-American adults are facing more harassment online than other races and ethnicities in the United States.

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  Isotopes in prehistoric cattle teeth suggest herding strategies used during the Neolithic

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  Analysis of strontium isotopes in teeth from Neolithic cattle suggest that early Europeans used different specialized herding strategies, according to a study published July 26, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by ...

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  Traces of adaptation and cultural diversification found among early North American stone tools

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  Using new methods to analyze stone projectile points crafted by North America's earliest human inhabitants, Smithsonian scientists have found that these tools show evidence of a shift toward more experimentation in their ...

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  Identifying major transitions in human cultural evolution

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  Over the past 10,000 years human cultures have expanded from small groups of hunter-gatherers to colossal and complexly organized societies. The secrets to how and why this major cultural transition occurred have largely ...

• Managers often fail to use or understand their own data on customer satisfaction

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  Despite the millions companies spend to gather information about customer satisfaction, senior managers often fail to understand those customers' expectations.

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  Early human's ability to survive through prolonged arid areas in southern Africa

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  The flexibility and ability to adapt to changing climates by employing various cultural innovations allowed communities of early humans to survive through a prolonged period of pronounced aridification.

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  Studies help understand why some people are so sure they're right

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  Dogmatic individuals hold confidently to their beliefs, even when experts disagree and evidence contradicts them. New research from Case Western Reserve University may help explain the extreme perspectives, on religion, politics ...

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  Large-mouthed fish was top predator after mass extinction

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  The most catastrophic mass extinction on Earth took place about 252 million years ago – at the boundary between the Permian and Triassic geological periods. Up to 90 percent of the marine species of that time were annihilated. ...

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  Archaeology shows there's more to millet than birdseed

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  Archaeological research shows that our prehistoric ancestors built resilience into their food supply. Now archaeologists say 'forgotten' millet – a cereal familiar today as birdseed – has a role to play in modern crop ...