Humans: Science news of the year, 2008

Read summaries of the year's best stories on research about human history and behavior.

Science News writers and editors looked back at the past year’s stories and selected a handful as the year’s most interesting and important in Humans. Follow hotlinks to the full, original stories.

A Pirahã man participates in a new experiment that, researchers say, indicates that his language contains no number words, even for the number one.
A Pirahã man participates in a new experiment that, researchers say, indicates that his language contains no number words, even for the number one.