News tagged with hominids


Ardi

Science's breakthrough of the year: Uncovering 'Ardi'

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

The research that brought to light the fossils of Ardipithecus ramidus, a hominid species that lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia, has topped Science's list of this year's most significant s ...


High-tech tests allow anthropologists to track ancient hominids across the landscape

High-tech tests allow anthropologists to track ancient hominids across the landscape

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Feb 12, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Dazzling new scientific techniques are allowing archaeologists to track the movements and menus of extinct hominids through the seasons and years as they ate their way across the African landscape, helping ...





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Archaeological study of ostrich eggshell beads collected from SDG site

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Ostrich eggshell (OES) beads from SDG site reflect primordial art and a kind of symbolic behavior of modern humans. Two different manufacturing pathways are usually used in the manufacture of OES beads in Upper Paleolithic. ...


Robotic perception, on purpose

Robotic perception, on purpose

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers developed technology that enables a robot to combine data from both sound and vision to create combined, purposeful perception. In the process, they have taken the field ...


Australopithecus afarensis, 'Lucy'

Ancient 'Lucy' Species Ate A Different Diet Than Previously Thought

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (13) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research examining microscopic marks on the teeth of the "Lucy" species Australopithecus afarensis suggests that the ancient hominid ate a different diet than the tooth enamel, size and sh ...


Manthropology: The Science of the Inadequate Modern Male

Modern men are wimps, according to new book

Biology / Evolution

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (40) | comments 40 weblog

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new book claims even modern athletes could not run as fast, jump as high, or have been nearly as strong as our predecessors.


MU research team establishes family tree for cattle, other ruminants

Research team establishes family tree for cattle, other ruminants

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Pairing a new approach to prepare ancient DNA with a new scientific technique developed specifically to genotype a cow, an MU animal scientist, along with a team of international researchers, created a very ...


Before 'Lucy,' there was 'Ardi': Oldest hominid skeleton provides new evidence for human evolution

Before 'Lucy,' there was 'Ardi': Oldest hominid skeleton provides new evidence for human evolution (w/ Video)

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (35) | comments 1

In a special issue of Science, an international team of scientists has for the first time thoroughly described Ardipithecus ramidus, a hominid species that lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiop ...


Komodo dragon

Rediscovering the dragon's paradise lost

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2

The world's largest living lizard species, the Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis), is vulnerable to extinction and yet little is known about its natural history. New research by a team of palaeontologists and ar ...


Model head of a Neanderthal man.

Researchers Probe Links Between Modern Humans and Neanderthals

Biology / Evolution

created Sep 19, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (20) | comments 6

Which genes make us uniquely human? Scientists are looking at DNA in old bones to find out. The focus now is not so much on our own species, Homo sapiens. Instead, scientists are probing DNA in well-preserved pieces ...


Making Jupiters

Making Jupiters

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Aug 21, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3

IC348 is a glowing nebula of young stars, hot gas, and cold dust seen in the direction of the constellation of Perseus. It is the nearest rich cluster of young stars to earth, being only about one thousand ...


Early human hunters had fewer meat-sharing rituals

Early human hunters had fewer meat-sharing rituals

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0

A University of Arizona anthropologist has discovered that humans living at a Paleolithic cave site in central Israel between 400,000 and 250,000 years ago were as successful at big-game hunting as were later ...



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