News tagged with hominins

New analysis shows 'hobbits' couldn't hustle

May 06, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (13) | 0

A detailed analysis of the feet of Homo floresiensis—the miniature hominins who lived on a remote island in eastern Indonesia until 18,000 years ago -- may help settle a question hotly debated among paleontologists: how si ...

Anthropologist Says Tree Climbing Abilities of Early Hominins Decreased Rapidly in Evolutionary Process

Biology / Evolution

Apr 15, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

Jeremy M. DeSilva an anthropologist at Worcester University in Massachusetts has published "Functional Morphology of the Ankle and the Likelihood of Climbing in Early Hominins," in the peer-reviewed journal, ...

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'Hobbits' are a new human species -- according to the statistical analysis of fossils

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Nov 19, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (11) | 0

Researchers from Stony Brook University Medical Center in New York have confirmed that Homo floresiensis is a genuine ancient human species and not a descendant of healthy humans dwarfed by disease. Using ...

Two-million-year-old evidence shows tool-making hominins inhabited grassland environments

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Oct 21, 2009 | 3.5 / 5 (2) | 0

In an article published in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE on October 21, 2009, Dr Thomas Plummer of Queens College at the City University of New York, Dr Richard Potts of the Smithsonian Institution Nation ...

Primate archaeology, proposal of a new research field

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Jul 16, 2009 | 3.7 / 5 (3) | 0

The use of tools by hominins - the primate group which includes humans (Homo) and chimpanzees and bonobos (Pan) - has been extensively researched by archaeologists and primatologists, both of who manifest the relevance of ...

Primate archaeology sheds light on human origins

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Jul 15, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (12) | 1

A University of Calgary archaeologist who is one of the few researchers in the world studying the material culture of human beings' closest living relatives - the great apes - is joining his colleagues in ...

Snakes and how they helped our big brains evolve

Biology / Evolution

May 01, 2009 | 3.6 / 5 (9) | 2

The threat of snakes gave primates superior vision and large brains -- and fueled a critical aspect of human evolution, UC Davis anthropology professor Lynne Isbell argues in a new book.

ASU genetics research sheds light on evolution of the human diet

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Feb 12, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

Diet - and how it has shaped our genome - occupies much of an evolutionary scientist's time. Anne Stone, associate professor of anthropology in Arizona State University's School of Human Evolution and Social Change, will ...

'Hobbit' fossils represent a new species, concludes UM anthropologist

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Dec 17, 2008 | 4.6 / 5 (15) | 2

University of Minnesota anthropology professor Kieran McNulty (along with colleague Karen Baab of Stony Brook University in New York) has made an important contribution toward solving one of the greatest paleoanthropological ...

Bone parts don't add up to conclusion of Palauan dwarfs

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Aug 27, 2008 | 3.4 / 5 (5) | 0

Misinterpreted fragments of leg bones, teeth and brow ridges found in Palau appear to be an archaeologist's undoing, according to researchers at three institutions. They say that the so-called dwarfs of these ...

Anropologist explores plausibility of bulbs and tubers in the diet of early human ancestors

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Aug 20, 2008 | 4.1 / 5 (7) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- It was a dirty job, but somebody had to do it. Anthropologist Nathaniel J. Dominy of the University of California, Santa Cruz, has advanced the investigation of the diet of early human ancestors ...