News tagged with homo erectus
Harvard scientist says we are what we eat -- and what we cook
Jun 01, 2009 |
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"You are what you eat." Can these pithy words explain the evolution of the human species?
Hippo's island life helps explain dwarf hobbit (w/Video)
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May 07, 2009 |
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Ancient Madagascan hippos have shed light on the origins of the small brain of the 1-metre-tall human, known as the hobbit, scientists at the Natural History Museum report in the journal Nature today.
Culture skews human evolution
Mar 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The rise of agriculture 10,000 years ago meant the end of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle for which human beings had been optimized by millions of years of evolution and the beginning of an ...
'Peking Man' older than thought; somehow adapted to cold
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Mar 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new dating method has found that "Peking Man" is around 200,000 years older than previously thought, suggesting he somehow adapted to the cold of a mild glacial period.
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Prehistoric pelvis offers clues to human development
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Nov 13, 2008 |
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Discovery of the most intact female pelvis of Homo erectus may cause scientists to reevaluate how early humans evolved to successfully birth larger-brained babies. "This is the most complete female Homo erectus ...
Exciting New Kenyan Fossils Challenge Established Views on Early Evolution of Our Genus Homo
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Aug 08, 2007 |
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Two new fossils, described this week in the journal Nature, cast fresh light on a little understood and important period of human prehistory at the dawn of our own genus, Homo.
1.5 million-year-old fossil humans walked on modern feet (Video)
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Feb 26, 2009 |
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Ancient footprints found at Rutgers' Koobi Fora Field School show that some of the earliest humans walked like us and did so on anatomically modern feet 1.5 million years ago.
Most ancient case of tuberculosis found in 500,000-year-old human; points to modern health issues
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Dec 07, 2007 |
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Although most scientists believe tuberculosis emerged only several thousand years ago, new research from The University of Texas at Austin reveals the most ancient evidence of the disease has been found in ...
'Hobbit' fossils represent a new species, concludes UM anthropologist
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Dec 17, 2008 |
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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 ...
Research confirms theory that all modern humans descended from the same small group of people
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May 08, 2007 |
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Researchers have produced new DNA evidence that almost certainly confirms the theory that all modern humans have a common ancestry.
Neanderthal bearing teeth
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Dec 04, 2007 |
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An international European research collaboration led by scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology reports evidence for a rapid developmental pattern in a 100,000 year old Belgian ...
Ancient footprints open to public in Italy
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Oct 09, 2007 |
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Italian researchers have opened two tourist paths to follow in the oldest known human footsteps at the extinct Roccamonfina volcano north of Naples.
Creationists object to evolution exhibit
Nov 09, 2007 |
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An unprecedented exhibit of early human fossils at a Kenyan museum has pitted religious creationists against scientists.
Darwin's Tree of Life May Be More Like a Thicket
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Jan 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In On The Origin of Species, Darwin used the image of a tree of life to illustrate how species evolve, one from another. Even today, branches sprouting from lower branches (representing ancest ...
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