News tagged with human ancestors

'Peking Man' older than thought; somehow adapted to cold

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Mar 11, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (11) | 0

(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.

Obsidian 'trail' provides clues to how humans settled, interacted in Kuril Islands

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Jun 22, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Archaeologists have used stone tools to answer many questions about human ancestors in both the distant and near past and now they are analyzing the origin of obsidian flakes to better understand ...

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

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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 ...

Pubic hair provides evolutionary home for gorilla lice

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Feb 11, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

There are two species of lice that infest humans: pubic lice, Pthirus pubis, and human head and body lice, Pediculus humanus. A new article in BioMed Central's open access Journal of Biology suggests one explanation for ...

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

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Feb 12, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 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 ...

Earliest evidence of our cave-dwelling human ancestors

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Dec 19, 2008 | 3.6 / 5 (5) | 0

A research team led by Professor Michael Chazan, director of the University of Toronto's Archaeology Centre, has discovered the earliest evidence of our cave-dwelling human ancestors at the Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa.

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 ...

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

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Jul 25, 2008 | 4.9 / 5 (10) | 2

(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 ...