News tagged with human ancestors
The cost of being on your toes
Feb 12, 2010 |
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Humans, other great apes and bears are among the few animals that step first on the heel when walking, and then roll onto the ball of the foot and toes. Now, a University of Utah study shows the advantage: ...
'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.
'Pompeii-like' excavations tell us more about Toba super-eruption
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Feb 24, 2010 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Newly discovered archaeological sites in southern and northern India have revealed how people lived before and after the colossal Toba volcanic eruption 74,000 years ago.
Obsidian 'trail' provides clues to how humans settled, interacted in Kuril Islands
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Jun 22, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Pubic hair provides evolutionary home for gorilla lice
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Feb 11, 2009 |
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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 ...
Anropologist explores plausibility of bulbs and tubers in the diet of early human ancestors
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Aug 20, 2008 |
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(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 |
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(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 ...
Two-million-year-old evidence shows tool-making hominins inhabited grassland environments
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Oct 21, 2009 |
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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 ...
High-tech tests allow anthropologists to track ancient hominids across the landscape
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Feb 12, 2009 |
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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 |
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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.
