News tagged with human skulls
Human skull study causes evolutionary headache
Scientists studying a unique collection of human skulls have shown that changes to the skull shape thought to have occurred independently through separate evolutionary events may have actually precipitated each other.
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Dec 20, 2011 |
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It's dim up north
The farther that human populations live from the equator, the bigger their brains, according to a new study by Oxford University. But it turns out that this is not because they are smarter, but because they ...
Jul 27, 2011 |
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Texas Ed Board compromises on evolution materials
(AP) -- The Texas State Board of Education gave final approval to supplemental high school science materials on Friday, delivering a blow to the board's social conservatives after a brief flare-up over some ...
Jul 22, 2011 |
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Farming to blame for our shrinking size and brains
(PhysOrg.com) -- At Britain's Royal Society, Dr. Marta Lahr from Cambridge University's Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies presented her findings that the height and brain size of modern-day ...
Jun 15, 2011 |
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British cave yields ice-age skull cups
Ice age Britons drank from human skulls and may even have eaten flesh and bone marrow, but they were far from barbarians.
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Feb 17, 2011 |
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Researchers offer alternate theory for found skull's asymmetry
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new turn in the debate over explanations for the odd features of LB1 -- the specimen number of the only skull found in Liang Bua Cave on the Indonesian island of Flores and sometimes called "the hobbit" ...
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Sep 06, 2010 |
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Humans have a mighty bite: Size matters, but efficiency matters more
The robust jaws and formidable teeth of some of our ancestors and ape cousins may suggest that humans are wimps when it comes to producing a powerful bite: but a new study has found the opposite is true, with ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 22, 2010 |
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Family tree branches out
(PhysOrg.com) -- UNSW anthropologist Dr Darren Curnoe has identified another new early human ancestor in South Africa ? the earliest recognised species of Homo.
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May 20, 2010 |
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Cro Magnon skull shows that our brains have shrunk
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new replica of an early modern human brain has provided further evidence for the theory that the human brain has been shrinking. The skull belonged to an elderly Cro Magnon man, whose skeleton ...
Mar 15, 2010 |
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New technology helps scientists understand ancient fossils
Some of the world's oldest human bones and other ancient relics are studied here using some of the world's newest technologies.
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Dec 07, 2009 |
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Ancient 'Lucy' Species Ate A Different Diet Than Previously Thought
(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 ...
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Oct 22, 2009 |
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Early Human Skulls Shaped for Nut-Cracking (Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research conducted in part by researchers at The George Washington University has led to novel insights into how feeding and dietary adaptations may have shaped the evolution of the earliest ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 03, 2009 |
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Trophy heads reveal secrets about ancient South American civilization
The Nasca civilization is perhaps best known for the drawings its people etched onto the desert floor in southwest Peru, a massive and mysterious body of simple and intricate works that span several hundred square miles.
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Jan 08, 2009 |
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