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If these teeth could talk: What was really on the menus of our ancestors?
For human ancestors, eating could be hard work.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 18, 2011 |
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Fossil find puts a face on early primates (w/ Video)
When paleontologist Iyad Zalmout went looking for fossil whales and dinosaurs in Saudi Arabia, he never expected to come face-to-face with a significant, early primate fossil.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 14, 2010 |
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Is the Hobbit's brain unfeasibly small?
(PhysOrg.com) -- The commonly held assumption that as primates evolved, their brains always tended to get bigger has been challenged by a team of scientists at Cambridge and Durham. Their work helps solve ...
Jan 27, 2010 |
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Gibbon feet provide model for early human walking
Scientists at the University of Liverpool have found that early humans could have walked successfully on a 'flexible' flat foot, similar to modern day gibbons.
Biology /
Dec 15, 2008 |
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Floppy-footed gibbons help us understand how early humans may have walked
The human foot is a miracle of evolution. We can keep striding for miles on our well-sprung feet. There is nothing else like them, not even amongst our closest living relatives. According to Evie Vereecke, from the University ...
Biology /
Nov 17, 2008 |
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Missing link shows bats flew first, developed echolocation later
The discovery of a remarkably well-preserved fossil representing the most primitive bat species known to date demonstrates that the animals evolved the ability to fly before they could echolocate.
Biology /
Feb 13, 2008 |
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Exciting New Kenyan Fossils Challenge Established Views on Early Evolution of Our Genus Homo
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.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Aug 08, 2007 |
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Human ancestors had short legs for combat, not just climbing
Ape-like human ancestors known as australopiths maintained short legs for 2 million years because a squat physique and stance helped the males fight over access to females, a University of Utah study concludes.
Biology /
Mar 12, 2007 |
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