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Early modern humans use fire to engineer tools from stone
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Aug 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Evidence that early modern humans living on the coast of the far southern tip of Africa 72,000 years ago employed pyrotechnology - the controlled use of fire - to increase the quality and ...
Anthropologist's studies of childbirth bring new focus on women in evolution
Feb 17, 2009 |
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Contrary to the TV sitcom where the wife experiencing strong labor pains screams at her husband to stay away from her, women rarely give birth alone. There are typically doctors, nurses and husbands in hospital ...
Early Human Skulls Shaped for Nut-Cracking (Video)
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Feb 03, 2009 |
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(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 ...
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Handsome by Chance
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Aug 02, 2007 |
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Chance, not natural selection, best explains why the modern human skull looks so different from that of its Neanderthal relative, according to a new study led by Tim Weaver, assistant professor of anthropology at UC Davis.
Anthropologist Says Tree Climbing Abilities of Early Hominins Decreased Rapidly in Evolutionary Process
Apr 15, 2009 |
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Jeremy M. DeSilva an anthropologist at Worcester University in Massachusetts has published "Functional Morphology of the Ankle and the Likelihood of Climbing in Early Hominins," in the peer-reviewed journal, ...
Man's earliest direct ancestors looked more apelike than previously believed
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Mar 25, 2007 |
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Modern man"s earliest known close ancestor was significantly more apelike than previously believed, a New York University College of Dentistry professor has found.
New research confirms Indonesian 'Hobbit' was a new species
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Sep 20, 2007 |
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An international team of researchers led by the Smithsonian Institution has completed a new study on Homo floresiensis, commonly referred to as the “hobbit,” a 3-foot-tall, 18,000-year-old hominin skeleton, discovered four ...
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 ...
Humans related to orangutans, not chimps
Jun 18, 2009 |
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New evidence underscores the theory of human origin that suggests humans most likely share a common ancestor with orangutans, according to research from the University of Pittsburgh and the Buffalo Museum of ...
Before 'Lucy,' there was 'Ardi': Oldest hominid skeleton provides new evidence for human evolution (w/ Video)
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Oct 01, 2009 |
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In a special issue of Science, an international team of scientists has for the first time thoroughly described Ardipithecus ramidus, a hominid species that lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiop ...
Bone parts don't add up to conclusion of Palauan dwarfs
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Aug 27, 2008 |
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Misinterpreted fragments of leg bones, teeth and brow ridges found in Palau appear to be an archaeologist's undoing, according to researchers at three institutions. They say that the so-called dwarfs of these ...
Earliest evidence for modern human behavior found in South African cave
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Oct 17, 2007 |
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Evidence of early humans living on the coast in South Africa, harvesting food from the sea, employing complex small stone tools and using red pigments in symbolic behavior 164,000 years ago, far earlier than previously documented, ...
Scientists narrow time limits for human, chimp split
Dec 20, 2005 |
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A team of researchers has proposed new limits on the time when the most recent common ancestor of humans and their closest ape relatives – the chimpanzees – lived. Scientists at Arizona State University and ...
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