News tagged with walk upright
New model suggests early humans lost fur after developing bipedalism
(PhysOrg.com) -- Two of the most basic questions in the study of human evolution revolve around why early people started walking around on two feet instead of four and why they lost their fur, especially in ...
Dec 13, 2011 |
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Couple finds evidence indicating earliest humans lived by rivers and streams
(PhysOrg.com) -- When many people think of our earliest human ancestors, they think of the hot dried out dusty environments in Africa in which many of their remains were found. Unfortunately, such images don’t ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 26, 2011 |
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Research team shows cultural practices can cause biological evolution
(PhysOrg.com) -- When most people think of evolution, they think of animals growing bigger or smaller over generations due to food types or source, bacteria evolving resistance to drugs, or of humans losing their fur and ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Dec 20, 2011 |
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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.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 20, 2011 |
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Scientists discover how brain corrects bumps to body
Researchers have identified the area of the brain that controls our ability to correct our movement after we've been hit or bumped -- a finding that may have implications for understanding why subjects with stroke often have ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 05, 2011 |
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New insights into how humans learn to walk
(Medical Xpress) -- A new study has revealed that as humans learn to walk the two basic patterns of stepping present in the newborn remain unchanged and two new patterns are added at the toddler stage. This ...
Nov 18, 2011 |
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No need to shrink guts to have a larger brain
Brain tissue is a major consumer of energy in the body. If an animal species evolves a larger brain than its ancestors, the increased need for energy can be met by either obtaining additional sources of food or by a trade-off ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 09, 2011 |
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Blame backbone fractures on evolution, not osteoporosis
Osteoporosis is blamed for backbone fractures. The real culprit could well be our own vertebrae, which evolved to absorb the pounding of upright walking, researchers at Case Western Reserve University say.
Oct 20, 2011 |
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Fossil discovery supports evolutionary link between Australopiths and Homo
Skeletal remains found in a South African cave may yield new clues to human development and answer key questions of the evolution of the human lineage, according to a series of papers released today in Scien ...
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Sep 08, 2011 |
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Modern humans interbred with more archaic hominin forms even before they migrated out of Africa: study
It is now widely accepted that the species Homo sapiens originated in Africa and eventually spread throughout the world. But did those early humans interbreed with more ancestral forms of the genus Homo, for ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 05, 2011 |
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Robots learn to handle objects, understand places
(PhysOrg.com) -- Infants spend their first few months learning to find their way around and manipulating objects, and they are very flexible about it: Cups can come in different shapes and sizes, but they ...
Sep 02, 2011 |
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