News tagged with early human ancestors
Neanderthal demise due to many influences, including cultural changes: study
As an ice age crept upon them thousands of years ago, Neanderthals and modern human ancestors expanded their territory ranges across Asia and Europe to adapt to the changing environment.
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Feb 07, 2012 |
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Neanderthals and their contemporaries engineered stone tools
(PhysOrg.com) -- New published research from anthropologists at the University of Kent has scientifically supported for the first time the long held theory that early human ancestors across Africa, Western ...
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Jan 24, 2012 |
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Endangered orangutans offer a new evolutionary model for early humans
Starving orangutans in Borneo may be teaching us new lessons about human evolution.
Dec 13, 2011 |
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Ancient footprints show human-like walking began nearly four million years ago
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Liverpool have found that ancient footprints in Laetoli, Tanzania, show that human-like features of the feet and gait existed almost two million years earlier ...
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Jul 20, 2011 |
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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.
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Apr 18, 2011 |
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Scientists make bamboo tools to test theory explaining East Asia's Stone Age tool scarcity
The long-held theory that early human ancestors in East Asia crafted their tools from bamboo and wood is much more complicated than originally conceived, according to a new study.
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Apr 08, 2011 |
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Archaeologists discover oldest-known fiber materials used by early humans
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of archaeologists and paleobiologists has discovered flax fibers that are more than 34,000 years old, making them the oldest fibers known to have been used by humans. The fibers, discovered ...
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Sep 10, 2009 |
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