News tagged with hominids
Modern men are wimps, according to new book
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new book claims even modern athletes could not run as fast, jump as high, or have been nearly as strong as our predecessors.
Oct 21, 2009 |
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Research team establishes family tree for cattle, other ruminants
Pairing a new approach to prepare ancient DNA with a new scientific technique developed specifically to genotype a cow, an MU animal scientist, along with a team of international researchers, created a very ...
Oct 19, 2009 |
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Early hominid first walked on two legs in the woods
Among the many surprises associated with the discovery of the oldest known, nearly complete skeleton of a hominid is the finding that this species took its first steps toward bipedalism not on the open, grassy ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 08, 2009 |
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Before 'Lucy,' there was 'Ardi': Oldest hominid skeleton provides new evidence for human evolution (w/ Video)
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 ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 01, 2009 |
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The last supper of the hominids establishes the times they lived at the sites
In the French cave of Arago, an international team of scientists has analyzed the dental wear of the fossils of herbivorous animals hunted by Homo heidelbergensis. It is the first time that an analytical method ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 14, 2009 |
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Spanish researchers describe new hominid
Researchers from the Institut Catalą de Paleontologia (ICP), from Universitat Autňnoma de Barcelona, directed by professor Salvador Moyą-Solą, publish this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 02, 2009 |
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1.5 million-year-old fossil humans walked on modern feet (Video)
Ancient footprints found at Rutgers' Koobi Fora Field School show that some of the earliest humans walked like us and did so on anatomically modern feet 1.5 million years ago.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 26, 2009 |
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High-tech tests allow anthropologists to track ancient hominids across the landscape
Dazzling new scientific techniques are allowing archaeologists to track the movements and menus of extinct hominids through the seasons and years as they ate their way across the African landscape, helping ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 12, 2009 |
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