News tagged with human paleoecology
Paleoanthropologist writes 'untold story of our salvation'
Inside caves near Mossel Bay, South Africa, a team of explorers have been piecing together an account of survival, ingenuity and endurance -- of the species known as Homo sapiens. Team leader Curtis Marean, a paleoanthropologist ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Aug 05, 2010 |
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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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Ancient trash heaps gave rise to Everglades tree islands
Garbage mounds left by prehistoric humans might have driven the formation of many of the Florida Everglades' tree islands, distinctive havens of exceptional ecological richness in the sprawling marsh that are today threatened ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 21, 2011 |
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When human ancestors evolved in prehistoric Africa, rodents were abundant, diverse
(PhysOrg.com) -- Rodents get a bad rap as vermin and pests because they seem to thrive everywhere. They have been one of the most common mammals in Africa for the past 50 million years.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 21, 2010 |
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Ecologists receive mixed news from fossil record
Paleontologists can't always get what they want, to paraphrase the Rolling Stones, but sometimes they can get what they need, according to a study that will appear in the May issue of the American Naturalist.
Apr 02, 2010 |
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Black rat does not bother Mediterranean seabirds
Human activities have meant invasive species have been able to populate parts of the world to which they are not native and alter biodiversity there over thousands of years. Now, an international team of scientists ...
Oct 02, 2009 |
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Early modern humans use fire to engineer tools from stone
(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 ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Aug 13, 2009 |
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Scientist uses sedimentary record to uncover planet's past
(PhysOrg.com) -- The wind barreled across the ice at Daily Lake as Montana State University paleoecologist Cathy Whitlock and three students used all their strength to pull a metal pipe out of the mucky lake ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 27, 2009 |
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Fertilizers -- a growing threat to sea life
A rise in carbon emissions is not the only threat to the planet. Changes to the nitrogen cycle, caused in large part by the widespread use of fertilizers, are also damaging both water quality and aquatic life. These concerns ...
Oct 21, 2008 |
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Humans inhabited New World's doorstep for 20,000 years
The human journey from Asia to the New World was interrupted by a 20,000-year layover in Beringia, a once-habitable region that today lies submerged under the icy waters of the Bering Strait.
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Feb 13, 2008 |
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Chimps dig up clues to human past?
One of the keys enabling the earliest human ancestors to trade a forest home for more open country may have been the ability to gather underground foods. Now a team of scientists reports for the first time ...
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Nov 12, 2007 |
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The Evolution of Human Diet
A University of Arkansas professor’s most recent work addresses the question of how human eating habits have evolved over millions of years.
Dec 06, 2006 |
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