News tagged with human teeth

Researchers Crack the Mystery of Resilient Teeth

(PhysOrg.com) -- After years of biting and chewing, how are human teeth able to remain intact and functional? A team of researchers from The George Washington University and other international scholars have ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 0

Ongoing evolution among modern humans

(PhysOrg.com) -- It has long been the common perception that once modern humans appeared more than 50,000 years ago, little has changed in human biology.

Biology / Evolution

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Homo sapiens arrived in Europe earlier than previously believed

Members of our species (Homo sapiens) arrived in Europe several millennia earlier than previously thought. At this conclusion a team of researchers, led by the Department of Anthropology, University of Vie ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

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New research suggests right-handedness prevailed 500,000 years ago

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research by University of Kansas professor David Frayer shows that distinctive markings on fossilized teeth correlate to the right or left-handedness of individual prehistoric humans.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

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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.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Apr 18, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Two-million-year-old evidence shows tool-making hominins inhabited grassland environments

In an article published in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE on October 21, 2009, Dr Thomas Plummer of Queens College at the City University of New York, Dr Richard Potts of the Smithsonian Institution Nation ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New evidence for the earliest modern humans in Europe

The timing, process and archeology of the peopling of Europe by early modern humans have been actively debated for more than a century. Reassessment of the anatomy and dating of a fragmentary upper jaw with ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Nanocrystals make dentures shine

German chemists succeeded in producing a new kind of glass-ceramic with a nanocrystalline structure, which seems to be well suited to be used in dentistry due to their high strength and its optical characteristics. ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Endangered orangutans offer a new evolutionary model for early humans

Starving orangutans in Borneo may be teaching us new lessons about human evolution.

Biology / Evolution

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Trapped dental 'calculus' holds clues to ancient human diets and health

Many ancient human teeth, including specimens tens of thousands of years old, still hold onto tiny pieces of food -- and even bacteria. Anthropologists are studying the tartar attached to ancient human teeth ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

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