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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.

Biology / Evolution

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

No nuts for 'Nutcracker Man': Early human relative apparently chewed grass instead

(PhysOrg.com) -- For decades, a 2.3 million- to 1.2 million-year-old human relative named Paranthropus boisei has been nicknamed Nutcracker Man because of his big, flat molar teeth and thick, powerful jaw. ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 02, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast




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A long-held assumption confirmed: We can learn a lot from other species' genes

Researchers at the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute have confirmed the long-held belief that studying the genes we share with other animals is useful. The study, published ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Evolution in an island, the secret for a longer life

ICP researchers published today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B one of the first fossil-based evidences supporting the evolutionary theory of ageing, which predicts that species evolving in low mo ...

Biology / Evolution

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

New study traces the evolutionary history of what mammals eat

The feeding habits of mammals haven't always been what they are today, particularly for omnivores, finds a new study.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Looking a trophy buck in the mouth

Researchers at the Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Center in Uvalde have developed a more accurate technique than traditional methods for estimating the age of white-tailed bucks, said a Texas AgriLife Research scientist ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

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Scientists use physical experiments, computer modelling to explore efficiency of bladed tooth shape

Using a combination of guillotine-based experiments and cutting-edge computer modelling, researchers at the University of Bristol have explored the most efficient ways for teeth to slice food. Their results, ...

Biology / Other

created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Fossil teeth of Gigantopithecus found from Yunnan-Guizhou plateau

Pleistocene Gigantopithecus blacki is the largest species of all extinct and extant primates. Its diet, distribution and evolution remained unclear. According to a paper in press in the journal of Quaternary In ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The evolution of division of labor

Division of labour is not only a defining feature of human societies but is also omnipresent among the building blocks of biological organisms and is considered a major theme of evolution. Theoretical Biologists Claus Rueffler ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

New cervid species found in middle miocene of Nei Mongol, China

Wang Li-Hua, a graduate student paleontologist from Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, identified a new species of cervid, Euprox altus, from the Middle ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

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New technologies challenge old ideas about early hominid diets

New assessments by researchers using the latest high-tech tools to study the diets of early hominids are challenging long-held assumptions about what our ancestors ate, says a study by the University of Colorado ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Mole rat dental structure similar to a shark

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sharks are capable of continually growing new teeth. As the teeth age, they fall out and new ones move forward similar to that of a tooth conveyor belt. Humans, and most mammals, on the other ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report


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