News tagged with nutcracker
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
Oct 13, 2011 |
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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
May 02, 2011 |
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Researchers unravel ways capuchin monkeys select effective tools
(PhysOrg.com) -- When Tchaikovsky penned The Nutcracker, the last thing he probably had in mind was a capuchin monkey. And yet new research, co-directed by a researcher at the University of Georgia, is changing our view about ...
Biology /
Feb 04, 2009 |
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