Two herpes simplex viruses infect primates from unknown evolutionary depths. In modern humans these viruses manifest as cold sores (HSV1) and genital herpes (HSV2).
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Old tools and bones can reveal a lot about our ancestors. But when it comes to what was going on inside their bodies – such as what they ate and how healthy they were – nothing can really beat a well-preserved row of ...
Archaeology
Aug 29, 2017
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It's been the scientific equivalent of a never ending soap opera. The pygmy human species Homo floresiensis (aka 'the Hobbit'), discovered in 2003 in a cave on the island of Flores, has been bogged down in a mire of controversy ...
Archaeology
Apr 24, 2017
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The most comprehensive study on the bones of Homo floresiensis, a species of tiny human discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003, has found that they most likely evolved from an ancestor in Africa and not from ...
Archaeology
Apr 21, 2017
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Fossil bones and stone tools can tell us a lot about human evolution, but certain dynamic behaviours of our fossil ancestors – things like how they moved and how individuals interacted with one another – are incredibly ...
Archaeology
Jul 12, 2016
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The scientific debate continues over the bones of the mysterious human-like creature Homo floresiensis – nicknamed "Hobbits" – with the discovery of new fossils in the So'a Basin on the island of Flores, Indonesia, dating ...
Archaeology
Jun 9, 2016
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Half-sized humans who lived 700,000 years ago were almost certainly the ancestors of enigmatic "hobbits" whose fossils were found on the same Indonesian isle in 2013, scientists stunned by their own discovery reported Wednesday.
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When a skeleton of the so-called 'Hobbit' - scientific name Homo floresiensis - was unearthed in Indonesia in 2003 it would go on to cause a major furor in anthropological circles like few others before it.
Archaeology
Apr 5, 2016
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Political and economic pundits constantly remind us that this is the 'Asian Century', and it's shaping up to be that way also for human origins science.
Archaeology
Feb 8, 2016
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There has been global interest in the announcement of new fossils from a cave called Rising Star in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site in South Africa.
Archaeology
Nov 30, 2015
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