Investigators at the Indiana University announce the creation of a new computer model depicting the brain of Australopithecus sediba, an ancient hominin species that lived around 2 million years ago.
The creature did not necessarily have a bigger brain than its predecessors, but it was a much better, more efficie... |
13 September 2011 05:22 GMT |
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Bioarchaeology is a relatively new field of science, which focuses its efforts on understanding how ancient people lived their daily lives. Its goal is to piece together a more humanistic view of old societies, than a rigid, scientific one. The Arizona State University is already involved in this work.
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18 June 2011 05:41 GMT |
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Investigators at the Pennsylvania State University argue in a new paper that our love and compassion for all furry creatures may have had a very important influence on how we evolved, as a species. They say that our pets may have been one of the driving forces that made humans learn language and other hallmarks we no... |
3 August 2010 04:39 GMT |
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Geneticists uncovered portions of mammalian DNA that mutated very little over the course of human evolution, roughly 80 to 100 million years long. The tiny snippets are thought to be more than 300 times less likely to disappear over the years. The find only further goes to show how little medicine actually knows abou... |
10 October 2008 03:28 GMT |
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Millions of years of evolution have brought the human race to the stage we are all living in today. Many distinct facial and bodily features differentiate us from our ancestors, whose fossils we uncovered over the years at various sites throughout the globe. Because of these differences, people thought for some time ... |
7 October 2008 03:59 GMT |
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