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Ancient Hominid Males Stayed Home While Females Roamed, Study Finds
June 1, 2011 — The males of two bipedal hominid species that roamed the South African savanna more than a million years ago were stay-at-home kind of guys when compared to the gadabout gals, according to a new ... > full story -
Researchers Solve Mammoth Evolutionary Puzzle: The Woollies Weren't Picky, Happy to Interbreed
May 31, 2011 — A DNA-based study sheds new light on the complex evolutionary history of the woolly mammoth, suggesting it mated with a completely different and much larger species. The research found the woolly ... > full story -
Unique Canine Tooth from 'Peking Man' Found in Swedish Museum Collection
May 25, 2011 — Fossils from so-called Peking man are extremely rare, as most of the finds disappeared during World War II. A unique discovery has been made at the Museum of Evolution at Uppsala University -- a ... > full story -
Standing Up to Fight: Does It Explain Why We Walk Upright and Why Women Like Tall Men?
May 18, 2011 — A new study shows that men hit harder when they stand on two legs than when they are on all fours, and when hitting downward rather than upward, giving tall, upright males a fighting advantage. This ... > full story -
Last Neanderthals Near the Arctic Circle?
May 13, 2011 — Remains found near the Arctic Circle characteristic of Mousterian culture have recently been dated at over 28,500 years old, which is more than 8,000 years after Neanderthals are thought to have ... > full story -
No Nuts for 'Nutcracker Man': Early Human Relative Apparently Chewed Grass Instead
May 2, 2011 — 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. But a ... > full story -
Evolution of Human 'Super-Brain' Tied to Development of Bipedalism, Tool-Making
April 20, 2011 — Scientists seeking to understand the origin of the human mind may want to look to honeybees -- not ancestral apes -- for at least some of the answers, according to a University of Colorado Boulder ... > full story -
Right-Handedness Prevailed 500,000 Years Ago
April 19, 2011 — Markings on fossilized front teeth show that right-handedness goes back a half-million years in the human ... > full story -
A New Evolutionary History of Primates
March 17, 2011 — A robust new phylogenetic tree resolves many long-standing issues in primate taxonomy. The genomes of living primates harbor remarkable differences in diversity and provide an intriguing context for ... > full story -
Neanderthals Were Nifty at Controlling Fire
March 14, 2011 — A new study shows clear evidence of the continuous control of fire by Neanderthals in Europe dating back roughly 400,000 years, yet another indication that they weren't dimwitted brutes as often ... > full story -
Missing DNA Helps Make Us Human
March 9, 2011 — Specific traits that distinguish humans from their closest living relatives -- chimpanzees, with whom we share 96 percent of our DNA -- can be attributed to the loss of chunks of DNA that control ... > full story -
Stone Tools Influenced Hand Evolution in Human Ancestors, Anthropologists Say
March 7, 2011 — Anthropologists have confirmed Charles Darwin's speculation that the evolution of unique features in the human hand was influenced by increased tool use in our ... > full story
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