http://news.discovery.com/human/human-ancestor-diet-nuts.html 9.11.09 Our human ancestors did not eat much fruit, but instead consumed a lot of root...
... Not likely IMO: apiths in the central Afr.forest resemble G more than P, whereas apiths in the S.Afr.littoral forest resemble P more than G. Parallels to...
... The island "endemism" phenomenon, I think, is not just a trend towards smaller brains, it's a trend towards smaller everything. I've not read anything to...
Not only H.floresiensis, but +-every island mammal seems to get smaller brains, eg, M Köhler & S Moyà-Solà 2004 BBE 63:125-140 Reduction of Brain and Sense...
... Hi Rob ... Well firstly, I think the assumption that practically all viral spread is either by contact or short-range aerosol transmission (eg. sneezing,...
... From: Algis To: AAT@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 12:29 AM Subject: [AAT] Re: What Causes Speciation? ... Algis Good point. Elaine ...
... More time, means more time for changes, more time for changes to become fixed. Chromosomes numbers, vary between species ... some like humans manage with...
... True... but that's not ALL it is dependent on. ... But, of the great apes, we're the odd one out. They all have 48, we have 46. It must be a derived...
... Marc, Perhaps. However I would favour more the northern portion of the Miocene forest surrounding Lake Chad as the habitat of the P/H - LCA following the...
... Fair point ... Algis. ... Following in the sense it was not the condition before the divergence with the ancestors of the chimpanzee. If it was a mutation...
Contagious yawning in gelada baboons as a possible expression of empathy E Palagi, A Leone, G Mancini & PF Ferrari 2009 PNAS Contagious yawning in gelada...
... Hi Rob ... Well done... I always appreciate people that do that! No distortions at all. You'd never do that! ... Was the world all that different 3Ma? I...
... Sorry, I didn't make myself clear. I didn't mean to imply (although it probably came over that way) that the karyotype caused the split. Just that it was a...
... OK ... That's a curious description of chromosomes - a collection of "random sized suitcases full of bits and bobs" ... By definition a chromosome - is a...
... Yes but it's the collections of nucleotides that code for genes and for regulatory RNA that do the work. What chromosome they happen to be on is really...
... OK The question that remains is when it occurred and perhaps why these particular chromosomes fused into one. Was it a random event, or is there a link to...
New hominid fossils from Woranso-Mille (Central Afar, Ethiopia) and taxonomy of early Australopithecus Y Haile-Selassie, BZ Saylor, A Deino, M Alene & BM...
'Lucy' Redux: A Review of Research on Australopithecus afarensis WH Kimbel & LK Delezene 2009 Yb.phys.Anthr.52:2-48 ... Dietary reconstructions and occlusal...
http://kalkion.com/news/hobbits-are-new-human-species/732 Hobbits Are A New Human Species Researchers from Stony Brook University Medical Center in New York...
"For the past five years, almost every study including more than a single gene has agreed on one central fact: humans and chimpanzees last exchanged genes less...
... If we define Homo as everything in our branch after the H/P split (as I prefer), brain size is no criterion. Hf had several apith-like features (climbing...
... Hi Rob ... Well the temperature may have been a little higher and the air currents might have ebeen a little different but it seems a bit of a convenient...
... If you were to rule out brain-size as a criterion for genus Homo, then the there would be no a'piths - everything would be Homo. An if the floresiensis is...
... Hi Rob ... Ok. "no reason" is a stretch. There's good reason, I admit. I also accept I'm being a bit selective with the evidence here but, as we'll see...
Dating back to 110,000 years ago, a human fossil found in China could provide evidence disputing the theory that all modern day humans originally came from...
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