28.2.07 3:19 Size matters . if you're a rodent http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-02/uocp-smy022707.php Promiscuity is common among female rodents,...
http://www.planetpuna.com/whale-songlines/index.htm Whales Map Oceans with Song Jonathan Leake, Science Editor London Sunday Times February 20, 2005 Report...
I have been unable to access the web for some time, so this article might have come up already, but seems rather interesting: To quote from the synopsis: "The...
Marc and all, Zilhao and Trinkaus assess whether or not our ancestors interbred with Neanderthals. It appears that the Lagar Velho child could support this ...
http://www.hallofmaat.com/read.php?5,432190,432316#msg-432316 Evidence of cannibalism in Spain on young neandertals, by whom? No tools found. Could the 40ka...
It is interesting - intriguing... Their new 4 million year date, for the chimp-human split... has generated a few posts in a thread [LCA H/P 4ma] started by DD...
... Hi, Gerry, welcome. I don't know whether Hs & Hn interbred. If they did, it's only part of Hs that did (Europe). Whether they did can IMO best be...
(From Tetrapod zoology blog) Sea snakes are also neat in that they practice cutaneous respiration, being able to absorb up to 20% of their oxygen requirements...
Hi Marc and all, The DNA studies show that Neanderthals were a separate “species” from modern humans but in most paleo studies the term “species” is...
... Never heard of it. I'm not a diver. I only dared to swim underwater when my daughter told me that it was very easy & that you could do it automatically, ...
... when my ... automatically, ... so, but my ... The place pictured is Nemo 33, not sure which city in Belgium. There are some 70 year old freedivers in...
3.3.07 Size of brain areas does matter -- but bigger isn't necessarily better http://www.physorg.com/news92051236.html The ability to hit a baseball or play a...
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Thanks, DD, very interesting, but not unexpected. But how, with such a 'radar', can whales still be subject to strandings? --Marc...
Facial reconstructions [ illustrations ] of some ancient apes, an two human ancestors... featured in this month's Nat.History magazine... ... "Faces of the...
... The problem with these "reconstructions" is that they are BASED upon apes. This is why they all look like apes. If they are BASED upon humans, they would...
... I thought strandings occurred more often in toothed whales than baleen whales. Naval sonar may be partly to blame for mass strndings by forcing whales to...
... Not at all: - Early hominids (ancestors of HPG) were probably predom.bipedal waders-climbers. - The typically Hs features are very recent: <200 ka? But the...
.>> Thanks, DD, very interesting, but not unexpected. ... Yes, AFAIK stranding occur more often in toothed whales (but toothed whales are more abundant than...
... Yes, at least in speed of reacting (which can be of life-saving importance: humans are rel.slow (just compare how fast birds can react), which is partly ...
... strandings? ... whales ... correct, the ... ascending pitch? ... Those are both good questions. First, I'll say that baleen whalesong must be a much poorer...
At a recent prey tracking & hunting symposium held near here, some Khoisan bushmen spoke on their methods of tracking, they were referred to as the world's...
Just to add, chimps make "raspberry sounds" by exhaling through pursed lips, this may be derived from the very first clicking, during the float-wading period,...