Far fewer human genes exist than we once thought, scientists say Posted Oct. 25, 2004 Courtesy Nature and World Science staff Ten years ago, scientists thought...
Humans can learn to be nice 12:04 01 December 04 NewScientist.com news service Genes exert a strong influence over how nice - or socially responsible - humans...
Colleagues, For anyone who's in the least interested, I have just uploaded a spreadsheet to the files section on Paleoanthro which shows the posting trends (#...
Removal of bouncing email addresses Yahoo! Groups will periodically remove email addresses which have been bouncing for long periods of time. If Yahoo! Groups...
Perhaps it was necessary to run fast and far to escape predatory cannibals? Artemis ... many more non-homo ... the statistical ... more. Nature rarely ... ...
Artemistroy (artemispub@...) wrote: <Perhaps it was necessary to run fast and far to escape predatory cannibals?> I think the "savannah" phase has a...
Additionally, the reduction in jaw strength and shape permitted enlargement of the brain. -- Artemis ... Why Some Men Are So Handsome Good-looking guys have...
townhall.com Hype, hoaxes, hacks . . . and science Paul Jacob December 5, 2004 The end is near. Well, the end of the year is near. So it's time to ape Dave ...
My pet theory is that Homo's ancestor descended from a bipedal ape that never was a knuckle-walker or much of a branch-hanger. Since evolution selects on...
Yahoo is tracking you Yahoo is now using something called "Web Beacons" to track Yahoo Group users around the Net to see what you are doing and where you are...
Dear fellow members, At the moment I am working on my paper for the third year in college. It's about the fossils of H. habilis in the Olduvai Gorge and to be...
Rutger, You're likely to find a faunal list for Olduvai Gorge Bed I in: Leakey, M.D. 1971. Olduvai Gorge, Vol. 3. Excavations in Beds I and II, 1960-1963....
There is a link today at archeologica to a piece about a 500,000 year old hand axe recently discovered in England wherein they speak of this an an early human ...
... the ... A definition restricted to Homo sapiens is very narrow definition of "human" and one I cannot agree with. Whatever level of behavioral differences...
... From: <dar_83001@...> ... I tend to agree. The term 'human' does seem to denote a single species, but the question of whether Hs could interbreed...
There's no reason that they couldn't interbreed. See http://rafonda.com "Speculations on speciation." Artemis ... behavioral ... mosaic ... and ... species,...
There are major and minor differences between Homo, depending on what continent you're referring to. Currently, some populations evidence more H. erectus...
Cleopatra: Scientist, Not Seductress? By Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News Dec. 14, 2004 —Medieval Arabic texts suggest that Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII was a...
Well, names are an interesting thing. We "know" things by naming them. One can call all tool-making primates humans, whether or not they can interbreed with...
From 100 Facts: FACT #21: The name Homo sapien was first used by the 18th Century Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus. The word "sapien" means "wise." The name...
From: "artemispub" <artemispub@...> ... Last time I looked in the Systema Naturae europaeus was one of the five subspecies into which Linnaeus divided...
... FACT #21: The name Homo sapien was first used by the 18th Century Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus. The word "sapien" means "wise." The name was ...
Neandertal flute is dated at 45,000 years. Was Mozart, and other brilliant Euro composers, a descendent of these early flutemakers? Who WAS the first "human,"...
There is H. sapiens, and there is H. sapiens sapiens, the "true" hu- man ("hu" is Indo-European for "true"). The question is: from where, and when, did H....
Are you not a Caucasian? We are still trying to figure out why Caucasians hate their own race. Artemis (proud to be a Caucasian) ... Swedish ... name was ... ...