Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 Jun 1. [Epub ahead of print] [Click here to read] <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/utils/fref.fcgi?PrId=3051&itool=Abst\ ...
[BBC NEWS] Chimps mentally map fruit trees Matt Walker Editor, Earth News Chimpanzees remember the exact location of all their favourite fruit trees. ...
... And so can humans. I bet that part of the brain hasn't changed very much the last 8 million years. ... But then birds are blessed with smaller nerve cells...
How does it compare to orangutan, gibbon, bonobo and even fruit bat and fruit birds like hornbills? Maybe they all have good spacial memory, being arboreal...
http://www.palarch.nl/2009/06/news-first-fossil-of-neanderthal-from-northsea-the-netherlands/ For the first time ever, a fossil of a Neanderthal has been...
[BBC NEWS] Sea gives up Neanderthal fossil By Paul Rincon Science reporter, BBC News Part of a Neanderthal man's skull has been dredged up from the North ...
It's a nice fossil and extends the known N range (although not in a suprising way) however I can't help but wonder if the wholesale fossil dredging is robbing...
Torfinn: And thanks for that even more detailed article! Anne G http://www.palarch.nl/2009/06/news-first-fossil-of-neanderthal-from-northsea-the-netherlands/ ...
Weyert: I got the impression it was a Dutch scientific team(at least from one of the articles I read). Anne G Yes, but I read that the fossil discussed here...
ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCE Vol. 117(1), 33â€"43, 2009 The origin of Homo floresiensis and its relation to evolutionary processes under isolation G.A. LYRAS ,...
[BBC NEWS] Human role in big kangaroo demise By Jason Palmer Science and technology reporter, BBC News A fossil study of the extinct giant kangaroo has...
[BBC NEWS] Evolution faster when it's warmer By Victoria Gill Science reporter, BBC News Climate could have a direct effect on the speed of "molecular...
[BBC NEWS] 'Oldest musical instrument' found By Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent, BBC News Scientists in Germany have published details of flutes dating...
HU YaoWu, SHANG Hong, et al. Stable istope dietary analysis of the Tianyuan 1 early modern human PNAS 106(27): 10971-10974 Abstract: We report here on the...
... Comparative evidence from the skeleton suggests that a greater proportion of adult body mass and stature was achieved earlier in the growth period of...
"Eleven teeth (12% of the sample) of G. blacki are diagnosed as having caries" I was under the impression that caries was only found on teeth dated since the...
... Sugar cane is native to south India AFAIK, perhaps it (or similar sugary plants) were in coastal China at that time? I think Gb was a bamboo/cane/sedge...
Yes, but still I would expect Gb to be adapted to its environment and thus have its teeth strong enough to withstand the sugary foods in its habitat even if...
... I'm sure there are. In noting the parallel reduction and complete loss of the tail in all hominoids and frogs and no other animals, I've found that...
... I had meant to say this: frog (insectivore) & water lily (insect attractor) match as a symbiotic pair, just as lichen on rocks pair match a fungus and an...
In "God-Apes and Fossil Men: Paleoanthropology of South Asia" by Kenneth A. R. Kennedy, Google showed an extract on Gb referring to pandas having a similar...
Thanks Luc, I hadn't seen that. Bears eat honey and berries, so pandas may have made a similar switch to sugary canes at times, especially perhaps during the...
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