Study: Early Humans Were Slowpokes
Without an Achilles tendon, early humans would have been twice as slow. A slice from a computer model used to show how early humans may have walked. An Achilles tendon is key to efficient running, and our ancestors may have lacked one. Credit: ... [... more]
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Eyewitness: Early Humans
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Ascent To Civilization: The Archaeology of Early Humans
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What is Positional Astronomy? - Astronomy
Long before we had clocks, long before we had compasses, we had astronomy. It is the oldest physical science, dating back to prehistoric times, when early humans gazed up at the sky with wonder, awe and many times, fear. It is also how humans ... [... more]
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Chimps Spotted Using Caves, Like Early Humans
Like our ancestors might have done, chimps seek refuge from the heat in a cave in a dry savannah, adding to the range of cultural behaviors among primates. A male chimpanzee near a cave. Scientists find that savannah chimpanzees can seek refuge ... [... more]
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Peace or War? How Early Humans Behaved
Our ancestors are depicted as both peace-loving softies and war-mongering buffoons. Which is right? A little of both, this man says. Professor Michael Bisson, archaeologist at Montreal's McGill University, sits with an actor playing the part of a ... [... more]
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Early Humans Dug for Food, Study Suggests
Before TV dinners and even before fire was harnessed, a meager diet. African mole rats like the one shown above are helping scientists reveal what early humans ate. Credit: Justin Yeake Early humans might have turned to plant roots and ... [... more]
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Spencer Wells
Travel backward through time from today's scattered billions to the handful of early humans who lived in Africa 60,000 years ago and are ancestors to us all. In Deep Ancestry, scientist and National Geographic explorer Spencer Wells shows how ... [... more]
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Musical Side Of Brain May Have Helped Early Humans ...
Anthropologists using a computerized system to study human brain development have discovered an unexpected evolution of the organ's right hemisphere--an area that controls musical and artistic skills, and voice tone. The theory is that such ... [... more]
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Early Humans and Their World
This book presents a breadth of scholarship not found in previous books on the evolution of early hominids. This wide-ranging account creates an accessible introduction to the development of humankind, suitable for students at all levels and the [... more]
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