Human Ancestor Fossil

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MADRID, Spain (AP) - A small piece of jawbone unearthed in a cave in Spain is the oldest known Fossil of a Human Ancestor in Europe and suggests that people lived on the continent much earlier than previously believed, scientists say. ...

Source: www.topix.com --- 19 days ago
By Daniel Woolls Madrid, Spain - A small piece of jawbone unearthed in a cave in Spain is the oldest known Fossil of a Human Ancestor in Europe and suggests that people lived on the continent much earlier than ... ...

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-- A small piece of jawbone unearthed in a cave in Spain is the oldest known Fossil of a Human Ancestor in Europe and suggests that people lived on the continent much earlier than previously believed, scientists say. ...

Source: www.usatoday.com --- 50 days ago
A small piece of jawbone unearthed in a cave in Spain is the oldest known Fossil of a Human Ancestor in Europe and suggests that ... ...

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A small piece of jawbone unearthed in a cave in Spain is the oldest known Fossil of a Human Ancestor in Europe and suggests that people lived on the continent much earlier than previously believed, scientists say. ...

Source: www.connotea.org --- 38 days ago
"..."The new find bolsters the view that Homo reached Europe not long after leaving Africa almost 2 million years ago. "It seems probable that the first European population came from the region of the Near East, the true crossroads between Africa and Eurasia, and that it was related to the first demographic expansion out of Africa," said Pares, who is a research scientist in the U-M Department of Geological Sciences and program director of the newly created National Research Center on Human Evolution (CENIEH) in Burgos, Spain, with which most of the authors are affiliated. The researchers tentatively classified the new Fossil as an earlier example Homo antecessor (Pioneer Man), the species represented by the previous oldest fossils and thought to be the last common Ancestor of Neanderthals and modern humans. "..." Posted by msredsonyas to "Evolution ~ Molecular-Eco-Envir Adaptation" Archaeology~Fossils~Palaeontology "Radiocarbon and or Chemical Dating" "Anthropology ~ Sociology" on Mon Apr 07 2008 ...

Source: www.scienceblogs.com --- 40 days ago
Exactly How Much Housework Does A Husband Create? : Having a husband creates an extra seven hours a week of housework for women, according to a University of Michigan study of a nationally representative sample of U.S. families. For men, the picture is very different: A wife saves men from about an hour of housework a week. The figure included in the article states something quite different, see what Larry says about it . Fossil From Last Common Ancestor Of Neanderthals And Humans Found In Europe, 1.2 Million Years Old : University of Michigan researcher Josep M. Pares is part of a team that has discovered the oldest known remains of Human ancestors in Western Europe. Habitat Destruction May Wipe Out Monarch Butterfly Migration : Intense deforestation in Mexico could ruin one of North America's most celebrated natural wonders -- the mysterious 3,000-mile migration of the monarch butterfly. According to a University of Kansas researcher, the astonishing migration may collapse rapidly without urgent action to end devastation of the butterfly's vital sources of food and shelter. Is DNA Repair A Substitute For Sex? : Birds and bees may do it, but the microscopic animals called bdelloid rotifers seem to get along just fine without sex, thank you. What's more, they have done so over millions of years of evolution, resulting in at least 370 species. These hardy creatures somehow escape the usual drawback of as ...

Source: www.topix.com --- 13 days ago
Analysis of the Fossil teeth of an early Human Ancestor finds that even though they could have handled harder fare, they preferred soft fruits. ...

Source: xfruits.com --- 1 day ago
...which belongs to the oldest-known Human Ancestor in Europe , thus shattering previous theories about Human migration to Europe .The Fossil... ...

Source: scienceblogs.com --- 40 days ago
Exactly How Much Housework Does A Husband Create? : Having a husband creates an extra seven hours a week of housework for women, according to a University of Michigan study of a nationally representative sample of U.S. families. For men, the picture is very different: A wife saves men from about an hour of housework a week. The figure included in the article states something quite different, see what Larry says about it . Fossil From Last Common Ancestor Of Neanderthals And Humans Found In Europe, 1.2 Million Years Old : University of Michigan researcher Josep M. Pares is part of a team that has discovered the oldest known remains of Human ancestors in Western Europe. Habitat Destruction May Wipe Out Monarch Butterfly Migration : Intense deforestation in Mexico could ruin one of North America's most celebrated natural wonders -- the mysterious 3,000-mile migration of the monarch butterfly. According to a University of Kansas researcher, the astonishing migration may collapse rapidly without urgent action to end devastation of the butterfly's vital sources of food and shelter. Is DNA Repair A Substitute For Sex? : Birds and bees may do it, but the microscopic animals called bdelloid rotifers seem to get along just fine without sex, thank you. What's more, they have done so over millions of years of evolution, resulting in at least 370 species. These hardy creatures somehow escape the usual drawback of asexuali ...

Source: alienlifeblog.blogspot.com --- 43 days ago
Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation . You may notice that this and future entries are shorter than usual; career, family and book deal commitments have forced me to cut back some of my projects. Now, here's today's news: g Abodes - Earlier this month, NASA's Cassini spacecraft made a daring flight through the icy water jets of Enceladus. The data gathered might tell us if the moon harbors a water ocean or organics beneath its surface. See article . g Life - Researchers have detected a molecule closely related to an amino acid at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. The finding provides more evidence that precursor molecules important for the origin of life can be found in interstellar space. See article . g Intelligence - A small piece of jawbone unearthed in a cave in Spain is the oldest known Fossil of a Human Ancestor in Europe and suggests that people lived on the continent much earlier than previously believed, scientists say. See article . g Cosmicus - An animal common to marine environments on Earth has shown extreme resistance to radiation. Radiation is one of the greatest dangers for life traveling in space, and the finding could yield clues about how life might survive beyond Earth. See article . ...

Source: neurodojo.blogspot.com --- 19 days ago
The following is a blog post I made over at the All in the Mind blog in response to a recent show on evolutionary psychiatry. I wanted to post it here, because I've been wanting to discuss the "reptilian brain" idea for some time, as it may well be one of the most popular but wrong ideas about the evolution of nervous systems out there. More posts on reptile brains later, I hope. ;;;;; The basic premise discussed in this show -- that Human behaviour has an evolutionary history -- is not terribly contentious. The specific model discussed in the program, Paul MacLean's "triune brain," is more problematic. As typically expressed, MacLean's model suggests that entire reptilian brain has been conserved through the evolution of the mammals, with new brain regions essentially added on to the existing core, like suburbs being added to a city. There are a few problems with this model. First, MacLean's ideas seem to be highly influenced by old ideas that emphasized the "march of progress" or the "great chain of being." In particular, the MacLean model seems to be based on the notion that reptiles were the ancestors of mammals. It's debatable whether reptiles are the ancestors of mammals, however. It may be that the two groups shared a common Ancestor, then diverged. It's also somewhat misleading in that it lumps all reptiles together. Snakes, for instance, appear much later in the Fossil record than the earliest mammals . Second, the ...

Source: bibliotechrepublic.blogspot.com --- 42 days ago
Oldest Human Ancestor Fossil Found . I'm on a temporary media blackout. Cold turkey, even. No political blogs, no MSNBC, no CNN, no BBCA newshour, nothing. If I get the shakes, I'll let you know. ------ My opinons/statements/random bullshit is mine all mine. I speak for no one but myself, I apologise for nothing written here, and if you find it offensive/disagreeable/anti-whatever, then it made you think. And I am glad. ...

Source: theflyfishingrabbi.blogspot.com --- 37 days ago
Apparently, 375 million years ago, fish could walk. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, scientists found a Fossil of a creature that had the scales, gills and fins of a fish, but also had ribs and the primitive limbs of land creatures. One of the paleontologists, Neil Shubin, said: “What we found was clearly a fish, but it had a long flat head with its eyes on top like a crocodile, a shoulder, an elbow and a wrist.” This fish spent most of its time swimming, but also climbed out of the water and hunted on land. Picture: Fossilized remains of Tiktaalik rosae, the fish that could walk, and a model of the fish. From the San Francisco Chronicle and the University of Chicago. The discovery of the fish that could walk is being hailed as an important evolutionary link between fish and land creatures. The walking fish was an early Ancestor of reptiles, dinosaurs and mammals, including Human beings. Science can now prove that we all descended from fish. Perhaps that is why I enjoy spending so much time fly fishing; the trout are my very very distant cousins. One scientist, Jenny Clark of Cambridge University, offered an interesting response to this great discovery: “This is another gap closed that a deity no longer needs to fill.” Clark describes the conflict that can exist between religion and science, between those who believe in evolution and those who read the Bible as the literal word of God. For some people, God played no ...

Source: rivendellrose.livejournal.com --- 41 days ago
Okay, I promised beam_oflight a post on "something anthropological" a while ago, and I really do have a mostly-written essay/post on the current controversy over Homo floresiensis, but... this is so much more cool, and a lot less confusingly controversial, so! Scientists have found new fossils putting Human ancestors in Western Europe more than a million years ago . This is HUGE news, if the fossils aren't discredited, because up until now the earliest Human-Ancestor fossils in Western Europe dated to 800,000 years ago - big difference from over a million! The reason I say that this will be huge if the fossils aren't discredited is that dating techniques can get pretty fuzzy at times, and if there's any doubt about the provenance of the fossils we could be in for a rocky ride of people claiming that they got moved there from somewhere else. Biological anthropology is big on controversy like that. ;) So far, though, everything looks good - they were found in an area where later fossils are known, and the current ones were found in conjunction with stone flakes from the knapping of tools, and bones that show signs of having the meat cut from them by those tools. So they're not turning up "in a vacuum" so to speak, which is a very good sign! Point of interest - the Fossil is so far being considered to belong to Homo antecessor ( Wiki article here ), known to have been in the same area from later fossils. This f ...