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Category Archives: human evolution
In search of a prehistoric hamster
Today is the start of a journey that might just end with us discovering just how destructive our ancestors really were. Palaeontologist Dr Adam Yates is heading off to Darwin in Australia to find something that once looked like a … Continue reading
Posted in dinosaurs, human evolution, palaeontology, science
Tagged Adam Yates, Australia, Bone, Darwin, Darwin Northern Territory, Diprotodon, Paleontology, science, Woolly mammoth
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The world’s oldest use of poison
And the embargo breaks…scientists can now reveal that they have found the world’s oldest known use of poison. Traces of ricin were discovered on a 20000-year-old wooden stick that was excavated at Border Cave in Kwa Zulu-Natal, South Africa. The … Continue reading
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Tagged earliest poison, poison, Ricin, San Bushman, science
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Scientists reveal the development of a world first open access laboratory.
It is just your normal CT scanner sitting in a hospital but it has allowed scientists to peer into a big lump of rock and discover some of the rarest fossils in the world. Tonight in Shanghai China a group … Continue reading
A first ever peek at what was on the dinner table two million years ago.
It is the stuff dentists scrape off teeth every day and now it has allowed a bunch of scientists to take a peek at what was on the menu two million years ago. The embargo has just broken on the … Continue reading
Car Parks and the mystery of the Peking Man
For 60 years the Peking Man fossils have remained missing. The Chinese government has offered a reward, researchers have tried to work out what happened and hoaxers pushed their luck. Nothing. But now an old US marine’s tale has provided … Continue reading
Once were runners
Johannes Tlou remembered them, the little people who would slip across the sandy Shashi river, close to where it joins the Limpopo. They were the Vhasarwa, the Bushmen/San who came to collect the fibres of the ilala palm, to weave … Continue reading
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Tagged endurance, First people, human evolution, running, San/Bushman
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Blunt force trauma, cave man style
It might be evidence of the first ever blow struck in anger, etched in a 126000 year-old-skull. The blow delivered by a blunt object left an indent in the skull. What is surprising is that the victim survived, his … Continue reading
