Climate Link To Neanderthal Demise Abates
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The case isn't closed yet, but modern humans are looking awfully guilty in one of the biggest whodunits in prehistory: the case of the demise of the Neanderthals.
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The image of Neanderthals may be in need of a makeover: scientists say at least some of these extinct hominids could have had fair skin and red hair.
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Prehistoric hunters may be off the hook in the latest twist of a prehistoric whodunit that tries to explain why bison populations sharply crashed thousands of years ago.
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Global warming over the coming century   could mean a return of temperatures last seen in the age of the   dinosaur and lead to the extinction of up to half of all   species, a scientist said on Thursday.
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Historians of the Stone Age fear that they will have to rip up their theories about Neanderthal Man after doubt has been cast on the carbon dating of skeletons by a leading German anthropologist.
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A new look at climate conditions 55 million years ago shows that the Earth is more sensitive to small changes than previously believed.
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Science & environment: Â· Scientists shed new light on disputed skeleton findÂ· Bone analysis supports distinct species theory
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But did they have much to say? Neanderthals may have a reputation in popular culture as a lumbering, grunting people, but researchers have discovered that they did have a gene thought to play a key role in speech.â¦
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Humans, not climate change, wiped out large beasts such as marsupial lions and tree kangaroos that roamed Australia thousands of years ago, scientists have concluded based on a remarkable new set of fossils.
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Global warming and not a giant asteroid may have nearly wiped out life on Earth some 250 million years ago, an international team of scientists said on Thursday.
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Dinosaurs were dying out before Earth was struck by an asteroid impact that is widely thought to have been responsible for their extinction, two scientists claim.
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Global warming could cut a swathe through the planet's species over the coming centuries, warns a study released Wednesday that shows a link between rising temperatures and mass extinctions reaching back half a billion years.
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Some Neanderthals may have had fair skin and red hair, giving them an appearance resembling modern Europeans, an international team of researchers said on Thursday.
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Many large mammals were wiped out in the last Ice Age but the Eurasian giant deer managed to survive, scientists said on Wednesday.
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Frozen in much the state it died some 37,500 years ago, a Siberian mammoth undergoing tests in Japan could finally explain why the beasts were driven to extinction Â and shed light on climate change, scientists said Friday.
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DNA is aiding fossil hunters in the search for human origins by approaching the search for human origins from a different angle.
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Description: Scientists discover fossils of a new species of early human on the Indonesian island of Flores. Like the Neanderthals, it is an alternate human line that disappeared.