Neanderthal climate link debated
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A study challenges a theory that abrupt and catastrophic climate change extinguished the last Neanderthals.
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A study of an ancient human pest - head lice â-uggests that the ancestors of today&#39;s American Indians may have met and fought with pre-humans long extinct elsewhere, scientists said on Tuesday.
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In the beginning were the bones. Fossils dating back hundreds of thousands- even millions- of years used by anthropologists to trace how the human species evolved.
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Not all of the Arctic thaw is caused by man. Nature plays a role, too, but that doesn't let us off the hook for the damage we've done.
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TUCSON - A new study shows a possible connection between a past climate warming and drought in what is now the US West. The width of tree rings over the past 1,200 years show that western &quot;megadroughts&quot; between
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An ancient version of global warming may have been to blame for the greatest mass extinction in Earth's history.
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The story of modern humansâ final interactions with the extinct Homo erectus may have been revealed by research into the evolution of lice.
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Scientists say changes in the earth&#39;s climate from human influences are occurring particularly intensely in the Arctic region, evidenced by widespread
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Like bringing to life a naked mannequin, scientists are using genetic and physical evidence found in fossils to clothe the skeletal remains of our closest hominid relatives, the Neanderthals.
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Analysis of a 40,000-year-old tooth found in southern Greece suggests Neanderthals were more mobile than once thought, paleontologists said Friday.
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The emergence of "female labor roles" played an important role in evolutionary history, a new study says, and might have helped modern humans edge out Neandertals.
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By constructing a complete genome of the Neanderthal, researchers hope to solve the age-old mystery of just how close an ancestor this creature was.
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Similar to modern humans The continuing analysis of samples of neanderthal DNA have revealed that some of them had ginger hair.â¦
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WASHINGTON - Hunters may not be to blame for the decline in bison populations, according to a new study that points the finger at climate change.
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Ancient bison DNA may help explain a longstanding mystery of North American wildlife: why mammoths, North American lions, short-faced bears and many other large mammals disappeared about 10,000 years ago.
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A chart of temperature variation over 1,000 years dubbed the "hockey stick" has entered into the folklore of climate scientists, but how accurate is it?
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SYDNEY - The discovery of a skeleton of a female barely one metre tall who hunted pygmy elephants and giant rats 18000 years ago could force a reassessment of the origins of humanity, scientists in Australia said yesterday.