Life without numbers in a unique Amazon tribe
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1+1=2. Mathematics doesn&#39;t get any more basic than this, but even 1+1 would stump the brightest minds among the Piraha tribe of the Amazon.
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NEW YORK Once upon a time, but not so long ago, in a tropical island midway between Asia and Australia, there lived a race of little people, whose adults stood just more than one meter tall.
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Archaeologists have unearthed evidence of a species of dwarf people, dubbed Homo floresiensis.
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A 3ft tall &#39;hobbit&#39; discovered on a remote Indonesian island has raised the extraordinary possibility that our human species might not be alone on Earth.
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Mythical tales abound of a race of little people that dwell on the islands of Indonesia. Dutch explorers who colonized Flores 100 years ago were told stories of a human-like creature local
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PORT BLAIR, India -- Two days after a tsunami thrashed the island where his ancestors have lived for tens of thousands of years, a lone tribesman stood naked on the beach and looked up at a hovering coast guard helicopter.
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A new study of the skeleton of a one-meter-high race of âhobbitsâ that lived 12,000 years ago in Indonesia shows that they were a species of humanâand that the evolutionary path to Homo sapiens has been torturous indeed.
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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.
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Researchers claim to have solved the mystery of the people who simply do not count. It could be because they are lost for words.
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one being habitat - I wonder if there is a conscientious effort from the cement jungle population to give one creature a chance.
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Manila - A new species of flightless bird has been discovered living on a tiny island in the northern Philippines where the inhabitants formerly ate them, scientists and birdwatchers said on Tuesday.
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Call them the odd couples. A pair of month-old Sumatran tiger twins have become inseparable playmates with a set of young orangutans, an unthinkable match in their natural jungle habitat in Indonesia's tropical rainforests.
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Los Angeles Times - IQUITOS, Peru &#8212; A few miles downriver from this city in the western Amazon jungle, Andres Alvarado hops off a boat and walks up a muddy path to a hollowed-out log resting on a wooden stand. He beats the log with a stick, sending a series of low-pitched tones into the rain forest.
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Researchers have found evidence of a population of chimps that shares plant foods.
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An Indian identity that means more than being gay or lesbian.
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By ALAN CLENDENNING SAO PAULO, Brazil - A Brazilian Indian tribe is linking up with Google Earth to try to capture vivid images that could help stop loggers and miners from deforesting the jungle and digging for gold on its vast Amazon reservation.
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Study exposes emerging tribes of social network sites