Topic: William Jungers
More than 1.5 million years ago, several human ancestors wandered across a mud flat at what is now Ileret, Kenya. Now, with the discovery of the footprints, which were probably made by H. erectus, at Ileret, they have direct evidence of ...
Ardi" (Ardipithecus ramidus) has made big waves in the paleoanthropology world. The authors of the papers, including Tim White of the University of California, Berkeley, propose that Ardipithecus was "an effective upright walker" and that it "resolves many uncertainties about early human ...
A group of humans whose remains were found on the remote Indonesian island of Flores in 2003 truly are a new species, and not pygmies whose brains had shrivelled with disease, researchers reported.Anthropologists have argued, sometimes bitterly, since the discovery of ...
The tiny ancient humans dubbed hobbits, whose remains were discovered on an Indonesian island in 2003, were a previously unknown species altogether, according to two new studies.Debate has raged in the scientific community since the fossils were found on the island ...
Diminutive humans whose remains were found on the remote Indonesian island of Flores in 2003 truly are a new species, and not pygmies whose brains had shrivelled with disease, researchers reported Wednesday.Anthropologists have argued, sometimes bitterly, since the discovery of Homo ...
Share | A study of the feet of the 'hobbit' Homo floresiensis adds to evidence that it is a real species and not a diseased or dwarfed modern human - the findings also hint it isn't even a close relative.. The remarkable discovery ...
The tale of Homo floresiensis - aka the hobbit - is beginning to read less like a Tolkien epic than an Agatha Christie whodunit.. Island dwarf "It might be advantageous to the animal not to invest in such a large organ," says Eleanor Weston ...
hobbit" skeleton will go on public display for the first time as part of a human evolution symposium April 21 on Long Island, New York. This is a real first," said William Jungers, a professor of anatomy at Stony Brook.. Convened by ...
When anthropologists first analyzed the bones of an 18,000-year-old hominid found on the Indonesian island of Flores, they were struck by its diminutive size (just three feet tall) and small brain (more chimp-size than human). In another study, paleoanthropologist William Jungers ...
A 6 million-year-old early relative of modern humans apparently walked on two feet, pushing back the origins of so-called bipedalism, according to a new study of a fossil found in Kenya. "I would say at this point it's the earliest fossil ...
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7th Annual Human Evolution Symposium PART ...
"Hobbits in the Haystack - Homo floresiensis and Human Evolution" April ...2011-03-22 -
3rd Annual Human Evolution Symposium PART ...
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2nd Annual Human Evolution Symposium PART ...
"Out of Africa: Who, Where, and When?" Sept. 27, 2005 ...2010-11-23
