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Mashup Score: 137Fossil apes and human evolution - 3 year(s) ago
There has been much focus on the evolution of primates and especially where and how humans diverged in this process. It has often been suggested that the last common ancestor between humans and other apes, especially our closest relative, the chimpanzee, was ape- or chimp-like. Almécija et al. review this area and conclude that the morphology of fossil apes was varied and that it is likely that…
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Mashup Score: 69Widespread reforestation before European influence on Amazonia - 3 year(s) ago
An early 17th-century temporary reduction in global atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels has now been attributed to reforestation in Amazonia after the catastrophic loss of life of the indigenous population caused by diseases brought by European invaders. Using fossil pollen data from Amazonian lake sediments with temporal resolution over the past millennium, Bush et al. found that forest…
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Fossil pollen records suggest that depopulation & resulting forest regrowth in Amazonia began centuries before European arrival & did not contribute to the observed decline in atmospheric CO2 during the 17th century, new research finds. ($) https://t.co/bzr8GTncYn #FossilFriday https://t.co/CZFvV1CtZR
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Mashup Score: 41The primitive brain of early Homo - 3 year(s) ago
Human brains are larger than and structurally different from the brains of the great apes. Ponce de León et al. explored the timing of the origins of the structurally modern human brain (see the Perspective by Beaudet). By comparing endocasts, representations of the inner surface of fossil brain cases, from early Homo from Africa, Georgia, and Southeast Asia, they show that these structural…
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New research in Science challenges the long-standing assumption that human-like brain organization is a hallmark of the early genus Homo and suggest that the evolutionary history of the human brain is more complex than previously thought. https://t.co/NHu1MVGqPN #FossilFriday https://t.co/gJjS560HNE
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What may be an overlooked fossil in a well-known cultural site could offer clues to the age of its underlying rocks.
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Mashup Score: 8
What may be an overlooked fossil in a well-known cultural site could offer clues to the age of its underlying rocks.
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Mashup Score: 12
What may be an overlooked fossil in a well-known cultural site could offer clues to the age of its underlying rocks.
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Mashup Score: 14
What may be an overlooked fossil in a well-known cultural site could offer clues to the age of its underlying rocks.
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What may be an overlooked fossil in a well-known cultural site could offer clues to the age of its underlying rocks.
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Extant amphibians are represented by three fairly simple morphologies: the mostly hopping frogs and toads, the low-crawling salamanders, and the limbless caecilians. Until the early Pleistocene—and for more than 165 million years—there was another group, the albanerpetontids. We know little about this group because amphibian fossils are poorly preserved, and previous specimens from this group are…
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A #ScienceReview on fossil apes and what they reveal about human evolution suggests that modern humans and apes originated from a common Miocene ape ancestor—one unlike any currently living species. Read more: https://t.co/86GWvi3DHQ #FossilFriday https://t.co/CI4Sng1SBQ