We also know that australopiths probably made simple stone tools. These advances aside, australopiths weren’t that different from other apes. Only with the appearance of true humans – the genusHomo– did hominins begin to look and behave a little more like we do. Few now doubt that our...
(1)推理判断题。根据第一段Humans evolved (进化) from apes.This is what we learned in biology class.But what came before apes?Chinese scientists have discovered fossils that could enrich the evolutionary story of how humans evolved from fish.(人类由
A study of boys from the ages of 8 to 14 who were only moderately trained in throwing could still throw two times faster than chimps. So how and why did humans evolve to become expert throwers? In two papers in The Quarterly Review of Biology, we explored the ecological causes and ...
Evolution is fascinating because it attempts to answer one of the most basic human questions: Where did life, and human beings, come from? The theory of evolution proposes that life and humans arose through a natural process. A very large number of people do not believe this, which is somet...
So how did Eve end up being humanity's most recent common ancestor? We'll look at that in this article, as well as some arguments lodged against the Mitochondrial Eve theory. But first, what are mitochondria and why do scientists use mtDNA to track lineage? Contents Origins of Mitochondria...
How did fingernails evolve? Jeremy Chalchinsky New York The earliest known fingernails are thought to have occurred in Teilhardina brandti, a lemur-like primate from the Eocene, long before the earliest known hominin. Fingernails are believed to have made it ea...
Cagle was on a panel at a science fiction convention several years ago with author David Brin, who has written about the concept of uplift, in which AI would be used to enhance the intellectual capabilities of sentient nonhuman life such as dolphins and apes to human level. "Are we ethicall...
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3.3-million-year-old stone tools from Lomekwi 3, West Turkana, Kenya Nature, 521 (2015), pp. 310-315 Google Scholar Hauser et al., 2002 M.D. Hauser, N. Chomsky, W.T. Fitch The faculty of language: What is it, who has it, and how did it evolve? Science, 298 (2002), pp. ...
(the area encompassing modern day Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Iraq), enabling the invasion of rival herbivores and new predators from Asia. The invasive fauna included the ancestors of modern-day lion, zebra, rhinoceros, hippopotamus and antelopes. The Great Apes did not exist...