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Re: January 2015 Archeology - Early Humans
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2015, 02:11:52 pm »
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Data mining courtesy of: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Explorator/messages

Neanderthals had the knowledge to work with bone:
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/01/2015/neanderthals-knew-how-to-work-bone-for-tool-use-55000-years-ago

… which is being spun in some reports into something about humans not being so advanced:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/01/150114101528.htm

Positing a connection between language and tool use:
http://phys.org/news/2015-01-world-oldest-butchering-tools-gave.html

… and some possibly-related babble:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2015/01/14/377191887/from-the-mouths-of-apes-babble-hints-at-origins-of-human-speech

On the evolution of ‘taste’:
http://www.livescience.com/49477-human-ancestors-diet-taste-evolution.html

A well-known anthropologist is the latest academic to be accused of faslifying data:
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2005/feb/19/science.sciencenews

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