Human Evolution Based on Bird Attacks?
2006-09-06
Maybe the reason that we humans evolved to become so war-like is that we were constantly having to defend ourselves?not just from attacks by each other but from snakes?and BIRDS.
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Prehistoric Meals Were Us
2006-06-29
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We think of early men as hunters, but prehistoric people were hunted as well, by gigantic birds as well as big cats. But at least we got even with the cats?there is evidence that eating early humans gave them ulcers.
A fossil of a “missing link” that was once assumed to have been killed by a leopard or saber-toothed tiger is now thought to have been killed by a giant predatory bird. In LiveScience.com, Alexandra Zavis quotes paelo- anthropologist Lee Berger as saying, “These types of discoveries give us real insight into the past lives of these human ancestors, the world they lived in and the things they feared.”
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Who Came First?and How?
2006-06-19
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Who was here first?and how did they get here? The first people to come to North America may have been seal hunters from France and Spain. They wouldn’t have crossed over the ice bridge that existed around 13,500 years ago, connecting this continent to Siberia?they would have come by boat. Or Japanese may have walked across the ocean on a highway made of seaweed.
Four million seals would have been pretty tempting to hungry people from Europe. The Inuit today still use traditional large, open boats made out of animal skins. These can hold about a dozen adults, along with a few children?everything you’d need to colonize a continent.
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Wearing Wolf Teeth
2006-06-16
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As we’ve reported here before, modern man isn’t the only one who has gone to the dentist. 4,500-year-old bones were found in Mexico which contained dentures made from jaguar or wolf fangs. George Washington hated his ivory dentures?he would have really hated these!
Archeologists think the teeth may have only been ceremonial, a way of conveying animal strength to the human wearing them.
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