In 2001: A Space Odyssey, space travel led to the next phase of human evolution.
And in an incredible burst of human evolution, our minds have grown accustomed to monitoring multiple inputs at once.
Scientists in the UK say the Tasmanian remains could shed light on human evolution, and particularly on the colonisation of Australia.
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Human evolution favoured caution and mistrust, so far as strangers were concerned.
Are my children already on to the next step of human evolution?
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Michael Petraglia, professor of human evolution and prehistory at the University of Oxford has been working on the radiocarbon dating at Al Magar.
But the outlines of a science of human evolution that can explain humanity's success, and also its continuing failings, are now in place.
New fossil evidence seems to confirm that a key ancestor of ours could walk upright consistently - one of the major advances in human evolution.
Touch is not intuitive, because in fifty million years of human evolution, we do not touch each other and in the US, it's politically incorrect.
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The paper Dr Moyzis and his colleagues have just published is a ranging shot, but the amount of recent human evolution it has exposed is surprising.
As reported by Brett Arends in The Wall Street Journal, this all too familiar habit of buying high and selling low has its origins in human evolution.
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Healthy, strapping sons are likely to produce lots of grandchildren, by several women or would have done in the hunter-gatherer societies in which most human evolution took place.
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In fact, it's a byproduct of human evolution, experts say.
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These curious hominids lived about two million years ago in an era that scientists consider the crucible of human evolution, when four or more apelike hominid species struggled for survival in Africa.
In the experiment, reported online in the Journal of Human Evolution, a human adult first attracted the attention of the non-human ape or the human child, and then looked up at the ceiling.
Once proudly held up as the earliest known Englishman, Piltdown is now displayed as a lesson from the past, of a prehistory of Britain and a stage of human evolution that never was.
To believe that is to believe that the arc of human evolution suddenly jumped the curve in the 1980s, producing a race of 300-pound men able to leap tall buildings and run the 40-yard dash like a bullet.
And on a larger excursion with friends to central Africa, which ended at some beach cottages on an island off Zanzibar, among their companions was anthropologist Donald Johanson, known for his work on the human ancestor Lucy, who helped teach them about human evolution.
But perhaps the most important reason is that we are in an incredibly fluid era of human social evolution.
In terms of what makes us human, the most promising areas for exploration are six regions that show very little variation among humans but more variation in chimps suggesting they were important in the human line of evolution.
The band took its name from the concept of de-evolution, human being and society devolving, not progressing.
"The human species is about evolution and is about moving forward, " said Eric Anderson, president of Space Adventures Ltd.
And they lay out their case that this is so in a paper just published in Evolution and Human Behavior.
Yet its importance in the evolution of human civilization can't be denied.
Dr. Gell-Mann, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist with a keen interest in historical linguistics, is co-founder of a project known as Evolution of Human Languages.
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That, at least, is the contention of David Puts, an anthropologist at Pennsylvania State University, in an upcoming paper in Evolution and Human Behavior.
The results, to be published in Evolution and Human Behaviour, show that the men and women collected on average about the same weight of mushrooms.
What this implies for the evolution of human toolmaking is unclear.
Gould's view was thus that the evolution of human intelligence while not exactly an accident, since it was a response to a long series of circumstances, was certainly not a foregone conclusion.
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