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Irish Medical Times,
04/2006, Volume:
40, Issue:
14
Trade Publication Article
World renowned anthropologist Prof Chris Stringer, National History Museum, London, visited the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland last week to mark the establishment of Molecular and Cellular ...Therapeutics at the College. Prof Stringer spoke about the "Out of Africa" theory of evolution - that all humans are descended from an African ancestral population.
Era septiembre de 2003. Lo que los investigadores indonesios y australianos no sabian era que habian encontrado los primeros restos de una especie desconocida de hominido ahora bautizado Homo ...floresiensis, que se extinguio hace tan solo 12.000 anos, pero que, probablemente, haya convivido con el Homo sapiens, en un mundo perdido habitado por lagartos gigantes y elefantes en miniatura. Seis anos antes del descubrimiento del Homo floresiensis, Mike Morwood, uno de los antropologos autores del hallazgo, publico un articulo cientifico que afirmaba que 800.000 anos atras la isla de Flores habia recibido la visita del Homo erectus (un primo lejano del Homo Sapiens) proveniente de la isla de Java. Prueba de ello eran herramientas de piedra de esa antiguedad desenterradas en la isla. Los registros antropologicos senalan que los primeros Homo sapiens en poner pie en la isla de Flores llegaron hace entre 55.000 y 35.000 anos. En cuanto al Homo floresiensis, la datacion de los siete ejemplares hallados en Liang Bua revelo que los mas antiguos tienen 94.000 anos, mientras que los mas jovenes solo 13.000 anos.
People colonised Britain on seven separate occasions over the past 700,000 years and were wiped out each time by an ice age. The eighth and last colonisation took place only 12,000 years ago - ...meaning that Britain has had continuous human habitation for less time than Australia or the Americas. Britain's oldest known evidence of human habitation comes from a 700,000-year-old site at Pakefield on the Suffolk coast, where archaeologists last year discovered many sharp flint tools from an unknown human species - they have not yet found human bones there.
Fossil forays Day, Michael H
Nature,
02/1990, Volume:
343, Issue:
6257
Journal Article, Book Review
Peer reviewed
Open access
Michael H. Day reviews "The Human Revolution: Behavioural and Biological Perspectives on the Origins of Modern Humans," edited by Paul Mellars and Chris Stringer.
How far back can we go? Eyres, Harry
The Financial times (London ed.),
11/2010
Newspaper Article
Professor Chris Stringer, research leader in human origins at the Natural History Museum, London, was giving a talk about the discovery of a cache of razor-sharp flint-cutting tools in a bed of ...900,000-year-old sediment near the village of Happisburgh in Norfolk...
Apr. 27--ULLIN, Ill. -- The aid Chris Stringer gave to an Illinois state trooper more than a year ago might have helped saved the officer's life. On Wednesday, the state police formally thanked him. ...Stringer, 31, formerly of Barlow, Ky., now lives in Villa Ridge. He was driving home from visiting family on Christmas Day 2004 when he stopped to help what appeared to be a driver stuck in a snowy ditch off the side of Ill. 51 just north of Mounds in Pulaski County. It turned out the vehicle wasn't stuck. The driver was fighting with Trooper Chuck Bonifield, who was on top of him in the car after a routine traffic stop went awry. "I was following the vehicle, and the driver stopped in the middle of the roadway. It had been snowing out," Bonifield recalled. "I thought the subject was impaired by alcohol or other drugs, and I asked for his identification. I could smell alcohol and burnt cannabis." Bonifield said the driver, Sterling Roy Thompkins, 21, of Villa Ridge, wouldn't give him a straight answer and tried to change the subject instead of handing over his license. Thompkins' girlfriend watched from the passenger's seat.
Although the title of this book suggests that it is about human evolution, it is really a bit of a misnomer. In fact, Stringer and Andrews (both, Natural History Museum, London, UK) present a nice ...introductory discussion that encompasses the much broader picture of primate evolution in general-surveying some 30 million years of primate evolution and 5 million years of human evolution in the process.
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