Natural Science Forum / Biology / Paleontology / May 2007

Decapitation and rebirth
Recently excavated headless skeleton expands understanding of ancient Andean rituals
Images of disembodied heads are widespread in the art of Nasca, a culture based on the southern coast of Peru from AD 1 to AD 750. But despite this evidence and large ...

Gorilla afarensis
A.afarensis, to which DIK-1 & Lucy AL-288-1 belong, was very Afr.apelike,
and more gorilla- than chimplike:
· Johanson & Edey 1981:351: The composite skull reconstructed mostly from

Just a thought experiment...
Suppose that mankind exterminates itself in a near future, by a
nuclear war or something like that. Assume further that no intelligent
species arises on Earth or visits Earth from space for the next 100

While I agree that it is possible that an asteroid impact caused the
extinction of the dinosaurs,
there are other possibilities. The sun's output is not necessarily
constant. There are many variable

I read your paper on Hominid aquatic theory and found it interesting.  I do
have a few questions, however.  As interesting as your proposition is, and
I'll concede here and now that there is always the possibility that there
is something to it, what paleoecological evidence do ...

Egyptians, not Greeks were true fathers of medicine
Scientists examining documents dating back 3,500 years say they have found proof that the origins of modern medicine lie in ancient Egypt and not with Hippocrates and the Greeks.
The research team from the KNH Centre for ...