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Clearing Up Confusion Between Correlation And Causation

... live in small, stable, hunter-gatherer societies. We are Pleistocene people, but our languaged brains have created massive, ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 25 2014 - 7:30am - 0 attachments

Historical Global Carbon Cycle Needs A Rethink

... of several periods of sub-aerial exposure during the Pleistocene ice ages, which took place over the past two million years. ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 16 2014 - 7:30pm - 0 attachments

How Chicago Almost Ended Up In Wisconsin

... was determined by an intervention of nature in the Pleistocene Era. "Numerous glacial advances covered most of Iowa, ... western border when Illinois became a state. Before the Pleistocene glacial period, the ancient Mississippi River passed much farther ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 14 2014 - 11:30am - 0 attachments

Younger Dryas: Microscopic Diamonds Suggest Cosmic Impact Caused It

... called the Younger Dryas, coincided with the extinction of Pleistocene megafauna, such as the saber-tooth cats and the mastodon, and ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 12 2014 - 8:00am - 0 attachments

Paleolithic Escargot - Prehistoric Spaniards Cooked Snails 30,000 Years Ago

... to a recent paper. Snails were widespread in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene, but it is still unknown when and how they were ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 21 2014 - 12:14pm - 0 attachments

Biology's Labyrinth: Ancient Chinese Human Had Inner-ear Formation Of Neanderthals

... places into question a whole suite of scenarios of later Pleistocene human population dispersals and interconnections based on tracing ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2014 - 5:20pm - 0 attachments

Vulpes Qiuzhudingi: Was High Tibet The Cradle Of Evolution For Cold-Adapted Mammals?

... Pliocene Tibetan fox localities (red stars), Ice Age (late Pleistocene) arctic fox localities (yellow circles), and extant arctic fox ... as 23 other mammals. The origin of the cold-adapted Pleistocene megafauna has usually been sought either in the arctic tundra or in ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 10 2014 - 9:05pm - 0 attachments

New Study Says It Has Made The Paleoamerican-Native American Connection

... be without some controversy. To build the case for a late Pleistocene age they collaborated with Yemane Asmerom and Victor Polyak from ...

Article - News Staff - May 15 2014 - 5:33pm - 0 attachments

Living Fossils In The Indo-Pacific!

... previously thought to have become extinct within the early Pleistocene. It evolved more than 50 million years ago and is the last survivor ... its disappearance from the Atlantic following the early Pleistocene implicates cooling. The new study highlights the importance of ...

Article - News Staff - May 8 2014 - 4:00am - 0 attachments

Cougars' Diverse Diet Helped Them Survive The Pleistocene Mass Extinction

... supersized mammals that walked the Earth during the late Pleistocene. That is the conclusion of a new analysis of the microscopic ... of the journal Biology Letters . "Before the Late Pleistocene extinction six species of large cats roamed the plains and forests ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 22 2014 - 10:41pm - 0 attachments