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... Pliocene), much older and more primitive than its Ice Age (Pleistocene) descendants in the mammoth steppes across much of Europe and ... offers new insights into the origin of the cold-adapted Pleistocene megafauna, which has usually been sought in arctic tundra or in ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 1 2011 - 4:30pm - 0 attachments

... environment of our ancestors (assumed to be the African Pleistocene savanna).  Gradualism. According to ...

Article - Gunnar De Winter - Jul 22 2011 - 7:28am - 0 attachments

... down about 300 pounds of vegetation each day. During the Pleistocene this extinct elephant extended his habitat down into Central ...

Blog Post - Heidi Henderson - Jul 10 2011 - 5:30pm - 0 attachments

The fact that I am swamped by the too many activities I am involved in these days can be gauged by things like the following: I get to know about important new physics results coming from an experiment I am part of by... private communications from amateu ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 31 2011 - 1:21pm - 0 attachments

People may object to my calling for Ph.D. programs in Theoretical Phys Ed and Quantum Paleontology, but humor is not far off the mark.  Evolutionary psychology, for example, is practically self-ridiculing.    But I was somewhat intrigued ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 7 2011 - 7:11pm - 0 attachments

You've seen it everywhere by now -  Earth's sixth mass extinction: Is it almost here? and other articles discussing an article in Nature ( 471, 51–57 doi:10.1038/nature09678) claiming the end of the world is nigh.   Hey, I l ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 9 2011 - 10:58pm - 0 attachments

Observations and climate model results confirm that human-induced warming of the planet is having a pronounced effect on the atmosphere’s total moisture content. “When you heat the planet, you increase the ability of the atmosphere to hold moisture, ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 18 2007 - 3:25pm - 1 attachment

... have suggested several scenarios to account for the rapid Pleistocene extinction event. Some experts believe that a comet or asteroid ... : Haynes Jr. et al., 'The Murray Springs Clovis site, Pleistocene extinction, and the question of extraterrestrial impact', March ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 12 2010 - 5:31pm - 0 attachments

... better stay with what we have evolved with during the Pleistocene (read here on why this makes sense). However, skeptics ridicule ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Dec 14 2010 - 10:01am - 0 attachments

... Many of those famous Morrocan trilobites are faked, as are Pleistocene mammal skulls from around the world. Indeed, for anybody that ...

Article - Oliver Knevitt - Feb 7 2011 - 12:58pm - 0 attachments