Make a fool of yourself and live longer with a pet
An article highlights pet therapy as a path to longer life and better recovery from heart events. Dr Rand Stoneburner and Dr Stuart Brodsky cite studies showing dogs and other pets reduce stress, lower blood pressure, and improve mood in patients, children, and the elderly.
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South Africa
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Stuart Brodsky
Westside Veterinary Center
Manhattan
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Unearthing Our Past Expands Human Family Tree
The Smithsonian reports at least 17 prehuman species and over 5,000 archaic individuals known, with a 5.5 million year old Ethiopian forest-dweller new to the family. Homo erectus lingered 2 million years, Neanderthals vanished ~25,000 years ago, while Homo sapiens emerged as adaptable language users shaping a tangled evolutionary bush.
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Earth
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Smithsonian Institution
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Wall Street
Leslie Aiello
University College, London
Nature
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Europe
Near East
Lucy the Australopithecus afarensis discovery summary
Lacy: Her way to homes She was a puny little thing about three and a half feet tall and weighing less than 65 pounds but she made a big splash in the booming science of human origins. The archeologists who found her bones in 1974 dubbed her Lucy after the Beatles song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds but her scientific name is Australopithecus afarensis meaning Southern Ape from the Afar basin of Ethiopia. Several hundred fragments about 40 percent of Lucy's skeleton were recovered including most of her skull arm and leg bones ribs and pelvis. She had an ape like snout low forehead and big teeth. Lucy's leg and pelvic bones show that she walked on two feet when on the ground but her curved fingers indicate she also spent a lot of time in trees. She apparently lived on fruits and foliage. Her brain was small about 400 cubic centimeters a quarter the size of a modern person's. Scientists consider the australopiths a halfway stage between apes and humans. Lucy lived about 3.2 million years ago.
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Lucy
Peking Man and Homo erectus through the ages
Fossil finds at the Peking Man site near Beijing reveal Homo erectus a long lived archaic human group that spread across Europe and Asia for nearly two million years. They stood about five foot seven, had thick brow ridges and a brain around 1000 cubic centimeters.
Neanderthals Locked In Hip to Language Debate
Neanderthals, Homo sapiens relatives, coexisted in Europe and the Middle East for over 10,000 years. They were stocky hunters with large brains but less developed tools and language, yet buried the dead and made bone flutes. Thinker Kaiaht Ridder Tribune notes enduring questions about their linguistic abilities.
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