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Eosimias, which lived 45 million years ago, made news last week when paleontologists disclosed new fossil evidence placing the little animal at a critical juncture in the history of life. According to their report in Nature, it was the species that directly followed a significant branching of the evolutionary tree. One limb led to the prosimians, or lower primates, such as lemurs and bush babies, and the other to the anthropoids, or higher primates, such as monkeys, apes and humans. Eosimias may be the first species on the anthropoid branch of the tree...
Wrangham said he reasoned that the nutritional effect of cooking should be evident from the fossil record. There was only one period that shows dramatic changes in tooth structure and body size, about 1.9 million years...
...this, and what's still to come is the byproduct of global warming, a phenomenon by which the burning of fossil fuels traps solar heat within the earth's atmosphere, changing global weather patterns. If this theory is correct, then the basic equilibrium that has maintained the earth's natural heating and cooling system for the past 10,000 years is about to be thrown into turmoil. We will be left...
DIED. BILL BOWERMAN, 88, track coach and Nike co-founder, who sparked the '70s jogging boom; in Fossil, Ore. In 24 years at the University of Oregon, Bowerman coached Steve Prefontaine and the 1972 Olympic team, and used his wife's waffle iron to develop Nike's revolutionary running sole...