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5 giorni fa · Laili in Timor-Leste is on the southern dispersal route between Eurasia and Australasia and has the earliest record of human occupation in the eastern Wallacean archipelago.
5 giorni fa · Fear of predators can itself reduce prey population growth rates [2,3] and cause trophic cascades [1,4–8]. Fear of humans has also now been demonstrated to cause cascading impacts from carnivores to ungulates and rodents to plants in experiments simply broadcasting playbacks of people speaking [ 1 , 9 – 12 ].
4 giorni fa · Human evolution is the evolutionary process within the history of primates that led to the emergence of Homo sapiens as a distinct species of the hominid family that includes all the great apes.
3 giorni fa · Such predator-prey interactions are crucial ecological drivers of evolution, although the role of electrical charges in these processes has remained mostly unexplored by researchers. “To rectify this, we investigated whether naturally occurring static electricity provides a hidden dimension to predator-prey interactions as a source of sensory information,” the researchers write.
17 ore fa · A new study in Nature Human Behavior finds evidence supporting the endurance pursuit hypothesis, which suggests early humans evolved to run long distances to hunt prey. Researchers analyzed 400 historical cases of long-distance running in hunting, contradicting the notion that endurance running is rare.
2 giorni fa · During those years there was also work on human fossil anatomy and anthropology. In 1862 he examined the Neanderthal skull-cap, which had been discovered in 1857. It was the first pre-sapiens discovery of a fossil man, and it was immediately clear to him that the brain case was surprisingly large.
2 giorni fa · Medium-sized prey includes wild boar, Indian hog deer, Indian muntjac and northern plains gray langur. Small prey such as porcupine, hare and peafowl form a small part of its diet. Because of the encroachment of humans into tiger habitat, it also preys on domestic livestock.
