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 The oldest ancestor of monkeys, apes and humans lived in North Africa 29 million years ago, had a smaller brain than previously thought and the difference in the size of both sexes was very large, as it relates to a type of social structure in which lived in the same group several males and females. This has been ascertained by the study of a skull of the species Aegyptopithecus zeuxis, conducted by researchers at Duke University.
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 The hands of the various hominid that lived in Atapuerca (Burgos) makes between 800,000 and 350,000 years were so clever as ours. The set of bones that allow speech was not significantly different from ours. Thus, no significant morphological differences would explain a greater intelligence.
The study of the hands of the various hominid that lived in Atapuerca (Burgos) makes between 800,000 and 350,000 years shows that these hominids were as skilled as us.
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 For about 65 million years, a large percentage of vegetables and animals suddenly became extinct. It was late Cretaceous period and there are several theories. Some scientists attribute this event to a gradual process that led to selective extinction. Others assert that a catastrophe like the fall of an asteroid that caused a mass extinction of these species.
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 Scientists at the University of Valencia (UV) have discovered a new species of rodent that inhabits the area for about 16 million years. The limited number of fossils has prevented researchers know the full aspect of this animal called Eomyops noeliae, which remains a mystery.
However, it can provide, from their teeth, the only fossils found, which showed morphological differences with respect to biometrics, and other rodents of the genus.
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Paloumbas team, responsible for placing value on deposit incites (dinosaur footprints) of the square Breton in Scoria, has discovered new traces of two footprints belonging to a carnivore that lived in this area 145 million years ago .