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Tag Archives: Africa
Wildlife of Africa and the links to wildlife of South America
When South America split from Africa (see previous blog) it became, for much of the past 130 million years, an island continent, and on it organisms evolved in “splendid isolation.” Mammals, especially, evolved into forms not seen anywhere else. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, Americas, ecocide, endangered species, gondwana, megafauna, organised crime, origins of life, prehistoric, South Africa, South America, wildlife
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Migration from colder climates to tropical areas
Costa Rica is one of the countries in Central America, first inhabited around 10000 years ago by tribes who had travelled across the world to this spot, and they found it covered with rainforest. Central American rainforests are environmentally sensitive … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, asia, costa rica, endangered species, Europe, indigenous peoples, migration, rainforests, reserves, seismic tourism, skin protection from sun, spain
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The Great Rift Valley route out to world exploration
The Red Sea (also the Erythraean Sea) is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. The sea is underlain by the Red Sea Rift which is part of the Great Rift Valley, that stretches across … Continue reading
How we can remain healthy since we first shed our fur coats
Africa would appear to have the longest record of human habitation in the world. The first hominins are likely to have emerged 6-7 million years ago, and among the earliest anatomically modern human skulls were discovered at Omo Kibish, south … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, athlete, chimpanzee, China, folate, genetics, health, hominids shed fur, hunter and gatherer, magnesium, runner, UV rays, vit D
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2.5 Mya Africa: Homo habilis (Handy Man) to 15.5 thousand years ago in Americas
We all know how we each care about the location attributes of where we find ourselves living. We may be, currently, thousands of years down the line since our ancestors began to walk on two legs rather then four, but … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, Americas, england, flint, france, homo erectus, homo habilis, Leakey, pleistocene, solutrean, stone tools, wood
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The seafaring Neanderthals and their descendants, the seafaring Pacific Islanders
We are learning far more about ourselves thanks to the Human Genome Project. Adding this avalanche of new findings to what has been collected by other branches of discovery since, for example, the Taung child skull found in South Africa … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, apache, asia, fiji, genetics, melanesia, new guinea, new mexico, pacific, seafaring neanderthals, taiwan, taung skull, tectonics, zuni
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From Africa to Australia, then thousands of years later, arrival of the Scots
I have put together what, to me, and surely any other curious person, is the fascinating current understanding of the ancient people who made their way to Australia, possible 40 to 70,000 years ago. Those humans knew how to light … Continue reading
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Tagged aborigine, Africa, archaeology, australia, genetics, genome project, migration, mungo lady, mungo man, neanderthal
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