News articles tagged with 'braincase'
The brains of Neanderthals and modern humans developed differently
— 10 Nov 2010 15:01 | Geology and palaeontologyWhether cognitive differences exist between modern humans and Neanderthals is the subject of contentious disputes in anthropology and archaeology. Because the brain size range of modern…
Differences in human and Neanderthal brains set in just after birth
— 9 Nov 2010 11:34 | HealthThe brains of newborn humans and Neanderthals are about the same size and appear rather similar overall. It's mainly after birth, and specifically in the first year of life, that the…
Scientists discover at the European Synchrotron the first fossil brain
— 3 Mar 2009 16:10 | Geology and palaeontologyA 300-million-year-old brain of a relative of sharks and ratfish has been revealed by French and American scientists using synchrotron holotomography at the European Synchrotron Radiation…
Oldest fossil brain found in Kansas and imaged in France
— 3 Mar 2009 14:50 | Geology and palaeontologyWhen Alan Pradel of the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris CAT scanned a 300-million-year-old fossilised iniopterygian from Kansas, he and his colleagues saw a symmetrical…
New piece in the jigsaw puzzle of human origins
— 19 Jan 2009 18:20 | Geology and palaeontologyIn an article in the recent issue of Nature, Uppsala researcher Martin Brazeau describes the skull and jaws of a fish that lived about 410 million years ago. The study may give important…
From fish to tetrapod
— 25 Jun 2008 17:00 | Geology and palaeontologyWith the skull shape of an early tetrapod, but proportions like a fish, an exceptionally well-preserved braincase fossil of the species Ventastega curonica from the Late Devonian of…
Early modern human skull includes surprising Neanderthal feature
— 11 Aug 2007 14:49 | Geology and palaeontologyIn 1942, a human braincase was found in Romania during phosphate mining. The skull's geological age has remained uncertain. Now, new radiocarbon analysis appearing in the August issue…
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