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Evidence Indicates Tree-Dwelling Ancestors Were BipedalTucson AZ (SPX) Mar 23, 2010 More than three million years ago, the ancestors of modern humans were still spending a considerable amount of their lives in trees, but something new was happening. David Raichlen, an assistant professor in the University of Arizona School of Anthropology, and his colleagues at the University at Albany and City University of New York's Lehman College have developed new experimental evidence indicating that these early hominins were walking with a human-like striding gait as long as 3.6 million ye ... read more |
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Niamey (AFP) March 22, 2010West African farmers appealed Monday for help as drought and famine menaced people and livestock, with malnutrition already affecting nearly a third of the population. "Communities of farmers and pastoralists are already severely affected... with the acute malnutrition rate estimated at 29.9 percent, which is double the emergency level of 15 percent," warned Billital Maroobe, a coalition of ... more  
Libreville (AFP) March 22, 2010Gabonese mother Jeannine Bibila is exasperated by constantly dry taps in a country that has tremendous potential for water supply. "Here, to have water, you need to search. It's like being in the desert." "In the desert, you don't find water easily. Sometimes, we go two weeks or even a month without water," explains Bibila, washing a huge pile of laundry at a public fountain in Kinguele, nor ... more  
Doha (AFP) March 22, 2010A UN body rejected Monday proposals by Zambia and Tanzania to reopen trade in ivory that experts say would have worsened a surge in illegal trafficking driven by Asian-based organised crime. After a tense debate, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), meeting in Doha, voted down Tanzania's request to sell 80.5 tonnes of stockpiled ivory to Japan and China. Z ... more |
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Haiti's cultural heritage faces quake extinctionPort-Au-Prince (AFP) March 21, 2010 Brilliant colors shine through the ruins of the Cathedrale de la Sainte-Trinite, fragments of wonderful murals that were the climax of Haiti's artistic explosion 60 years ago. For gallery owner Toni Monnin, the loss of irreplaceable frescoes by the first generation of Haitian master painters is the most powerful symbol of the cultural devastation wrought by the January 12 earthquake. "There was this explosion of art in Haiti after the Second World War like nowhere else in the world," explained M ... read more |
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