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The Olduvai Paleoanthropological and Paleoecological Project (TOPPP) in which the the Universidad Complutense de Madrid participated aims to expose the false presumptions made by previous studies which concluded that the first humans were scavengers... Dominguez-Rodrigo and his team have proved that what the other researchers interpreted as teeth marks made by carnivores on the fossils, are in reality biochemical marks with a very different origin, such as fungus and bacteria that were brought in to contact with the bones by the roots of plants that grew in the sediment in which they were buried... The new data also shows that...

LEAKEY, Texas - Gov. Rick Perry took time out from the last-minute legislative rush to attend a small Hill Country graduation at the request of a student. Sara Wallace, 19, asked Perry to speak to Ed Brune Charter School's graduating class of five Tuesday after meeting him at a turkey hunt near Fredericksburg during the Christmas holidays. "The governor came to speak at the school because Sara asked him. He heard her story and the kinds of challenges she and the other kids at the youth ranch had to deal with, and he wanted to let them know personally that...

In mid-2003 we published an article on the finding of specimens named Homo sapiens idàltu near Herto, Ethiopia—see Ethiopian ‘earliest humans’ find—pointing out how these finds were a serious blow to long-age compromise on Genesis history. As the main species name given to these fossils indicates, they were clearly human, in both our opinion and that of the bulk of the secular science community. The fact that they shared some so-called ‘primitive’ characteristics with e.g. Homo erectus and/or Neandertal (and/or ‘archaic sapiens’) specimens only confirmed our view that all of these so-called ‘earlier’ types are part of the same biological...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The mother-daughter team of Maeve and Louise Leakey is the latest explorers-in-residence at the National Geographic (news - web sites) Society. The Leakeys, both paleontologists, continue the archaeological research begun in 1924 in Africa by Louis S.B. Leakey, the father-in-law of Maeve and the grandfather of Louise. The society announced their selection Tuesday.Maeve Leakey is the current leader of the family and has reported the find of a 3.5-million-year-old fossil skull and partial jaw, believed to be from a new branch of early humans. She has worked at the National Museums of Kenya since 1969. In 1994...