Perhaps the most intriguing discovery, however, is that these ancestors behaved like us in at least one poignant way: all three skulls were deliberately tampered with after death, evidently as part of some sort of mortuary practice. "This," says White, "is the earliest evidence of hominids continuing to handle skulls long after the individual died."
A woman has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for the murder of a man whom she and her boyfriend chopped up and fed through a domestic mincer.
Karen Morris, 23, of Selly Park, Birmingham, was found guilty on Monday. Steve Parton, 40, of Perry Barr, admitted the murder at a previous hearing and has been given 18 years. Nelvaughan Brade was hit on the head with an axe and stabbed last November - his body was found on a Norfolk landfill site.
Which is stronger—nature or nurture? The latest science says genes and your experience interact for your whole life - By MATT RIDLEY
One perennial debate about nature and nurture—which is the more potent shaper of the human essence?—is constantly rekindled. It flared up again in the London Observer of Feb. 11, 2001. revealed: the secret of human behavior, read the banner headline. environment, not genes, key to our acts. The source of the story was Craig Venter, the self-made man of genes who had built a private company to read the full sequence of the human genome in competition with an international consortium funded by taxes and charities. That sequence—a string of 3 billion letters, composed in a four-letter alphabet, containing the complete recipe for building and running a human body—was to be published the very next day (the competition ended in an arranged tie). The first analysis of it had revealed that there were just 30,000 genes in it, not the 100,000 that many had been estimating until a few months before.
IT'S the kind of thing that only happens in films... The hero, desperately searching for a terrorist or kidnap victim, taps their name into a computer.
A map comes up on the screen, pinpointing the precise location of their target. The good guys move in, the hunt is over.
Great for movie spooks, but only a scriptwriter's dream? In fact, the technology has arrived that allows anyone to track someone down without them having a clue they are under surveillance.
It has crept in almost unnoticed - and at the centre of this new Big Brother technology-for-all is nothing more sophisticated than our own mobile phones.
A clutch of brand new and perfectly legal internet-based services have just been launched that cost as little as 30p to use, and take less than five seconds to zero in to within 50 metres of where a person is.
SHE WAS at Winston Churchill's side during Britain's darkest hour. And now Charlie the parrot is 104 years old...and still cursing the Nazis.
Her favourite sayings were "F*** Hitler" and "F*** the Nazis". And even today, 39 years after the great man's death, she can still be coaxed into repeating them with that unmistakable Churchillian inflection.
SCOTT Martin's distraught mum Margaret told how she desperately tried to wean her son off his fatal diet of chips, toast and baked beans.
The 56-year-old said he even defied medical experts to keep up his love of junk food. The bizarre diet led to his death at 20 from liver disease and bleeding caused by malnutrition.
Non-scientists may have been surprised to hear that Stephen Hawking spent five hours last weekend watching strippers in Stringfellows.
The 61-year-old Lucasian Professor of Mathematics was particularly taken with the charms of a 19-year-old pole dancer named Tiger.
Never out of breath on the pitch, Toon star Nolberto Solano blew up a storm with his trumpeting skills. He was playing with his salsa band The Geordie Latinos at the Krash bar in Newcastle as they recorded footage for their first DVD.| "We are going to make a recording and see how it goes," said Nobby before the gig. "We hope to record the full set and it should be between an hour to an hour and a half long." The Geordie Latinos were set up by Nobby and pals Jose Escabar and Ian Trewhella. Nobby has also played with Apu, a band made up of three Peruvian brothers based on Tyneside for 20 years. He added: "It's not a big crowd in Newcastle for salsa but it's OK. There are a few Latino people here in Newcastle who follow salsa. "I play salsa because I like it, it's something different from the football. When I was a boy in Peru it was in my head and part of my life."
THEY were two up-and-coming acting talents who seemed made for each other. And Kate Beckinsale and her long-time boyfriend Michael Sheen had a beautiful young daughter to set the seal on their love.
This time last year, their families and friends felt sure they belonged together and marriage was just around the corner.
Today Kate is proudly wearing a glittering diamond engagement ring. But she's not marrying Michael, her boyfriend of nine years. The man who will meet her at the altar is Hollywood director Len Wiseman - and she has known him for little more than nine months.
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THEY were two up-and-coming acting talents who seemed made for each other. And Kate Beckinsale and her long-time boyfriend Michael Sheen had a beautiful young daughter to set the seal on their love.
This time last year, their families and friends felt sure they belonged together and marriage was ju...
Non-scientists may have been surprised to hear that Stephen Hawking spent five hours last weekend watching strippers in Stringfellows.
The 61-year-old Lucasian Professor of Mathematics was particularly taken with the charms of a 19-year-old pole dancer named Tiger.
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