Ancient Women Go Far to Find a Pet

When the time comes for a member of the human family from South Africa to find a mate about 2 million years ago, it turns out the women, not men, who take the initiative.

From a recent research note that the women away from their place of birth is much morefrequently than men, which are surprisingly more diligent to be around the home andrelatives.

Sandi Copeland, paleoanthropologist from the University of Colorado, United States,along with international team of researchers analyzed 19 ancient human teeth from twospecies of the Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus robustus. Two species of early humans is close to our direct ancestors that Australopithecine.

"From the research, found preliminary evidence that explains the pattern of spreadamong humans earlier," Copeland said, as quoted by Science Now, June 27, 2011.

The findings reported in the journal Nature indicates that the patrilocal group, whereyoung families generally live in or near the residence of parents of the male partner, is a habit that has prevailed since ancient times.

Currently, Copeland and his team do not know the reason why men than women rarelygo far in the region that there are no natural barriers. To that end, he and his team willfind out whether the same pattern applies to the australopithecines in other regions inAfrica to find out whether it is a way of managing their tribe.

However, according to Peter Ungar, paleoanthropologists from the University ofArkansas, Copeland and his team managed to find innovative ways to test the researchmodel. "In the process, they develop early evidence how early Manisa organize theirgroups," he said.




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