CBC News An extinct hominid species that shared the planet with our ancestors almost two million years ago had a mating strategy where the males take much longer to reach maturity than females, scientists said on Thursday.So what else is new? I can see that things haven't changed that much in the last two million years, just look at today's teenagers!Allan W Janssen is the author of The Plain Truth About God at www.God-101.com and the blog "Perspective" at http://God-101.blogspot.com
According to an article in The Herald Tribune, the famous Lucy Fossil, the will leave Africa for the first time in 3.2 million years...well, if they can locate the U.S. on the world map.;)Lucy, the first-known hominid is very fragile and there is some controversy about whether she should make the trip.--The Clever Cynichttp://theclevercynic.blogspot.com/http://theclevercynic.blogspot.com/
The artist for the little yellow guy you see to your right, had a nice sit down with GameIndustry.biz touching on the Live Arcade itself, as well as delving into the benefits of being an “indie” game maker.
One of the most obvious things about the XBLA no one seems to state in print, that should help push upcoming devs into snagging an XNA account if they don’t already have one, Dan states,“XBLA has come just in time; it’s profitable and it works for everybody. The consumer pays less, the developer sees more and Microsoft has to be happy because they set it up. So everybody is happy in the end and that’s awesome.”
He speaks on an upcoming XBLA game called Castle Crashers saying “It’s a beat-em-up, a brawler of sorts, with RPG elements. It’s also an adventure. It’s 2D but you have a playfield that you can move in and out of, like River City Ransom.”
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Not only can you play the original flashgame HERE but the very successful indie game that I mentioned only weeks ago has just been picked up for Xbox Live Arcade! Check it out here @ Xbox.com
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In an interview with superblog 1UP, Aaron Greenberg was on the defensive over the lack of stellar Xbox Live Arcade titles over the past several weeks. In addition to the traditional lines supporting their handling of XBLA, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. There were a few things from the interview that were notable, and worthy of mention
1.) Greenberg promised that we will be seeing new XBLA titles at the coming GDC in March.
2.) He acknowledged that the past few weeks have, quote, “We hear the feedback, I can assure you that these last few weeks of Xbox Live Arcade releases was not the way we planned it…”
3.) Alien Hominid is coming next week, this why you’re still reading this.
Yup, in the interview with 1UP, Greenberg gave us this little gem:
We are excited to bring Alien Hominid out next week; we are excited to make up for lost time.
I don’t know how much more concrete you can ask a release date to be, short of having Greenberg state “Yes, Alien Ho
Modern human mothers are probably happy that they typically have one, maybe two babies at a time, but for early hominids, low birth numbers combined with competition often spelled extinction."The lineages of primates have some traits that make it hard for them to respond to rapid perturbations in the environment," says Dr. Nina G. Jablonski [1], professor of anthropology and department head at Penn State. "Through time we see a lot of lineages become extinct when environments where the species are found become highly seasonal or unpredictable."Primates evolved in the Paleocene and Eocene when worldwide climate was less seasonal. The beneficial environment allowed primates to evolve as relatively brainy animals that reproduce slowly. However, when climate changed so that tropical forests shrunk and the environment became patchy, many species including primate species became extinct."While past primate populations moved with the forest, early hominid cultures 2.5 million years ago show s
