Toumai (Sahelanthropus tchadensis) was thought to be right at the foot of the human family tree.
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Fossils from this ancient offshoot of the human family tree, called Australopithecus sediba, were discovered in 2008 at Malapa, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
Besides the Argan tree's various human uses, UNESCO notes, it has had an historical role as a buffer against northern expansion of the Sahara desert.
Scanning the teeth of A. sediba, and perhaps other enigmatic creatures such as the Indonesian "hobbit", could further resolve their relationship to other members of the human family tree.
The HDI Tree aggregates data in the Human Development Index graphically instead of numerically.
Triangular blue pacu, iridescent, fiery-finned pirupatanga and streamlined yellow dorado gather in shoals or slip effortlessly between fallen tree trunks, eyeing the ungainly human intruders warily.
Moreover, the HDI tree represents an alternative way of branding the idea of Human Development and communicating its message graphically to a wide audience.
Mawle describes his character Gerald, a wealthy industrialist, as "at the top of the tree but equally conflicted with his lack of self-worth and human frailties".
Fungi, such as tree lungwort, has been found to contain properties that could fight the human form of "mad cow disease".
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"Human organisms are not things you hang ornaments on like a Christmas tree, " says Thomas Murray, Hastings' director.
Myriad has no more right to patent these parts of the naturally occurring code in the human genome than it would to patent an apple, or a branch off of a tree that could be used to hit a ball or scratch your back, Ravicher says.
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Reflecting on human suffering, Annie Dillard was once moved to suggest that God must care more about the tree of humanity than the individual leaves that fall from it.
The main attraction is supposed to be the human heart, not a big, blabbering snowman who slides down hills and has his crystals rearranged by tree branches and plows.
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