Counter stereotypical findings on Ancient Hominid gender roles.

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Ancient Hominid Males Stayed Home While Females Roamed, Study Finds

ScienceDaily (June 1, 2011) — The males of two bipedal hominid species that roamed the South African savannah more than a million years ago were stay-at-home kind of guys when compared to the gadabout gals, says a new high-tech study led by the University of Colorado Boulder.

The team, which studied teeth from a group of extinct Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus robustus individuals from two adjacent cave systems in South Africa, found more than half of the female teeth were from outside the local area, said CU-Boulder adjunct professor and lead study author Sandi Copeland. In contrast, only about 10 percent of the male hominid teeth were from elsewhere, suggesting they likely grew up and died in the same area...

Runs a little counter to the view of the male hunter and female gatherer.

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Runs a little counter to the view of the male hunter and female gatherer.

I see your bipedal hominids and raise you two legs and a regenerating tail.

Scientists have discovered that the Northern Territory's great desert skink is the only one of the world's 5,000 species of lizard that builds a home for its family.

"This particular lizard is the only one so far that's been documented to construct a burrow system, so they're actually constructing their own home site and they're doing that to benefit their juveniles, their offspring."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/05/27/3229238.htm