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Sweeping ribbon of white lights Photographer Martin Kimbell shows he is a real bright spark with these spectacular light drawings, which use the night sky as his canvas. The 25-year-old used a special technique to create the intricate spirals, which look like they were created on the 1960s toy Spirograph. The images meander among the trees, and a tornado-like beam that extends from the sky. MWN / MARTIN KIMBELL/SOLENT NEWS
OMG! Ancestors’ flying fists shaped our faces Human faces might have been shaped by violent fist fights, according to research at the University of Utah, which deals a heavy to blow to prior research that showed changes in bone structure were the result of the dietary need to crush hard foods. Lead researcher David Carrier explains to Metro why
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stronger bones were needed to buttress against a new form of boxing. What were our ancestors fighting about? I think it would have been pretty much the same as gorillas and chimpanzees: competition over females, territory and defense of one’s
Visit us online at Metro.us/omg for more interviews. family and offspring. So in some ways it’s similar to today. So why was there a need for such considerable facial reconstruction? This evolution occurred at the same time that our hands were changing in proportion to allow us to make a fist-like club. The bones which are susceptible to fracturing during a fist fight have increased in both australopiths and humans. EDWARD THOMPSON
They contend that human faces — especially those of our australopith ancestors — evolved to minimize injury from punches to the face during fights. / UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
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