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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ba69baad-5883-4c7e-9feb-5554cce8ee94/D2BDB20F-5476-4797-9B14-950D7B064A55/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/cavemen/factfiles/paranthropus_boisei.html?img3" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/cavemen/factfiles/paranthropus_boisei.html?img3" style="font-size: 11px;">www.bbc.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/cavemen/factfiles/paranthropus_boisei.html?img3"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD width="294" valign="top" bgcolor="#cccc99">		<TABLE width="294" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">		<TBODY><TR>		<TD width="100%" bgcolor="#666633"><IMG width="100%" height="1" alt="" src="http://www.bbc.co.uk/furniture/tiny.gif" /></TD>		</TR>		<TR>		<TD>			<TABLE cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" border="0">			<TBODY><TR>			<TD valign="top">			<P><B>Meaning:</B> 'Near man of Boise' after Charles Boise, financial patron of the Leakey family.</P>			<P><B>Lived:</B> 2.3 - 1.2 million years ago.</P>			<P><B>Range:</B> East Africa (Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Kenya).</P>			<P><B>Diet:</B> Nuts, tubers, termites, possibly papyrus rhizomes.</P>			<P><B>Size:</B> <I>M</I>: 137cm / 49kg <I>F</I>: 124cm / 34kg </P>			<P><B>Brain Size:</B> 39% the size of a modern brain.</P>			</TD>			</TR>			</TBODY></TABLE>		</TD>		</TR>		</TBODY></TABLE>	</TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/cavemen/factfiles/paranthropus_boisei.html?img3"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.bbc.co.uk/img/54782884-0955-421D-BBFE-52382CB49FDB" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/cavemen/factfiles/paranthropus_boisei.html?img3"><B>Description</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/cavemen/factfiles/paranthropus_boisei.html?img3"><P>This vegetarian apeman had a big, flat face with a massive jaw. It lived at a time when forests were vanishing from East Africa, creating a shortage of food such as soft fruit.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/cavemen/factfiles/paranthropus_boisei.html?img3"><P><I>Paranthropus boisei</I> coped with the shortage by evolving a massive jaw and huge teeth to chomp tough-to-chew foods such as nuts, roots, seeds and tubers.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/cavemen/factfiles/paranthropus_boisei.html?img3"><P>These hard, gritty foods were more abundant in the open woodland and grasslands that <I>boisei</I> called home.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/cavemen/factfiles/paranthropus_boisei.html?img3"><P><I>Paranthropus boisei</I> may have lived in groups organized in harems, in which one male mated with many females. Males were easy to spot amongst a harem of females; they were much more muscular with much bigger faces.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D2BDB20F-5476-4797-9B14-950D7B064A55/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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