We modeled how early human ancestors ran—and found they were surprisingly slow
Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...
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15 Years Later, the National Museum of Natural History Is Still Asking What It Means to Be Human
Koch Hall of Human Origins,” which opened 15 years ago. Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. What does it mean to be human ...
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‘Dietary fingerprints’ show our early ancestors dined mostly on plant-based foods
For decades, scientists have believed that meat-eating drove human evolution, particularly our enlarged brains.
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Discovery: These human ancestors walked upright over 2 million years ago
Paranthropus robustus fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal new insights into their diet, social structure, and survival 2 ...
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Newly Found Bones Change What We Know About Paranthropus robustus
The discovery of new fossils in Swartkrans Cave, South Africa, has reshaped our understanding of Paranthropus robustus, an ...
Have Brazil's Capuchin monkeys reached the Stone Age?
Despite being conducted outside Africa and focusing on a primate far from the evolutionary lineage of Homo sapiens, the study ...
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Kissing the Boers, Donald style
This often noisy exercise in projection is wholly dismissive, for example, of concerns that the man, as the conservative commentator Matthew Parris put it in The Times, is “a slob, a cheat, a ...
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Samples from the far side of the moon gathered by China’s Chang’e 6 mission record eons of tumultuous lunar history ...