Tag: Paleoanthropology
Fossil teeth reveal how brains developed in utero over millions of...
Tesla Monson, Western Washington University
Fossilized bones help tell the story of what human beings and our predecessors were...
New research suggests modern humans lived in Europe 10,000 years earlier...
Ludovic Slimak, Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès; Clément Zanolli, Université de Bordeaux; Jason E. Lewis, Stony Brook University (The State University of...
When and how was walking invented?
Jan Simek, University of Tennessee
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Early humans used fire to permanently change the landscape tens of...
Jessica Thompson, Yale University; David K. Wright, University of Oslo, and Sarah Ivory, Penn State
Fields of rust-colored soil,...
Early humans used fire to permanently change the landscape tens of...
Jessica Thompson, Yale University; David K. Wright, University of Oslo, and Sarah Ivory, Penn State
Fields of rust-colored soil,...
Ancient DNA is revealing the genetic landscape of people who first...
Melinda A. Yang, University of Richmond
The very first human beings originally emerged in Africa before spreading across Eurasia about 60,000 years ago. After that,...
Last of the giants: What killed off Madagascar’s megafauna a thousand...
Nick Scroxton, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Laurie Godfrey, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Stephen Burns, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Giant 10-foot-tall elephant birds, with eggs...
Brain-imaging modern people making Stone Age tools hints at evolution of...
Shelby Putt, Indiana University
How did humans get to be so smart, and when did this happen? To untangle this question, we need...