Tag: Human evolution
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...
Humans evolved with their microbiomes – like genes, your gut microbes...
Taichi A. Suzuki, Max Planck Institute for Biology and Ruth Ley, Max Planck Institute for Biology
When the first...
When was talking invented? A language scientist explains how this unique...
Richard Futrell, University of California, Irvine
Curious Kids is a series for children of all...
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...
A taste for sweet – an anthropologist explains the evolutionary origins...
Stephen Wooding, University of California, Merced
The sweetness of sugar is one of life’s great pleasures. People’s love for sweet is so visceral, food...
When did we become fully human? What fossils and DNA tell...
Nick Longrich, University of Bath
When did something like us first appear on the planet? It turns out there’s remarkably little agreement on this question....
Archaeological discoveries are happening faster than ever before, helping refine the...
Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York) and Mary Prendergast, Saint Louis University – Madrid
In 1924, a 3-year-old child’s skull...
Examining how primates make vowel sounds pushes timeline for speech evolution...
Thomas R. Sawallis, University of Alabama and Louis-Jean Boë, Université Grenoble Alpes
Sound doesn’t fossilize. Language doesn’t either.
Even when writing systems have developed, they’ve represented...
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Simply copying nature is no way to succeed at inventing –...
By David Taylor, Trinity College Dublin
Where do inventions come from? There’s no magic formula, but there are ways to improve your creativity. One method...
