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The top human evolution discoveries of 2025, from the intriguing Neanderthal diet to the oldest Western European face fossil
This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...
Sex and gender in paleoanthropology / Lori D. Hager -- Good science, bad science, or science as usual? Feminist critiques of science / Alison Wylie -- Is primatology a feminist science? / Linda Marie ...
Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...
Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift—driven not by genes, but by culture. "Human evolution seems to be changing ...
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Why evolution gave women longer lives than men? Historian explains the grandmother effect that secures our future
What if menopause wasn’t the end of fertility but the beginning of a more critical role for women? According to historian and professor Roy Casagranda, evolution didn’t just allow women to live longer ...
In 1758, Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus gave humans a scientific name: Homo sapiens, which means "wise human" in Latin. Although Linnaeus grouped humans with other apes, it was English biologist ...
Shaw Badenhorst works for the University of the Witwatersrand. He receives funding from GENUS, the National Research Foundation and the Palaeontological Scientific Trust. South Africa has one of the ...
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