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.
There’s a New ‘Hunger Games’ Novel. Here’s What You Need to Know.
Every year on July 4, all district children between the ages of 12 and 18 are entered into a lottery, and one boy and one ...
The Language Puzzle: Read an excerpt from a book on the history of the spoken word
Did early humans have rules for how words could be strung together? What impact did the ability to talk have on brains, behaviour and social evolution?
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Science in protest
Scientists for Extinction Rebellion is a diverse group of individuals, including astrophysicists, biochemists, ecologists, ...
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Early Human Ancestors Ran Slower Than Expected
Where parts were missing, we estimated these using scaled versions of other Australopithecus skeletons. Since Lucy is a shared ancestor for chimpanzees as well, we also morphed Australopith and modern ...