anthropology
Researchers reveal a new microstructural marker for malting in the archaeological record
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Findings have implications for studying evolution of menopause, birth patterns, and offspring rearing of earlier humans
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Research team points out how bureaucratic inefficiency can be likened to that of the peer-review process associated with academic research in the health sciences
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A new study on the microbiomes of our ancestors offers hypotheses about the influence of microbes on our early social and daily lives
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Preserved as pieces of charcoal, the morsels were recovered from the debris of ancient cooking hearths at the Madjedbebe archaeological site
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Brain imprints on cranial bones from great apes and humans refute the long-held notion that the human pattern of brain asymmetry is unique
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A team of international researchers dug deep to find some of the oldest African DNA on record, in a new study published in Nature
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A new study shows the process was not started by our own species, but by some of our ancestors
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In a recently-published review, researchers describe how ancestral origins impact the likelihood that people of African or Eurasian descent might develop immune-related diseases
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Modern humans evolved in Africa, and we now know that human groups from all over the continent contributed to that process. A group of scientists says that means it is time to stop arguing about where in Africa humans 'really' came from
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