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Homo erectus skulls found in Dmanisi, Georgia. Paul Tafforeau/ESRF Our earliest ancestors weren’t as brainy as we thought, fossil skulls suggest Apr. 8, 2021 , 2:00 PM Pinpointing when our ancient ancestors evolved humanlike brains is a frustratingly difficult puzzle. Brains almost never fossilize, so researchers must scrutinize impressions in the skull left behind by the brain’s grooves, folds, and bulges. A new analysis of such imprints from five skulls suggests our genus,  Homo,...

Bone tools found in Riwi Cave in the Kimberley, WA. Credit: Michelle Langley New research has reappraised the age of bone artefacts found in a famous Kimberley cave site as being more than 35,000 years old, making them among the oldest bone tools found in Australia. Published in the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, the team of scientists from across Australia analysed eight bone artefacts from Riwi Cave in Mimbi country in south-central Kimberley, Western Australia. Dr Michelle Lang...

How did humans evolve, and will they evolve more? – Anya T., 13, Brookline, Massachusetts Everything that is alive today has evolved, including human beings. Our ancestors evolved many traits that helped them survive in their environments, and we still have many of those traits today. Two of the most important and consequential traits are walking on two legs and having a large brain. I’m a scholar of human evolution. I study how evolution works, including how it has changed the shape of th...

How did humans evolve, and will they evolve more? – Anya T., 13, Brookline, Massachusetts Everything that is alive today has evolved, including human beings. Our ancestors evolved many traits that helped them survive in their environments, and we still have many of those traits today. Two of the most important and consequential traits are walking on two legs and having a large brain. I’m a scholar of human evolution. I study how evolution works, including how it has changed the shape of th...

Archaeological evidence in a rockshelter at the edge of the Kalahari Desert, South Africa, is challenging the idea that the origins of our species were linked to coastal environments. Dr Jayne Wilkins.Published in Nature, Dr Jayne Wilkins from Griffi

105,000-Year-Old Kalahari Crystals Challenge Cultural Evolution Story New research at a rockshelter on the edge of the Kalahari Desert in South Africa challenges the assumption that modern human origins and complex behaviors were limited to coastal environments. A collection of unusual artifacts that are more than 100,000 years old suggests that inland Homo sapiens were just as innovative as their coastal cousins. There is a widespread belief that the origins of modern humans and modern hum...

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Download 23.11 MB We take a close look at the human body - it’s past, present and future from an evolutionary point of view with:   Professor Tanya Smith , Human Evolutionary Biologist with Griffith Universitys Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution and author of Tales Teeth Tell Dr. Michelle Langley, Senior Research Fellow at Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution at Griffith University and a Lecturer in Archaeology  Duration: 50min 28sec

“Man the Hunter” is a narrative of human origins developed by early 20th-century anthropologists armed with their imaginations and a handful of fossils. They viewed hunting – done by men – as the prime driver of human evolution, bestowing upon our early ancestors’ bipedalism, big brains, tools and a lust for violence. In this narrative, hunting also gave rise to the nuclear family, as women waited at home for men to bring home the meat. Play A France24 report on the Peru findings....

Tuesday, March 9, 2021 BURGOS, SPAIN—According to a statement released by Spains National Research Center for Human Evolution (CENIEH), a team of researchers has been able to use digital photography and 3-D scans to study a collection of footprints discovered in the main gallery deep inside northern Spain’s Palomera Cave in 1969. The use of new technology has allowed the researchers to study the more than 1,200 footprints without damaging them. Radiocarbon dating of the remains of torches ...