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Daniel E. Lieberman ’86 on extending ‘healthspan’, scientific humor, and barefoot-running along the Charles | Magazine | The Harvard Crimson

New findings and significant advances in research have scientists rethinking our origins, and museums around the world are working to catch the public up.

New findings and significant advances in research have scientists rethinking our evolutionary origins. Following this development...

Fossil evidence shows that humans have been practising cannibalism for a million years. Now, archaeologists are discovering that some of the time they did it to honour their dead

Chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans and gorillas frequently toy with their peers by poking, tickling or stealing from them, perhaps showing behaviours that were prerequisites for human joking

New findings and significant advances in research have scientists rethinking our origins, and museums around the world are working to catch the public up.

Investigators hope to break down the chronology of the Rongorongo script.

Fossil evidence shows that humans have a very long history of eating each other. Now, archaeologists are discovering that the practice of cannibalism could be surprisingly compassionate

New archaeological evidence shows that ancient humans ate each other surprisingly often - sometimes for compassionate reasons. The finds give us an opportunity to reassess our views on the practice

This process of evolution by divergence has been operating for nearly 3.5 billion years across the Earth, resulting in the spectacular biodiversity that we see – both in fossil records (such as of dinosaurs) and in today’s living world. How has this knowledge helped us and what might we learn from it?