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Natural selection reveals itself as not just a metaphor but a mixed one: Nature being dumb but nevertheless capable of discrimination.

Every year, our knowledge of the past improves a little bit. 2016 has been no different. Scientists have made several discoveries and revelations which

Despite decades of Indigenous activism and resistance, UC Berkeley has failed to return the remains of thousands of Native Americans to tribes.

Tune in to programs about the original paleo diet, an environmental film festival and more at the National Museum of Natural History.

Southern Europe was apparently a climate refuge during the frigid millennia when these people lived.

Genes from ancestors protecting against infectious diseases persist in modern humans, despite being linked to metabolic and immune diseases.

The discoveries include evidence that Oldowan tools were used to cut and pound animal flesh far earlier than previously known.

Objectives: To present a new dental specimen that will provide additional evidence for a better understanding of early European Upper Pleistocene hominin morphological variability. Materials and Methods: We described the morphology of this human right lower third molar at both the outer enamel surface and the enamel–dentine junction by means of micro-computed tomography. In order to better understand hominin diversity, our morphological and metrical results were compared with those of other ho...

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In the first study to look at the evolution of hair types, researchers found tightly coiled hair provides a trade-off of shielding the head from the sun while minimising unwanted insulating