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Study shows that sharp change from hard to softer foods at the dawn of agriculture created an overbite which allowed humans to make “v” and “f” sounds.

The idea of a “pristine wilderness” in conservation efforts — a natural zone free of people — is an erroneous construct that doesn’t reflect the reality of how many high-value biodiverse landscapes have operated for millennia, a new study says. In fact, enforcing this concept can cause environmental degradation of these areas when their human […]

Per Ahlberg, Uppsala Tracks in the sand: One of over 50 footprints of predecessors of early humans identified in 2017 near Trachilos, Crete. Dating

Samples of cave breccia, which are broken rock fragments cemented by fine-grained sediment. A Griffith University PhD candidate is the first to use a

Six, 12, and 18. These are the ages that most people get their three adult molars or large chewing teeth towards the back of the mouth. These teeth

As humans are the primary geomorphic agents on the landscape, it is essential to assess the magnitude, chronological span, and future effects of artificial ground that is expanding under modern urbanization at an alarming rate. We argue humans have been primary geomorphic agents of landscapes since the rise of early urbanism that continue to structure our everyday lives. Past and present anthropogenic actions mold a dynamic “taskscape” (not just a landscape) onto the physical environ...

Images: Nikos Kargopoulos The lower jaw of the new otter species, Vishnuonyx neptuni, with a detailed view of its teeth in a 3D...

A new study led by Arizona State University paleoanthropologist Curtis Marean and ASU doctoral graduate Emily Hallett details more than 60 tools made of...

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a 7,200-year-old skeleton from a female hunter-gatherer in Indonesia that has a “distinct human lineage” never found anywhere in the world, according to research published this week.The relatively intact fossil, which belonged to a teenager aged 17 or 18, was buried in the foetal position inside Leang...

The oldest analyzed genome of a modern human from the Wallacea area, the islands between western Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, shows a composition of human relationships that has not yet been described. The individual from whose skull bones the gen