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Quintessential human traits such as large brains first appear in Homo erectus nearly 2 million years ago. This evolutionary transition towards

Quintessential human traits such as large brains first appear in Homo erectus nearly 2 million years ago. This evolutionary transition towards

A new study questions the overwhelmingly dominant ‘meat made humans’ hypothesis by revealing a confirmation bias error in the way the data has been presented.

Study argues that evidence in favor of increased meat eating could be skewed by sampling intensity

Evidence for Homo erectus eating more meat than earlier humans has been overstated and over analysed, according to researchers from George Washington University, in Washington, DC.

Analysis of ash from a massive volcanic eruption places the famed Omo I fossil 36,000 years back in time

Ryan McRae is a paleoanthropologist and doctoral student at The George Washington University whose research centers on better understanding how species, and the evolutionary relationships between them, are inferred from the fossil record. His research interests include living ape models of human evolution, comparative anatomy, and systematics. Ryan has conducted archaeological fieldwork in Israel, Italy, Romania, and Spain, and he has worked in science communication and outreach in association w...

Paleoanthropologists Briana Pobiner and Ryan McRae reveal some of the year's best findings in human origins studies

<p>"Every time I got to pull a bone out of the ground it literally felt like reaching through time. I was touching a bone that hadn’t been touched for a million and a half years — it was magical" – Briana Pobiner.</p>