We’ve Misunderstood Human Nature for 100 Years
One day in the summer of 1924, an anthropologist named Raymond Dart made an incredible discovery — and drew a conclusion from ...
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Humans evolved for distance running – but ancestor ‘Lucy’ didn’t go far or fast
D models of Australopithecus afarensis suggest the muscular adaptations that made modern humans better runners.
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'Large Head People': Mysterious New Form of Ancient Human Emerges
A "provocative" new piece in Nature has proposed a whole new group of ancient humans – cousins of the Denisovans and Neanderthals – that once lived alongside Homo sapiens in eastern Asia more than 100 ...
Not too big, not too small: Why modern humans are the ideal size for speed
The findings are published in the journal Nature Communications ... to sacrifice some speed for their small size. The average ...
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Human impact on nature 'dates back millions of years'
Early human ancestors could have stolen food from other animals The impact of humans on nature has been far greater ... at extinction rates of large and small carnivores and how this correlated ...