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Found in South Africa: Key Link in Human Evolution?
Evolution skeptics like to trot out the argument that if Darwin had been right, scientists would have discovered transitional fossils by now — creatures with a...
Darwin Lives! Modern Humans Are Still Evolving
Modern Homo sapiens is still evolving. Despite the long-held view that natural selection has ceased to affect humans because almost everybody now lives long...
Q&A: 'Lucy' Discoverer Donald C. Johanson
Paleoanthropologist Donald C. Johanson is the man who found the woman that shook up our family tree. In 1974, Johanson discovered a 3.2 million-year-old fossil...
The Hobbit Wars Heat Up
The inhabitants of the Indonesian island of Flores used to tell stories of a separate race of little people called the ebu gogo, 3-ft.-tall, hairy human-like...
Bones of Contention
"In those days we ate our meat raw, like animals." The speaker is Viktor Jurubu, an Indonesian farmer in his 60s, who, in his T shirt and sarong, looks little...
Anthropologists: THE LEAKEY FAMILY
Louis Leakey's enthusiasm for Africa and the search for earliest man were infectious. Speaking before a packed lecture hall in his staccato-like voice,...
Up From The Apes
Despite the protests of creationists and their intellectual allies, and such efforts as the Kansas school board's vote last week to expunge evolution from the...
The Real Truth About The Female Body
It's always been classier, and a lot more dignified, to be a woman than a female. Thanks to 30 years of feminist striving, the category "woman" has expanded to...
Where Anthropology Meets Psychology
At mid-century, anthropology textbooks painted a simple picture of the plight of our ancestors on the African savanna: them against the world. Lions menaced and...
Archaeology: A New Key to the Family Tree
The bones unearthed at Teotihuacan are plenty ancient, but there's old and then there's old--and a find announced by South African scientists last week makes...
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The Mosaic of Human Origins
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Darwin in Space: How Multigenerational Missions Could Shape Human Evolution
Welcome to the Scientific American podcast Science Talk, posted on December18th, 2012. I'm Steve Mirsky. On this episode: [ More ] ...
The Most Fascinating Human Evolution Discoveries of 2012
Image: Kate Wong'' ] [/caption ] Recent years have brought considerable riches for those of us interested in human evolution and 2012 proved no exception. New fossils,...
Studying Recent Human Evolution at the Genetic Level
The discovery explains a crucial juncture in the evolution of East Asians, and the method used can also be applied to some 400 other sites on the human genome. ...
