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Our tree-climbing ancestors evolved our abilities to throw far and reach high
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 9 months agoDartmouth researchers report that apes and early humans evolved more flexible shoulders and elbows...
Hunter-gatherer diets weren’t always heavy on meat: Morocco study reveals a plant-based diet
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 day agoAbout 11,000 years ago, humans made a major shift from hunting and gathering to farming. This...
The real Paleo diet was heavy on plants with very little meat, according to a study of early human...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 5 months agoAn actor re-enacts a pre-agriculture man holding up a meaty bone.gorodenkoff/iStock / Getty Images...
Early riser? You could have Neanderthal DNA
The Independent via Yahoo News· 6 months agoPeople who go to bed early and wake up early are likely to share the same DNA as Neanderthals and another extinct relative, research suggests. The...
Paleo diet? Study reveals new insight on what Stone Age humans really ate
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Zambia find shows humans have built with wood for 476,000 years
Reuters via Yahoo News· 9 months agoAlong the banks of the Kalambo River in Zambia near Africa's second-highest waterfall,...
Viewpoint: Don't give up in the face of global warming's advance
South Bend Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWhat once was late winter has become a way too early spring. In our own urban backyard we have...
Our love of soft, sweet foods goes back even further than we imagined
Salon via Yahoo News· 4 months agoChocolate and vanilla ice cream cake Getty Images/Blake Callahan This morning, as I sliced a ripe...
‘Man, the hunter’? Archaeologists’ assumptions about gender roles in past humans ignore an icky but...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoIf hunter-gatherers went beyond nose-to-tail eating to include the undigested plant matter in a prey...
When a Jurassic giant died, predatory dinos probably feasted on the carcass
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 7 months agoPhotograph of the skeletal mount of an Allosaurus specimen (AMNH 5753), from William Diller...