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Everyday life and its variability influenced human evolution at least as much as rare activities like big-game hunting

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Cara Wall-Scheffler, University of Washington (THE CONVERSATION) Think about taking a ...

Morocco: ancient fossils shed light on a key period in human evolution

Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...
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Fossils unearthed in Morocco are first from little-understood period of human evolution

Fossils unearthed in Morocco from a little-understood period of human evolution may help scientists resolve a long-standing mystery: Who came before us? Three jawbones, including one from a child, ...
Phys.org

Culture is overtaking genetics in shaping human evolution, researchers argue

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift—driven not by genes, but by culture. "Human evolution seems to be changing ...
The Conversation

Fun with fossils: South African kids learn a whole lot more about human evolution from museum workshops

Shaw Badenhorst works for the University of the Witwatersrand. He receives funding from GENUS, the National Research Foundation and the Palaeontological Scientific Trust. South Africa has one of the ...
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Everyday life and its variability influenced human evolution at least as much as rare activities like big-game hunting

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Collecting water and caring for kids are daily necessities. Three Lions/Hulton Archive via Getty Images Think about taking a walk: ...