Anthropology.net

AUGUST 19, 2024

Cooking is often viewed as a significant turning point in human evolution. It not only provided the extra calories needed to support larger brains 1 but also transformed the way early humans interacted with their environment. Unlike other species, humans are biologically adapted to consume cooked food.

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Sapiens

APRIL 16, 2024

I am an archaeologist, a scientist who uses the remains of objects, structures, and other traces of human activity to reconstruct how past peoples lived. K–12 schools in the U.S. accepted evolution , agreeing with the statement, “Human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: In recent years, division over how social studies should be taught has plagued school districts around the country.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Purvis Thompson poses for a portrait at the Brooklyn Public Library after taking an anthropology class offered by Bard College on October 16, 2018. Inside the grand, art deco-influenced building, students study rhetoric and sociology, Antigone and anthropology. One of the first to apply to the new program was a library security guard.

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 14, 2024

DNA from 64 remains in the chamber identifies the bodies as males, challenging an earlier idea that females sacrificed in fertility rites were interred there, archaeogeneticist Rodrigo Barquera and colleagues report on June 12 in Nature 1. Nägele, K., 1 Barquera, R., Del Castillo-Chávez, O., Pérez-Ramallo, P.,

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The evolution of the human brain is one of the most remarkable chapters in our species' history. With its unparalleled size and complexity, the human brain consumes a disproportionate amount of energy relative to the rest of the body. Squirrel monkeys ( Saimiri sciureus ), another large-brain species.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Human teeth are small marvels of biology, carrying genetic signatures that reflect millennia of evolutionary change. Dr. Kaustubh Adhikari, a UCL researcher and one of the study’s authors, emphasizes the significance of teeth in understanding humanity's past.

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