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What turned an ordinary primate into a species capable of civilization, consciousness and mass violence? Evolution still has no single answer

Humans present evolutionary science with an unusual challenge. We possess characteristics rarely seen elsewhere in nature, ...

Is Anthropology a Humanities Subject? Thinking About "Humans" Through Culture, Body, and Evolution

When I introduce myself as an "anthropologist",what people imagine can vary quite a bit.Some people think of the study of culture and society,while others think of human bones, human evolution, or ...
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Anthropologist answers evolution questions

Anthropologist Agustín Fuentes joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about human evolution. Are humans still ...
Forbes

A Biologist Explains Why Humans Have Chins. Hint: Anthropologists Still Can’t Agree On The Answer

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The chin is one of our most familiar features, yet ...
Mental Floss

On the Origin of Lucy: How One Extraordinary Fossil Helped Alter Our View of Human Evolution

Donald Johanson really had no business going bone hunting that Sunday. There were letters to write and fossils to catalog—heaps of paperwork left undone while fellow paleoanthropologists were visiting ...
Case Western Reserve University

Anthropology's Cynthia Beall discusses human evolution at high altitudes

Science Alert: Cynthia Beall, Distinguished University Professor Emerita in the Department of Anthropology at the College of Arts and Sciences, said high-altitude hypoxia offers “a beautiful example” ...
insider.si.edu

The stages of human evolution human and cultural origins [by] C. Loring Brace

Interpreting human evolution -- Fact and fancy before 1860 -- Picture up to 1860 -- Hominid catastrophism -- Between world wars -- Recent discoveries -- Evolutionary principles -- Culture as an ...