Human evolution
Is the non-dominant hand vital to the evolution of the thumb?
Language study PR namedrops Darwin; sure to get taken seriously now
Were people happier in the Stone Age?
Stonehenge was much greater than we realized?
Human evolution just does not feel school textbook-ready at this point
Just use more of your brain and you’ll evolve? Says movie.
Neanderthal symbols found in Gibraltar cave
Evo psych: Don’t you feel you understand human altruism so much better now?
Stone-tipped spears 500 kya indicate increase in human cognitive and social skills?
Rainforest life accounts for “evolution” of short stature in pygmies—twice?
Neanderthal story sent back to rewrite?
Have human brains shrunk, and does it matter?
From Phys.org: A new replica of an early modern human brain has provided further evidence for the theory that the human brain has been shrinking. The skull belonged to an elderly Cro Magnon man, whose skeleton is called Cro Magnon 1. The entire skeleton was discovered in 1868 in the Cro Magnon cave in Dordogne, France, and has since become one of the most famous Upper Palaeolithic skeletons. Using new technology, researchers have produced a replica of the 28,000-year-old brain and found that it is about 15-20% larger than our brains. Actually, it doesn’t matter much because intellectual capacity is mostly governed by the wiring: The finding doesn’t suggest that humans today are less intelligent than earlier humans. Although previous Read More ›