Early humans called Denisovans lived in a remote mountain cave between 100,000 and 60,000 years ago, and possibly longer still, raising intriguing questions about their relationship to modern humans.
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Genetic studies show mingling between populations has been the norm throughout human history.
Recognizing the influence of evolution on behavior and gender norms suggests ways to reduce gender inequality in leadership in the real world.
A bereavement counsellor on grief, loss and longing.
Female piglets with more play fighting experience did better in adult contests – but for males the opposite was true.
The arrangement of bones in our specimen’s fins are the same as those of ‘fingers’ in tetrapods. The only difference is the digits are locked within the fin, and not free moving.
When it comes to love, science has not yet got it right. And there’s a wonderful reason why.
Capuchin monkeys in Brazil use big stones to crush the shells of nuts they want to eat. An experiment in the field investigated how these monkeys prepare to use new, unfamiliar tools.
A thought experiment from Richard Dawkins’ book The Selfish Gene turned out to be a more realistic explanation for altruism than he expected.
If you go by editorial cartoons and T-shirts, you might have the impression that evolution proceeds as an orderly march toward a preordained finish line. But that’s not right at all.
The mating habits of these tiny, colorful fish may be revealing something broader about the animal kingdom, and perhaps even our own desires.
Hidden forces are always at work in the world, and people always want to control them, a cognitive anthropologist explains. Enter the human universal of shamanism.
Australians report having sex once or twice a week, on average, but there are many variables. And that’s assuming people’s estimates are accurate.
Why are humans the only animals with chins?
Natural selection isn’t the only factor deciding human evolution.
When they cause problems, wisdom teeth don’t seem very smart. But they may have been evolution’s answer to a coarse diet.
Most animal groups adopted their shapes quickly but some kept evolving.
An evolutionary biologist visits the remote jungle mountaintop where a little-known naturalist wrote his insightful paper about the mechanisms of evolution that spurred on a rivalrous Charles Darwin.
Rivers are natural boundaries for evolving populations. But scientists don’t agree whether they create new species or just help maintain them. Research using birds’ molecular clocks provides some answers.
What drives the emergence and disappearance of species? By modeling the fundamental processes of evolution and ecology on geographical scales, new research spotlights topography and climatic shifts.
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Honorary Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney
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Strategic Professor in Palaeontology, Flinders University
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Mark Elgar é um amigo do The Conversation.
Professor of Evolutionary Biology, The University of Melbourne
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Postdoctoral Researcher , The University of Melbourne
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PhD Researcher, Nature and Function of Human Nonverbal Vocalisations, University of Sussex
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Adjunct Research Associate, Monash University
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Associate Professor, The University of Queensland
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Jenny Graves é um amigo do The Conversation.
Distinguished Professor of Genetics and Vice Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University
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Senior Lecturer, Centre for Behaviour and Evolution, Newcastle University
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Lecturer, Macquarie University
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Sexual health researcher, The University of Melbourne
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Research fellow, University of Sydney
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Postdoctoral Researcher of Evolutionary Biology, University of Pennsylvania
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Senior lecturer, School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, University of Bristol
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Research Associate Professor in Evolutionary Biology, The University of Western Australia
