Palm oil is one of the 21st century’s most contentious agricultural commodities, but its relationship with humans goes back thousands of years.
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A shift in climate, along with other environmental disruptions and the invasion of competitors and new predators all likely played an important role in reshaping ancient elephants’ brains.
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From meat-based diets to carbohydrates, the eating patterns of early humans has defined much of what we consume today.
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Assistant Professor, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
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Professor/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
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Senior Researcher in Vertebrate Palaeontology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Political Science and Chair of the South African Research Initiative in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University
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Emeritus Research Professor of African Ecology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor and Head of the Chemistry Divison, Ain Shams University
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Professor, Weber State University
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Professor of Sociology and Global and Africana Studies, University of Tennessee
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Chief Research Scientist and Director, Centre for Microbiology Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute
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Professor of Comparative and Evolutionary Neurobiology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Historical climate and weather, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Associate professor, University of the Western Cape
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Associate Professor, Colgate University
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