Switching from foraging to farming would not have been an obvious choice for our ancestors. But they seem to have done it nonetheless.
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These massacres entail killing on a relative scale seen today only in the most war-torn countries.
The change of lifestyle from 10,000 years ago had a dramatic impact on the male divefrsity revealed in DNA.
For hundreds of thousands of years humans lived in hunter-gatherer societies, eating wild plants and animals. Inequality in these groups is thought to have been very low, with evidence suggesting food…
The Neolithic Revolution introduced a whole range of new foods and proteins into the human digestive tract. But this phenomenal change created the perfect conditions for the rise of coeliac disease. While…
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Laboratory Head, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
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Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Archaeology, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Post-doctoral Researcher, Université de Lausanne
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Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Griffith University
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Lecturer in Scientific and Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Oxford
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