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New ways of using forensic science in anthropology have been developed to advance our understanding of the past.
David Attenborough’s latest BBC documentary indulges wishful thinking over evidence.
Cancer is a deadly disease and would have been particularly lethal before the recent development of effective treatments. So why didn’t it – or our susceptibility to it – die out long ago?
Another look at a skull unearthed in Malaysian Borneo 60 years ago can shed light on the mystery of how early humans moved throughout Southeast Asia thousands of years ago.
Not all technologies are created equal. Researchers devised a new model to explain why, after eons of nothing much new, we sometimes see an explosion of innovation in the archaeological record.
The discovery of Homo naledi has been a social media sensation, recording an extraordinary number of views – more than 170,000 – for a scientific paper.
Beyond the cool factor of figuring out hominin hearing capacities two million years ago, these findings could help answer the tantalizing question of when did human vocalized language first emerge.
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Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Yale University
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Lecturer of Anthropology and Assistant Director of the Turkana Basin Institute, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
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Paleoanthropologist, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Professor of Archaeological Theory and Method, University of Liverpool
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Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University
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Associate Professor of Osteoarchaeology, Uppsala University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biology, Stanford University
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Professor of History, UMass Amherst
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Professor of Public Engagement in Science, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Cultural Palaeoecology, Liverpool John Moores University
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Professor of Natural Sciences, UCL
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Lecturer in Clinical Communication, University of Liverpool
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Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH), University of Wollongong
