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An international team of researchers led by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, working with 15 collaborators around the world, has conducted the most ...

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Sometimes in nature, only the friendliest survive, according to Brian Hare, a professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke University and the director of the Duke Canine Cognition Center. The UA ...

This meeting will shed light on the latest innovations in the field of Human Evolutionary Genomics which has broad implications across diverse fields including Anthropology, Evolutionary Biology, ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025. Analysis of DNA extracted from the fossil electrified the ...

Sonora native Debi Bolter shared the latest discoveries from what’s considered to be one of the world’s most important fossil ...

Science Alert: Cynthia Beall, Distinguished University Professor Emerita in the Department of Anthropology at the College of Arts and Sciences, said high-altitude hypoxia offers “a beautiful example” ...