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Australopithecus africanus Had Similar Dental Issues As Us

March 3, 2018

Ian Towle of John Moores University and colleagues published an interesting paper in the International Journal of Paleopathology that illuminates …

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The Cardiac Health of the Tsimane

April 11, 2017

A lot of discussion is constantly had about what is the healthiest diet; low fat or low carb. An interesting …

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The Effect of Diet Changes and The Selection of European Fatty Acid Desaturases

March 17, 2017

UC Berkeley Integrative Biologist, Rasmus Nielsen and his colleagues, published a fascinating study in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution looking at …

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Agriculture Reduced The Periodicity & Amplitude Of Nutritional Stress

October 16, 2008

Razib has responded to my disagreement with his statement that any given hunter-gatherer infant is far more likely to reach …

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Why Do Women Have More Cavities?

October 15, 2008

Razib has chimed in on the latest piece of research to come from John Lukacs, “Fertility and Agriculture Accentuate Sex …

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Zooarchaeological Analysis Of Animal Remains From Vanguard & Gorham’s Caves In Gibraltar

September 23, 2008

Zooarchaeology is an anthropological sub-discipline which focuses on studying animal remains from archaeological sites. Animal remains can tell us a …

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Advent Of Cooking & The Big Cognitive Leap In Human Evolution

August 12, 2008

In the open access paper, “Metabolic changes in schizophrenia and human brain evolution,” Phillipp Khaitovich and team have compared the …

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According to Yoel Rak, Neandertals were ‘big mouth Bass’ variants of humans

May 5, 2008

A summary of Yoel Rak’s talk at the last month meeting of the Paleoanthropology Society in Vancouver, Canada has surfaced …

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Shanidar III – A Neandertal who ate his veggies… Or at least chewed them

April 28, 2008

Last month’s annual meeting of the Paleoanthropology Society hosted a talk by Amanda Henry, a graduate student at George Washington …

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How chimpanzee and human diets affect gene expression

January 30, 2008

Even though I read the classic 1975 Science paper by Mary-Claire King and Allan Wilson, where they demonstrated through comparative …

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