What are some of the major discoveries in paleoanthropology?

Apr 21, 2017 ... Researchers who studied the bones of Homo floresiensis, a species of tiny human discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003, say their ... Jun 7, 2016 ... … strongly suggests that between 24 million and 10 million years ago – long before any direct human ancestors appeared – there were few grasses, ... Aug 24, 2021 ... David: Humans did not evolve from an aquatic ancestor. Chimpanzees, our closest living relatives, share over 98 percent of our DNA, and they don ... Mar 11, 2011 ... If neural systems evolved to develop these kinds of networks, it should be no surprise that they might be able to tackle the syntactic rules of ... Apr 9, 2025 ... Did humans evolve from apes? No. Humans are one type of several living species of great apes. Humans evolved alongside orangutans ... Apr 4, 2013 ... A video showing this species of peacock-spider, that literally, transforms into a human face waving his arms about. Aug 30, 2020 ... According to the "cultural brain hypothesis," humans evolved large brains and great intelligence in order to keep up with our complex social ... Jul 24, 2017 ... Combining these genetic hints with the differences in symbolic and cultural behaviour that are evident from the fossil record suggests language ... Jun 3, 2019 ... The bedbugs that parasitize humans [1, 8] are host generalists, so their evolution from specialist ancestors is incompatible with the “resource ... In both research and teaching, Harvard's Department of Human Evolutionary Biology focuses on a fundamental question: "How did humans evolve to be the way they ...