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The Olduvai effect: New questions about meat-eating in human origins
Meta-analysis of butchered animal bones from East African sites shows that long-held assumptions about early hunters may be wrong.
Jun 7 • 
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The Olduvai effect: New questions about meat-eating in human origins
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How do hominin fossils get their numbers?
Numbers for fossils, like AL 288-1, are nowhere near as iconic as names like “Lucy”, but have an important place in the study of paleoanthropology.
Apr 21 • 
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How do hominin fossils get their numbers?
The circumstances of the Taung discovery
The textbook story of the fossil leaves out a wider context in which scientists interpreted the first evidence of Australopithecus.
Feb 14 • 
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The circumstances of the Taung discovery
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