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• Neanderthals Invented Specialised Bone Tools

  

  Around 800,000 years ago the human family split in two. One branch left our African homeland, travelling north into Europe whilst the other remained behind. Read more

  The 20 August 2013 by   Reprieve
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• The Evolution of Cave Art

  

  Modern humans migrated into Europe around 40,000 years ago. Almost immediately they began decorating cave walls and continued to do so for the next 30,000... Read more

  The 01 August 2013 by   Reprieve
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• Paternity Uncertainty, Infanticide and the Evolution of Monogamy

  

  Humans do many things that seem to make no sense, evolutionary speaking. Things like altruism, monogomy and infanticide. If we really did evolve to survive and... Read more

  The 15 August 2013 by   Reprieve
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• Chimps Are Less Susceptible to Peer Pressure Than Humans

  

  Human success stems from our social groups. By working together we can achieve more than we ever could hope to individually. In fact, the benefits of group... Read more

  The 06 August 2013 by   Reprieve
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• The Kumari Model: Did Humans Evolve in the Indian Ocean?

  

  Over the past few decades scientists have amassed a huge amount of evidence showing that humans evolved in Africa before migrating out into the rest of the... Read more

  The 05 August 2013 by   Reprieve
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• Get to the Chopper!

  

  Yesterday the search for the collared hyaenas soared to new heights!Last month a landowner I met during my PhD interviews offered to help Noeks and I look for... Read more

  The 04 August 2013 by   Iratemonkey
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• I Ain’t Gettin on No Plane! Oh Go on Then…

  

  As you may be aware, some of our collared hyenas and leopards are being rather rude and giving us the slip. We need to download data from their collars, and to... Read more

  The 10 August 2013 by   Iratemonkey
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• The “human Cow” Ate More Than Grass

  

  Paranthropines are a weird offshot of humanityParanthropus is a strange off-shoot of humanity that split from our lineage 3 – 4 million years ago. Read more

  The 29 August 2013 by   Reprieve
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• Babooning

  

  tyler Carver joined the Primate and Predator Project in June as a volunteer Research Assistant. He has been pivotal in developing a new stage in our research... Read more

  The 28 August 2013 by   Iratemonkey
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• Did Language Evolve to Help Us Gossip?

  

  Language provides us with many benefits. It makes it easier for us to teach each other skills and facts, allows us to share knowledge of who is to be trusted,... Read more

  The 22 August 2013 by   Reprieve
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