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• Our Ancestors Were Small: A Review of Hominin Body Size

  

  Over the course of human evolution our bodies changed a lot. We began walking upright, we grew big brains and even got a bit chubby. New research into hominin... Read more

  The 30 June 2015 by   Reprieve
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• Did Palaeolithic People Domesticate Horses?

  

  The domestication of plants and animals was the most important moment in our history. It allowed us to settle down and begin building cities and civilisation.... Read more

  The 05 June 2015 by   Reprieve
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• Cannabalistic Neanderthals Hunted Humans?

  

  Homo sapiens evolved in Africa, but we soon spread around the world. In Eurasia we encountered our close relatives, the Neanderthals. However, this family... Read more

  The 22 June 2015 by   Reprieve
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• Ken Ham's Solution to Accomodationism and Secular Humanism

  

  Ken Ham (founder and president of Answers in Genesis, the Creation Museum, wannabe arc builder) is a Young Earth creationist, and he prides himself in taking... Read more

  The 06 June 2015 by   Bjornostman
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• How Old Could the Oldest Stone Tools Be?

  

  Creating stone tools was a key leap forward for our ancestors. It was so significant that scientists once thought it heralded the arrival of modern(ish) humans.... Read more

  The 23 June 2015 by   Reprieve
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• Lucy Has No Backbone – Reassesing Lucy’s Vertebrae

  

  Lucy (more commonly called AL 288-1 by the public) is one of the most important skeletons of our ancestors ever found. This is because it's a very complete... Read more

  The 18 June 2015 by   Reprieve
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• Honey Could Help Us Live Longer, Did We Evolve to Need It?

  

  Human evolution hasn't always moved in a positive direction for us. Mutations broke our ability to make vitamin C, forcing us to get it from fruit. Our shift... Read more

  The 16 June 2015 by   Reprieve
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• Can Chimpanzees Cook?

  

  Cooking food was a big leap in our evolution. It helps break down the food before we eat it, making it a lot easier for us to extract nutrients from it. In turn... Read more

  The 28 June 2015 by   Reprieve
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• Little Foot Fossil Redated; Lucy Gets a New Friend

  

  Little Foot is one of the most important, yet enigmatic, fossils out there. It is clearly an Australopithecus - one of our early, more ape like relatives -... Read more

  The 04 June 2015 by   Reprieve
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• Humans Evolved to Be Fat (and Weak)

  

  The human family split from chimps ~7 million years ago. Since then many differences have evolved between us. We began walking upright. Our brains got bigger.... Read more

  The 25 June 2015 by   Reprieve
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