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A study of skull growth and tooth emergence reveals that timing is everything

Paleoanthropologists have wondered for a long time how and why humans evolved molars that emerge at these specific ages and why those ages are so delayed compared to living apes. New research solves this mystery.

Archaeologists find the oldest-known shell beads

10.06.21 Journal Article

Shell beads found in a cave in Morocco are at least 142,000 years old. The archaeologists who found them say they're the earliest-known evidence of a widespread form of human communication.

Grantee Spotlight: Patrick Gathogo

10.06.21 Grantee Spotlight

Dr. Patrick Gathogo is a geologist and research associate at Stony Brook University who is developing a new approach to geochronology that will extend the capability of the standard methods for dating hominid sites.

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A study of skull growth and tooth emergence reveals that timing is everything

Archaeologists find the oldest-known shell beads

Grantee Spotlight: Patrick Gathogo