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Stone tools in El Aliya Cave in Morocco provide evidence that ancient hunter-gatherers in North Africa had flexible subsistence strategies.

Why do rates of diabetes surge when traditional societies urbanize? The answer may lie in a concept called the “evolutionary mismatch hypothesis.”
Vanderbilt University PhD candidate Audrey Arner is investigating this phenomenon with support from The Leakey Foundation.

Researchers in China find the first complete example of stone tool technology previously seen only in Europe and the Middle East.

Do microbes matter for making babies? Emerging research suggests that the hidden world of microorganisms may play a crucial role in animal reproduction.

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric human relative walked upright and was tiny and vulnerable to predators.

Researchers discover the earliest human remains ever found in Western Europe, from a species previously unknown in this region, dating from 1.2-1.4 million years ago.

Researchers at Atapuerca have found the oldest-known human fossils in Western Europe.

Salmah Jombela is one of the few people in the world who has successfully habituated a community of wild chimpanzees. She studies chimps in Kibale National Park in Uganda.

Sharifah Namaganda is a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan who studies how chimpanzees move in the trees. Learn more about her work!

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