Grantee Spotlight: Tessa Cicak
Tessa Cicak is a PhD candidate studying whose research is testing ideas about how primates respond to competition over food resources.
What our skeletons say about the sex binary
Society increasingly accepts gender identity as existing along a spectrum. The study of people, and their remains, shows that sex should be viewed the same way.
I was part of the team that found the Homo naledi child’s skull: how we did it
An international team of researchers, led by Professor Lee Berger, a palaeoanthropologist from South Africa’s University of the Witwatersrand, has revealed the first partial skull of a Homo naledi child from the Rising Star cave.
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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.