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Evolution: What Makes Us Human (December 2012)
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Cover; Evolution: What Makes Us Human; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
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Lucy's Baby; Evolution: What Makes Us Human; by Kate Wong; 8 Page(s)
An ancient infant skeleton yields new insight into how humans evolved to walk upright
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First of Our Kind; Evolution: What Makes Us Human; by Kate Wong; 10 Page(s)
Sensational fossils from South Africa spark a debate over the origins of Homo
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The Naked Truth; Evolution: What Makes Us Human; by Nina G. Jablonski; 8 Page(s)
Our nearly hairless skin was a key factor in the emergence of other human traits
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What Makes Us Different?; Evolution: What Makes Us Human; by Katherine S. Pollard; 6 Page(s)
Comparisons of the genomes of humans and chimpanzees are revealing those rare stretches of DNA that are ours alone
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Cooking Up Bigger Brains; Evolution: What Makes Us Human; by Rachael Moeller Gorman; 2 Page(s)
Our hominid ancestors probably could not have eaten enough raw food to support large, calorie-hungry brains. The key to our evolution may have been the invention of the kitchen
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The Evolution of Grandparents; Evolution: What Makes Us Human; by Rachel Caspari; 6 Page(s)
The rise of senior citizens may have played a big role in the success of our species
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Four Fallacies of Pop Evolutionary Psychology; Evolution: What Makes Us Human; by David J. Buller; 8 Page(s)
Some evolutionary psychologists have trumpeted claims about how the human mind evolved that other scholars take issue with. Here is how the evidence shapes up
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When the Sea Saved Humanity; Evolution: What Makes Us Human; by Curtis W. Marean; 8 Page(s)
Shortly after Homo sapiens arose, harsh climate conditions nearly extinguished our species. Recent finds suggest that the smallpopulation that gave rise to all humans alive today survived by exploiting a unique combination of resourcesalong the southern coast of Africa
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Traces of a Distant Past; Evolution: What Makes Us Human; by Gary Stix; 8 Page(s)
DNA furnishes an ever clearer picture of the multimillennial trek from Africa all the way to the tip of South America
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The First Americans; Evolution: What Makes Us Human; by Heather Pringle; 8 Page(s)
Humans colonized the New World earlier than previously thought—a revelation that is forcing scientists to rethink long-standing ideas about these trailblazers
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Twilight of the Neandertals; Evolution: What Makes Us Human; by Kate Wong; 6 Page(s)
Paleoanthropologists know more about Neandertals than any other extinct human. But their demise remains a mystery, one that gets curiouser and curiouser
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Our Inner Neandertal; Evolution: What Makes Us Human; by Kate Wong; 2 Page(s)
Genome analysis indicates Neandertals and modern humans interbred
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Rethinking the Hobbits of Indonesia; Evolution: What Makes Us Human; by Kate Wong; 8 Page(s)
The mini human species found in Indonesia turns out to be even stranger than previously thought and complicates the story of our ancient past
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Why We Help; Evolution: What Makes Us Human; by Martin A. Nowak; 6 Page(s)
Far from being a nagging exception to the rule of evolution, cooperation has been one of its primary architects
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How We Are Evolving; Evolution: What Makes Us Human; by Jonathan K. Pritchard; 8 Page(s)
Analyses of our DNA suggest that recent human evolution has occurred more slowly than biologists would have expected
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What May Become of Homo sapiens; Evolution: What Makes Us Human; by Peter Ward; 6 Page(s)
Conditions of modern life could be driving changes in the makeup of our genes. Our bodies and our brains may not be the same as those of our descendants
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