And while Lameira’s conclusion also offers far more utilitarian beginnings than today’s sign of love, he theorizes kissing ...

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On November 24, 1974, Johanson was out prospecting for fossils of human ancestors with his graduate student Tom Gray, eyes trained on the ground, when he spotted a piece of elbow with humanlike ...

One species adapts and survives. Another doesn't and dies off. A new study in Nature Ecology & Evolution posits that human ancestors might be an exception. Conventional wisdom in evolutionary ...

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Stable isotope analysis of zooarchaeological remains and pottery in a palaeo-environmental framework reveals that early Central European farmers utilized diverse regional pasturing strategies for ...

"Capuchin monkeys stick their fingers in their friends' eyes as sign of affection, why have humans developed kissing?" researcher Adriano R. Lameira said.

LSU anthropology professor attended a conference in Croatia, where she was invited to present her research on human ancestors ...