Sex and gender in paleoanthropology / Lori D. Hager -- Good science, bad science, or science as usual? Feminist critiques of science / Alison Wylie -- Is primatology a feminist science? / Linda Marie ...
What if menopause wasn’t the end of fertility but the beginning of a more critical role for women? According to historian and professor Roy Casagranda, evolution didn’t just allow women to live longer ...
Recent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift—driven not by genes, but by culture. "Human evolution seems to be changing ...
In 1758, Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus gave humans a scientific name: Homo sapiens, which means "wise human" in Latin. Although Linnaeus grouped humans with other apes, it was English biologist ...
Shaw Badenhorst works for the University of the Witwatersrand. He receives funding from GENUS, the National Research Foundation and the Palaeontological Scientific Trust. South Africa has one of the ...