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Book Excerpt from The Waterside Ape
In Chapter 11, “Surfer’s Ear,” author Peter Rhys-Evans describes a key piece of evidence he says supports his hypothesis of a brief period of semi-aquatic living in early hominins.
Book Excerpt from The Waterside Ape
Book Excerpt from The Waterside Ape

In Chapter 11, “Surfer’s Ear,” author Peter Rhys-Evans describes a key piece of evidence he says supports his hypothesis of a brief period of semi-aquatic living in early hominins.

In Chapter 11, “Surfer’s Ear,” author Peter Rhys-Evans describes a key piece of evidence he says supports his hypothesis of a brief period of semi-aquatic living in early hominins.

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Did Human Evolution Include a Semi-Aquatic Phase?
Peter Rhys-Evans | Apr 1, 2020 | 3 min read
A recent book outlines fossil evidence supporting the controversial hypothesis.
Oldest Known Paintings Created by Neanderthals, Not Modern Humans
Catherine Offord | Feb 25, 2018 | 2 min read
The animal pictures and hand stencils were made in caves in Spain thousands of years before Homo sapiens arrived in Europe.
Study: Farming Arose Twice in the Ancient Middle East
Bob Grant | Jun 21, 2016 | 1 min read
Ancient DNA research suggests that there were two independent agricultural revolutions more than 10,000 years ago.
Start Making Sense
J.D. Trout | Jun 1, 2016 | 3 min read
Scientific progress is only achieved when humans' innate sense of understanding is validated by objective reality.
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The Psychology of Overeating, The Hidden Half of Nature, The Death of Cancer, and The Secret of Our Success
Reimagining Humanity
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As the science of paleoanthropology developed, human evolutionary trees changed as much as the minds that constructed them.
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Bob Grant | Jun 1, 2015 | 3 min read
How to Clone a Mammoth, The Upright Thinkers, The Thirteenth Step, and Humankind
Book Excerpt from The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack
Ian Tattersall | May 31, 2015 | 3 min read
In the prologue, “Lemurs and the Delights of Fieldwork,” author Ian Tattersall shares the paleoanthropological lessons he learned from studying non-human primates in Madagascar.
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Book Excerpt from Women After All
Melvin Konner | Feb 1, 2015 | 5 min read
In the introduction to his latest book, author Melvin Konner explains why he considers maleness a departure from normal physiology.
Capsule Reviews
Bob Grant | Feb 1, 2015 | 3 min read
Touch, The Altruistic Brain, Is Shame Necessary?, and Future Arctic
It’s Over, Man
Melvin Konner | Feb 1, 2015 | 3 min read
The era of human male domination is ending. Will modern culture welcome the dawn of a new gender equality?
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Bob Grant | Jan 1, 2015 | 3 min read
Does Altruism Exist?, Ancestors in Our Genome, Fred Sanger—Double Nobel Laureate, and Stiffs, Skulls & Skeletons
Speaking of Science
The Scientist | Nov 1, 2013 | 2 min read
November 2013's selection of notable quotes
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Book Excerpt from Evolution and Medicine
Robert Perlman | Sep 30, 2013 | 4 min read
In Chapter 11, “Man-made diseases,” author Robert Perlman describes how socioeconomic health disparities arise in hierarchical societies.
Sex and the Primordial Ooze
John Long | Jan 1, 2013 | 3 min read
The rise of copulation as a vertebrate reproductive strategy may have driven crucial evolutionary change and explosive species radiation.
Book Excerpt from The Dawn of the Deed
John Long | Dec 31, 2012 | 3 min read
In the final chapter of his book on the origins of vertebrate sex, author and paleontologist John Long pays homage to the humble placoderm, which got the erotic ball rolling.
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