ancestors
Fossils of bone-crushing and meat-slashing Tasmanian tiger ancestors discovered in Australia
Scientists have identified a “bone-crushing” ancestor of the Tasmanian tiger. The bone crusher — along with two other newfound Tasmanian…
Read More »Next time you beat a virus, thank your microbial ancestors
When you get infected with a virus, some of the first weapons your body deploys to fight it were passed…
Read More »Hobbit hominins from Indonesia may have had even smaller ancestors
A humerus fragment excavated at Mata Menge in Flores, Indonesia Yousuke Kaifu Hominins living on an Indonesian island 700,000 years…
Read More »What is a human? Why the split from our ancestors is so hard to define
Is it in the way we live, laugh and love? Or maybe it is our dislike of cheesy clichés? Deep…
Read More »‘Top Chef’ Kevin Gillespie’s Scottish Restaurant Would Make His Ancestors Proud
Kevin Gillespie and the Restaurant of a Lifetime Welcome to Season 2, Episode 10 of Tinfoil Swans, a podcast from…
Read More »When did human ancestors start walking on two legs?
Cast of the Sahelanthropus tchadensis skull Didier Descouens CC BY-SA 4.0 This is an extract from Our Human Story, our…
Read More »‘We’ve always been omnivores’: Why ‘meatfluencers’ are wrong about what our ancestors ate
Paul Saladino is stripped to the waist, biceps bulging as he works a butcher’s saw back and forth across a…
Read More »Treasures of our ancestors: A review of New Each Day
Sefer Tehillim, the book of Psalms in the Hebrew Bible, is a natural place to begin a spiritual practice. Its…
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