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Tag: Daniel Lieberman
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Nation & World
Barefoot running easier on feet than running shoes
New Harvard research casts doubt on the old adage, “All you need to run is a pair of shoes.”
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Nation & World
Culture skews human evolution
The rise of agriculture 10,000 years ago meant the end of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle for which human beings had been optimized by millions of years of evolution and the beginning of an era where culture encourages habits unhealthy for us and for the world around, with uncertain evolutionary outcomes.
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Nation & World
Is 7-million-year-old skull really human?
Who or what was Toumai? Those who found his skull in 2001 insist he is the oldest human ancestor, a small fellow who lived by an African lake some 7…
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Nation & World
Human skull is 7 million years old
When a 7-million-year-old skull was first found, Daniel Lieberman, a professor of anthropology at Harvard, called it “one of the greatest discoveries of the past 100 years.” After studying new…