Study about New Guineans warriors bone daggers
Prof. Nathaniel J. Dominy's study, published today in the Journal Royal Society Open Science, has been featured in the Washington Post, Live Science, and Science.
[more]Prof. Nathaniel J. Dominy's study, published today in the Journal Royal Society Open Science, has been featured in the Washington Post, Live Science, and Science.
[more]Results of this paper suggest that hunter-gatherer residential mobility is constrained in a predictable fashion by rates of local resource depletion.
[more]"Our ape ancestors started eating fermented fruits on the forest floor, and that made all the difference. We're preadapted for consuming alcohol."
[more]This paper presents a formal treatment of Frankenstein's reasoning and show that his rationale for denying a mate to his male creation has empirical justification. Our results suggest that the decision was prudent because it averted our own extinction by competitive exclusion.
[more]Professor Dominy, an evolutionary biologist at Dartmouth College, was quoted in The New York Times science article "A 3.2-Million-Year-Old Mystery: Did Lucy Fall From a Tree?".
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