Permafrost holds an extraordinary molecular record of ancient life — and we are only now learning to read it, just as warming begins to erase it.
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Contrary to the idea that apes evolved their upright posture to reach for fruit in the forest canopy, the earliest known ape with this stature, Morotopithecus, lived in more open grassy environments.
Combining evidence from archaeology, geochronology and paleoenvironmental science, researchers identified how ancient humans by Lake Malawi were the first to substantially modify their environment.
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Professor of Anthropology, University of Minnesota
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Professor of Anthropology and Biochemistry and the Micheal G. DeGroote Chair in Genetic Anthropology, McMaster University
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Professor, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Paleogenetics, Stockholm University
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Scientist, Ancient DNA Lab (Biodiversity Genomics division) at the Hakai Institute and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Anthropology, McMaster University
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