The Waterside Ape on BBC Radio 4
Read Time: 1 minute Listen Again: an excellent introduction into controversial theory that humans evolved in riverside / shoreline environments.
evolution
GUEST POST from Miki Ben-Dor: “Big brains needed carbs” (???)
Read Time: 9 minutes Miki Ben-Dor from Tel Aviv University brings his expertise of paleo-anthropology to bear on the question of whether cooked starches drove human evolution.
Did cooked tubers drive human evolution?
Read Time: 12 minutes Recent claims that starchy tubers drove human brain evolution are put under the microscope. Studies of the Hadza suggest otherwise.
Seafood, Sex and Evolution (3 videos)
Read Time: 2 minutes Watch our recent public talk on the role of seafood in brain health, evolution and female sexiness. (Three videos)
Why were ancient teeth healthier than ours?
Read Time: 13 minutes Unpicking the complexities of how human oral health changed with the advent of agriculture.
Marrow Bones
Read Time: 3 minutes Cheap, delicious and nutritious. Bone marrow was a key Palaeolithic food.