The Myth of Social Tooth-Cleaning in Fossil Primates Reexamined
Dental grooves found on hominin fossils were interpreted as evidence of social care between individuals. A 2025 AJBA study shows they appea…
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From 3 million years ago to the dawn of our era: archaeological discoveries, palaeogenetics, cave art and the great transformations of human societies.
Dental grooves found on hominin fossils were interpreted as evidence of social care between individuals. A 2025 AJBA study shows they appea…
Read →A new theory published in BioEssays suggests that burns inflicted by fire use exerted selective pressure on human genes linked to wound hea…
Read →A CNRS team has succeeded in directly radiocarbon-dating Palaeolithic paintings in Font-de-Gaume cave, Dordogne. A bison has been placed at…
Read →In Burgundy, the Grande Grotte of Arcy holds France's oldest still-visible paintings, 28,000 years old. Neanderthals then Cro-Magnons succe…
Read →A First Art team, with the Max Planck Institute, has recovered ancient human DNA straight from the walls of eleven caves in Spain and Portu…
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