Bonobomothers, however, seem to make a war out of seeing their sons successfully make love. They've frequently beenobservedto form coalitions with their sons to help them acquire and maintain high dominance rank, protect their sons' mating attempts from interference by other males and even interf...
That pre-processing, and the reductions in chewing effort that came with it, Zink and Lieberman said, may have opened the door to one of the most important lifestyle changes in human evolution - the emergence of hunting and gathering. "With the origin of the genus Homo...we went from ha...
"The skull has always been of great archaeological interest because it is one of the few early skeletal remains from the area," says US team leader Dr Mark Golitko of the University of Notre Dame and the Field Museum of Natural History. "It was originally thought that the skull belonged t...