The Surprising Ways Inventions And Ideas Spread In Ancient Prehistory – OpEd
You can learn a lot about humanity from the first technological revolutions of more than 10,000 years ago. The human
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Author: Brenna R. Hassett
Brenna R. Hassett, PhD, is a biological anthropologist and archaeologist at the University of Central Lancashire and a scientific associate at the Natural History Museum, London. In addition to researching the effects of changing human lifestyles on the human skeleton and teeth in the past, she writes for a more general audience about evolution and archaeology, including the Times (UK) top 10 science book of 2016 Built on Bones: 15,000 Years of Urban Life and Death, and her most recent book, Growing Up Human: The Evolution of Childhood. She is also a co-founder of TrowelBlazers, an activist archive celebrating the achievements of women in the "digging" sciences.
Articles by Brenna R. Hassett :
Can Teething Predict How Fast You Will Grow? – OpEd
We know that humans live relatively long lives, and we certainly know that we spend a larger proportion of those
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What Does Play Tell Us About Human Evolution? – OpEd
Our species devotes a singular amount of time to an utterly unserious aspect of life: play. This begs the question:
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The Adaptive Value Of Teenagers: How Peer Learning Contributes To Primate Success – OpEd
Anthropological science is our species’ attempt to address our most fundamental questions about who we are and how we got
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The Evolution Of The Human Pair Bond – OpEd
Our species stands out from the animal kingdom in many ways. Some of them are obvious: we are big-brained primates
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Do Grandmothers Hold The Key To Understanding Human Evolution? – OpEd
Of the innumerable species on the planet, just a bare handful have evolved to have one of the most counterintuitive
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