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Using a fork and knife to make that Christmas dinner feast more bite-sized? News flash: chimps use tools to cut big fruit http://ow.ly/PB1X about 11 hours ago from HootSuite
And now a little on human diet: possible evidence from Mozambique for earliest grain (sorghum) eating 105,000 years ago http://ow.ly/OBLa 8:12 AM Dec 22nd from HootSuite
More on apes and diet: ape tooth shape designed to handle the most stressful times when food is scarce http://ow.ly/OBDx 8:08 AM Dec 22nd from HootSuite
@whtgetsonmyt__s Thanks for the heads up - interesting! 7:31 AM Dec 22nd from HootSuite in reply to whtgetsonmyt__s
Are humans' long life spans, compared with apes, linked to meat-eating? http://ow.ly/OARx 7:31 AM Dec 22nd from HootSuite
@geolarson2 Thanks! 8:39 AM Dec 18th from HootSuite in reply to geolarson2
RT @climate__change: How can we start to understand the role of climate variability on Pleistocene human evolution? http://bit.ly/8wsYxw 7:48 AM Dec 18th from HootSuite
Friday Fun Fact: The prominent whites of human eyes are unique. Why? Did they evolve for communcation and cooperation? http://ow.ly/Nop8 7:43 AM Dec 18th from HootSuite
RT @NatGeoChannel: Paleolithic man is thought to have observed the moon & sun to plan for hunting, gathering, & migrations http://ow.ly/Na34 3:10 PM Dec 17th from HootSuite
RT @sciencenewsorg: Stone Age campers set up separate activity areas, had advanced organizational thinking ~800,000 ya http://bit.ly/6EgEjw 3:09 PM Dec 17th from HootSuite
RT @geolarson2: RT @Discovery_News: World's rarest gorilla captured on video. http://ow.ly/N3Ow 2:06 PM Dec 17th from HootSuite
RT @science: Ardi fossil find named 2009's breakthrough of the year by AAAS journal Science http://bit.ly/61cDPR 2:04 PM Dec 17th from HootSuite
Savanna chimps can understand and predict the movements of wildfires; they even do "fire dances"! http://ow.ly/N77x 10:41 AM Dec 17th from HootSuite
@ bprosperi @legendinmymind Many people don't know about tool use in other animals, so we think it's great to have it in the news. 10:04 AM Dec 16th from HootSuite
Thought tool use was unique to humans? Think again. Even an octopus can do it! http://ow.ly/MI0b 8:11 AM Dec 16th from HootSuite
It's not too late to become a volunteer in the upcoming Hall of Human Origins! Two interview dates left: 12/17 & 12/30. http://ow.ly/M48C 6:25 AM Dec 15th from HootSuite
@zippyg2 We even chose "F" in honor of Friday! 1:02 PM Dec 11th from HootSuite in reply to zippyg2
Friday Fun Fact: The famous Laetoli fossil footprints: found from a friendly feces-flinging fest. Say that 3x fast! http://ow.ly/L3fr 11:01 AM Dec 11th from HootSuite
Human evolution kicks into high gear - positive selection rates 100x higher in past 5,000 years than ever before http://ow.ly/KANM 5:48 AM Dec 10th from HootSuite
Scientists suggest that being rude may be a defense to disease (@SmithsonianMag). Be nice to strangers anyways. http://ow.ly/JYu4 1:11 PM Dec 8th from HootSuite

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Bio The Human Origins Program at the Smithsonian is dedicated to understanding the scientific evidence for how the traits that make us human evolved.

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