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","body":"To understand why humans are social, why we make social connections and live with others, Arizona State University primatologist Joan Silk examines other mammal relationships and the role of evolution in her new essay.\u201cHumans are wired for social connections because these connections have helped us\u2026","post_date":"\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222025-04-21T10:55:06-07:00\u0022\u003E04\/21\/2025-10:55am\u003C\/time\u003E\n","clas_teaser":"","teaser":"To understand why humans are social, why we make social connections and live with others, Arizona State University primatologist Joan Silk examines other mammal relationships and the r","story_images":"","hero_image":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/block_image_16_9_lge\/public\/2025-04\/20200114%20Regents%20Prof%20Joan%20Silk%20030.jpg?itok=oD1xHSRZ","path":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/b\/20250421-why-are-humans-social-creatures","hide_byline":"0","contributor-contact-information-affiliation":"School of Human Evolution and Social Change","contributor-contact-information-name":"Nicole Pomerantz","contributor-contact-information-e-mail":"{{ mail }}","contributor-contact-information-phone_number":"480-965-0610","contributor-contact-information-campus":"","feed_image_link":"","image_url":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/block_image_16_9_lge\/public\/2025-04\/20200114%20Regents%20Prof%20Joan%20Silk%20030.jpg?itok=oD1xHSRZ","image_alt":"Joan Silk ","image_caption":"ASU Regents Professor Joan Silk has collected an assortment of primate figurines over her 40 years as a primatologist. 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With time spent in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, India, the U.S. and South Africa, the School of Human Evolution and Social Change undergraduate knew she had found a permanent home in anthropology even before\u2026","post_date":"\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222024-12-02T12:46:47-07:00\u0022\u003E12\/02\/2024-12:46pm\u003C\/time\u003E\n","clas_teaser":"Jenna Mae Schultz is lauded as one of the best and brightest undergraduate students to have come through the School of Human Evolution and Social Change in over two decades. ","teaser":"By the time she was 18 years old, Jenna Mae Schultz was already a bonafide world traveler. 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But over the past half-century, human culture and cultural evolution fields have grown.Culture \u2014 how information is socially shared and passed to others \u2014 isn\u2019\u2026","post_date":"\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222024-11-22T08:48:33-07:00\u0022\u003E11\/22\/2024-8:48am\u003C\/time\u003E\n","clas_teaser":"After 40 years, numerous research papers and eight books, ASU Professor Robert Boyd, a forerunner in the field of cultural evolution, wrote essays giving insights into the field for the journals Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.","teaser":"When Robert Boyd wrote his 1985 book \u201cCulture and the Evolutionary Process,\u201d ","story_images":"","hero_image":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/block_image_16_9_lge\/public\/2024-11\/Copy%20of%20Untitled%20Design.png?itok=vEkPMbMp","path":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/20241122-science-and-technology-pioneering-professor-cultural-evolution-pens-essays-leading","hide_byline":"0","contributor-contact-information-affiliation":"School of Human Evolution and Social Change","contributor-contact-information-name":"Nicole Pomerantz","contributor-contact-information-e-mail":"{{ mail }}","contributor-contact-information-phone_number":"480-965-0610","contributor-contact-information-campus":"","feed_image_link":"","image_url":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/block_image_16_9_lge\/public\/2024-11\/Copy%20of%20Untitled%20Design.png?itok=vEkPMbMp","image_alt":"Collage of photos of covers of books by Professor Robert Boyd.","image_caption":"Covers of three of ASU Professor Robert Boyd\u0026#039;s publications. \u0026quot;Culture and the Evolutionary Process,\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;Not By Genes Alone\u0026quot; cover images courtesy of The University of Chicago Press. \u0026quot;A Different Kind of Animal\u0026quot; cover image courtesy of Princeton University Press.","related_story":"","news_units":"School of Human Evolution and Social Change|Institute of Human Origins|The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences","interests":"Anthropology|Expert Q-and-A|Psychology|Science|Social science","audiences":"Faculty|Graduate students","locations":"","u_n_sustainable_development_goals":"SDG 15 Life on Land","field_feed_herberger":"","field_feed_nursing":"","field_feed_knowledge_enterprise":"","content_type":"asu_news_article","field_saf":"Science and technology"}},{"node":{"nid":"103439","title":"Lucy\u0027s lasting legacy: Donald Johanson reflects on the discovery of a lifetime","body":"Fifty years ago, in the dusty hills of Hadar, Ethiopia, a young paleoanthropologist, Donald Johanson, discovered what would become one of the most famous fossil skeletons of our lifetime \u2014 the 3.2 million-year-old human ancestor \u201cLucy.\u201d\u0026nbsp;This small creature is important to the human lineage\u2026","post_date":"\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222024-11-21T11:27:45-07:00\u0022\u003E11\/21\/2024-11:27am\u003C\/time\u003E\n","clas_teaser":"In the 50 years since Lucy was discovered, the importance of this discovery has not diminished, but has fueled expansion of the search for how we \u201cbecame human.\u201d Donald Johanson, who found the skeleton in the dusty hills of Hadar, Ethiopia, talks about his work and the life-changing discovery.","teaser":"Fifty years ago, in the dusty hills of Hadar, Ethiopia, a young paleoanthropologist, Donald Johanson, discovered what would become one of the most famous fossil skeletons of our lifet","story_images":"","hero_image":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/block_image_16_9_lge\/public\/2024-11\/01A%20DCJ%20DAY%20OF%20LUCY%20FIND-cropped-correct%20orientation.jpg?itok=cwnxofop","path":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/20241121-science-and-technology-lucys-lasting-legacy-donald-johanson-reflects-discovery-lifetime","hide_byline":"0","contributor-contact-information-affiliation":"Institute of Human Origins","contributor-contact-information-name":"Julie Russ","contributor-contact-information-e-mail":"{{ mail }}","contributor-contact-information-phone_number":"480-727-6571","contributor-contact-information-campus":"Tempe campus","feed_image_link":"","image_url":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/block_image_16_9_lge\/public\/2024-11\/01A%20DCJ%20DAY%20OF%20LUCY%20FIND-cropped-correct%20orientation.jpg?itok=cwnxofop","image_alt":"Man crouched in the dirt in a desert landscape.","image_caption":"Donald Johanson at the Lucy discovery site in Ethiopia on Nov. 24, 1974. 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","body":"Why is human culture \u2014 the shared body of knowledge passed down across generations \u2014 so much more powerful than animal cultures?\u201cWhat\u2019s special about our species?\u201d is a question scientists have wrestled with for centuries, and now a scientist at Arizona State University has a new hypothesis that\u2026","post_date":"\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222024-11-07T09:00:00-07:00\u0022\u003E11\/07\/2024-9:00am\u003C\/time\u003E\n","clas_teaser":"ASU evolutionary anthropologist\u00a0Thomas Morgan and Stanford University Professor Marcus Feldman address this question in their new paper, \u201cHuman culture is uniquely open-ended not uniquely cumulative,\u201d published in Nature Human Behaviour. They present a new hypothesis: that we humans dominate and are so special because of \u201copen-endedness\u201d \u2014 our ability to communicate and understand an infinite number of possibilities in life.","teaser":"Why is human culture \u2014 the shared body of knowledge passed down across generations \u2014 so much more powerful than animal cultures?","story_images":"","hero_image":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/block_image_16_9_lge\/public\/2024-11\/Untitled%20design.png?itok=EuCA9UpE","path":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/20241107-health-and-medicine-asu-paper-what-makes-human-culture-unique","hide_byline":"1","contributor-contact-information-affiliation":"","contributor-contact-information-name":"","contributor-contact-information-e-mail":"","contributor-contact-information-phone_number":"","contributor-contact-information-campus":"","feed_image_link":"","image_url":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/block_image_16_9_lge\/public\/2024-11\/Untitled%20design.png?itok=EuCA9UpE","image_alt":"Human Mind, Getty Images","image_caption":"Photo courtesy of Getty Images","related_story":"","news_units":"School of Human Evolution and Social Change|Institute of Human Origins|The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences","interests":"Anthropology|Psychology|Social science|Research","audiences":"Faculty|Graduate students","locations":"","u_n_sustainable_development_goals":"","field_feed_herberger":"","field_feed_nursing":"","field_feed_knowledge_enterprise":"","content_type":"asu_news_article","field_saf":"Health and medicine"}},{"node":{"nid":"103078","title":"Is \u2018U-shaped happiness\u2019 universal?","body":"A theory that\u2019s been around for more than a decade describes a person\u2019s subjective well-being \u2014 or \u201chappiness\u201d \u2014 as having a U-shape throughout the course of one\u2019s life. If plotted on a graph, the shape would be concave, revealing high happiness levels throughout one\u2019s youth, declining and\u2026","post_date":"\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222024-10-24T14:26:15-07:00\u0022\u003E10\/24\/2024-2:26pm\u003C\/time\u003E\n","clas_teaser":"According to new research, the U-shape of happiness is not as fundamental to humanity as previously assumed.","teaser":"A theory that\u2019s been around for more than a decade describes a person\u2019s subjective well-being \u2014 or \u201chappiness\u201d \u2014 as having a U-shape throughout the course of one\u2019s life.","story_images":"","hero_image":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/block_image_16_9_lge\/public\/2024-10\/28.JPG?itok=s71PlJcE","path":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/20241024-health-and-medicine-ushaped-happiness-universal","hide_byline":"0","contributor-contact-information-affiliation":"School of Human Evolution and Social Change","contributor-contact-information-name":"Megan Martin","contributor-contact-information-e-mail":"{{ mail }}","contributor-contact-information-phone_number":"","contributor-contact-information-campus":"Tempe campus","feed_image_link":"","image_url":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/block_image_16_9_lge\/public\/2024-10\/28.JPG?itok=s71PlJcE","image_alt":"A view of a traditional Tsimane home seen from a boat in a river","image_caption":"The Tsimane community, a forager-horticultural society in the Bolivian Amazon lowlands, was part of a first-time look at well-being among nonindustrialized communities. 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But Johanson probably knows just as much about what he didn\u2019t\u00a0find on that historic day half a century ago: a complete skull.","teaser":"Donald Johanson knows more than anyone else about what he found when he spotted the Lucy fossil skeleton in Ethiopia in 1974.","story_images":"","hero_image":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/block_image_16_9_lge\/public\/2024-10\/Johanson%2BSkull.jpg?itok=q9TJDzmm","path":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/20241022-science-and-technology-crown-jewel-finding-complete-skull-lucy","hide_byline":"0","contributor-contact-information-affiliation":"Media Relations and Strategic Communications","contributor-contact-information-name":"Steve Filmer","contributor-contact-information-e-mail":"{{ mail }}","contributor-contact-information-phone_number":"602-826-6272","contributor-contact-information-campus":"Tempe campus","feed_image_link":"","image_url":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/block_image_16_9_lge\/public\/2024-10\/Johanson%2BSkull.jpg?itok=q9TJDzmm","image_alt":"A man holds a reconstructed skull of the Lucy fossil","image_caption":"Donald Johanson holds a reconstructed skull of the species Australopithecus afarensis. 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His answer now stands upright and peers out\u2026","post_date":"\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222024-09-25T11:44:52-07:00\u0022\u003E09\/25\/2024-11:44am\u003C\/time\u003E\n","clas_teaser":"What might Lucy have looked like when she was alive? There\u0026#039;s no time machine to take us back 3.2 million years, but a very special artist shows us how he has fused human anatomy with prehistoric finds to make a lifelike re-creation of Lucy.","teaser":"The challenge: Take just 40 small bones and conjure a life-size, lifelike recreation of one of the most important creatures in all of human history.\u0026nbsp;","story_images":"","hero_image":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/block_image_16_9_lge\/public\/2024-09\/_DSF6549%20copy%202.jpg?h=a732b318\u0026amp;itok=82Xuh3eW","path":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/20240925-science-and-technology-asu-lucy-discovery-artist-lifelike-re-creation","hide_byline":"0","contributor-contact-information-affiliation":"Media Relations and Strategic Communications","contributor-contact-information-name":"Steve Filmer","contributor-contact-information-e-mail":"{{ mail }}","contributor-contact-information-phone_number":"602-826-6272","contributor-contact-information-campus":"Tempe campus","feed_image_link":"","image_url":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/block_image_16_9_lge\/public\/2024-09\/_DSF6549%20copy%202.jpg?h=a732b318\u0026amp;itok=82Xuh3eW","image_alt":"Paleoartist John Gurche touches up the Lucy hominid skeleton","image_caption":"Paleoartist John Gurche touches up the Lucy re-creation. 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It\u2019s a find that shook the world of paleoanthropology and that still spawns new research.\u0026nbsp;The saying goes that \u201cbig things come from small beginnings,\u201d so we asked Johanson \u2014 the\u2026","post_date":"\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222024-08-27T13:21:30-07:00\u0022\u003E08\/27\/2024-1:21pm\u003C\/time\u003E\n","clas_teaser":"Nov. 24 will mark 50 years since Arizona State University\u2019s Donald Johanson discovered the Lucy fossil skeleton, shaking the world of paleoanthropology. The saying goes that \u201cbig things come from small beginnings,\u201d so we asked Johanson to show us the first tiny bone of Lucy that he spotted, and how it led to his discovery of Lucy\u2019s skeleton in Hadar, Ethiopia.","teaser":"Nov. 24 will mark 50 years since Arizona State University\u2019s Donald Johanson discovered the Lucy fossil skeleton. It\u2019s a find that shook the world of paleoanthropology and that still spawns new research.\u0026nbsp;","story_images":"","hero_image":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/block_image_16_9_lge\/public\/2024-08\/_DSF8836.jpg?itok=3cYzkps9","path":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/20240827-science-and-technology-tiny-bone-led-very-big-discovery-asu-lucy-skeleton-anniversary","hide_byline":"0","contributor-contact-information-affiliation":"Media Relations and Strategic Communications","contributor-contact-information-name":"Steve Filmer","contributor-contact-information-e-mail":"{{ mail }}","contributor-contact-information-phone_number":"602-826-6272","contributor-contact-information-campus":"","feed_image_link":"","image_url":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/block_image_16_9_lge\/public\/2024-08\/_DSF8836.jpg?itok=3cYzkps9","image_alt":"An older man points to his elbow while standing near a monument plaque in a barren dirt field","image_caption":"This summer, Donald Johanson, the Virginia M. Ullman Chair in Human Origins in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change and the founding director of the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University, visited the location where he first discovered the Lucy fossil skeleton in Hadar, Ethiopia, in 1974. He explained that the \u201cfirst bone\u201d he found from Lucy was part of the upper arm. 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Read how \u201cLucy\u201d is still impacting science and how her secrets could help unlock clues to how humans adapt to a changing world.","teaser":"\n  \n    \n        \n","story_images":"","hero_image":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/block_image_16_9_lge\/public\/2024-08\/240801%20ASU%20Thrive%20FALL%202024%20%E2%80%93%20%27Lucy%27%20and%20the%20origin%20of%20humans%20%E2%80%93%202400x1350%20ASU%20News%20ARTICLE%20lead%20photo%20%E2%80%93%C2%A0headline%20on%20top%204.png?itok=LQ8hia8N","path":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/20240823-science-and-technology-lucy-and-origins-humans","hide_byline":"0","contributor-contact-information-affiliation":"Institute of Human Origins","contributor-contact-information-name":"Julie Russ","contributor-contact-information-e-mail":"{{ mail }}","contributor-contact-information-phone_number":"480-727-6571","contributor-contact-information-campus":"Tempe campus","feed_image_link":"","image_url":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/block_image_16_9_lge\/public\/2024-08\/240801%20ASU%20Thrive%20FALL%202024%20%E2%80%93%20%27Lucy%27%20and%20the%20origin%20of%20humans%20%E2%80%93%202400x1350%20ASU%20News%20ARTICLE%20lead%20photo%20%E2%80%93%C2%A0headline%20on%20top%204.png?itok=LQ8hia8N","image_alt":"Close up of head and torso of hominid skeleton with an inset showing the full view","image_caption":"Photo of a replica skeleton of Lucy by Deanna Dent\/ASU.","related_story":"","news_units":"School of Human Evolution and Social Change|Institute of Human Origins|The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences","interests":"Anthropology|ASU Thrive|Social science|Research","audiences":"Faculty","locations":"Tempe campus","u_n_sustainable_development_goals":"","field_feed_herberger":"","field_feed_nursing":"","field_feed_knowledge_enterprise":"","content_type":"asu_news_article","field_saf":"Science and technology"}},{"node":{"nid":"100864","title":"ASU research site given UNESCO World Heritage designation","body":"At the edge of the south coast of South Africa, Arizona State University Professor Curtis Marean and his research teams have been teasing out the secrets of our earliest modern human ancestors in caves at Pinnacle Point, South Africa, for over 25 years.In late July, the site was declared a UNESCO\u2026","post_date":"\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222024-08-05T10:07:37-07:00\u0022\u003E08\/05\/2024-10:07am\u003C\/time\u003E\n","clas_teaser":"In late July, an ASU research site at the southern edge of South Africa that focuses on early modern humans was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site, which is only given to sites of \u201coutstanding universal value\u201d to all of humanity. 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Our culture and technology today are also the result of thousands of years of accumulated and\u2026","post_date":"\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222024-06-17T14:59:57-07:00\u0022\u003E06\/17\/2024-2:59pm\u003C\/time\u003E\n","clas_teaser":"A study\u00a0by ASU researcher\u00a0Charles Perreault\u00a0and doctoral graduate\u00a0Jonathan Paige\u00a0concludes that humans began to rapidly accumulate technological knowledge through social learning around 600,000 years ago.","teaser":"Editor\u2019s note:\u0026nbsp;This story is featured in the\u0026nbsp;","story_images":"","hero_image":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/block_image_16_9_lge\/public\/2024-06\/paige-perreault_stone_tools.jpg?itok=xSYcjv-H","path":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/20240617-science-and-technology-asu-study-points-origin-cumulative-culture-human-evolution","hide_byline":"0","contributor-contact-information-affiliation":"Institute of Human Origins","contributor-contact-information-name":"Julie Russ","contributor-contact-information-e-mail":"{{ mail }}","contributor-contact-information-phone_number":"480-727-6571","contributor-contact-information-campus":"Tempe campus","feed_image_link":"","image_url":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/block_image_16_9_lge\/public\/2024-06\/paige-perreault_stone_tools.jpg?itok=xSYcjv-H","image_alt":"Three stone tools against a black background","image_caption":"Stone tools that become increasingly more complex over the course of 3 million years. Left: First time period studied \u2014 Oldowan core, Koobi Fora, Kenya (below baselines). Center: Second time period studied \u2014 Acheulean cleaver, Algeria (around baseline). Right: Characteristic of 600,000 year ago technology \u2014 Levallois core, late Pleistocene Algeria. Image credits: (left) Curry, Michael. 2020. Oldowan Core, Koobi Fora. Museum of Stone Tools. Retrieved June 10. From: https:\/\/une.pedestal3d.com\/r\/DGHMTdkn4_; (middle) Curry, Michael. 2020. Acheulean Cleaver, Morocco, Koobi Fora. Museum of Stone Tools. Retrieved June 10. From: https:\/\/une.pedestal3d.com\/r\/JMVajqyz29; (right) Watt, Emma. 2020. Levallois Core, Algeria. Museum of Stone Tools. Retrieved June 10. 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Unfortunately, the snares are also capable of catching wild chimpanzees, resulting in injured fingers, toes, hands, feet \u2014 and sometimes complete amputation.Kevin Langergraber, an associate professor at\u2026","post_date":"\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222024-06-07T09:03:23-07:00\u0022\u003E06\/07\/2024-9:03am\u003C\/time\u003E\n","clas_teaser":"Kevin Langergraber, an associate professor at Arizona State University\u0026#039;s School of Human Evolution and Social Change, and his team decided to implement a snare removal program in 2011 after witnessing and helping chimpanzees who were getting injured in snares. 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Lita (left), an adult female chimpanzee, lost her foot. Photo by Kevin Langergraber. Peterson (right), an adult male, was the only chimpanzee snared at Ngogo after ASU primatologist Kevin Langergraber and his team started the snare removal program in 2011. With the help of the Uganda Wildlife Authority, they successfully removed his wire snare. 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Photo by Julie Russ\/ASU","related_story":"","news_units":"School of Human Evolution and Social Change|Institute of Human Origins|The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences","interests":"Grants \/ Awards|Social science","audiences":"Faculty","locations":"Tempe campus","u_n_sustainable_development_goals":"","field_feed_herberger":"","field_feed_nursing":"","field_feed_knowledge_enterprise":"","content_type":"asu_news_article","field_saf":"University news"}}]}