Lauren Schroeder looks beyond natural selection to rethink human evolution
Paleoanthropologists have long focused primarily on adaptive processes
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Lauren Schroeder studies the processes that have driven human evolution. She has a tattoo of her favorite fossil, a 2-million-year-old Homo habilis skull.
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