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Friendships in the Utah State Legislature

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When collaborating outside their social circles to enact policies, Utah state legislators tend to build enduring bipartisan relationships.

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March 7, 2022

Climate drove 7,000 years of dietary changes

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Projected climatic changes will be essential to predict health and well-being for populations in the future.

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February 8, 2022

Megaherbivore extinctions and wildfires

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Loss of ancient grazers triggered a dramatic increase in fire activity across the world’s grasslands.

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December 3, 2021

Indigenous land-use reduced catastrophic wildfires on the Fish Lake Plateau

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U researchers found that 1,000 years ago, the Fremont used cultural burning to reduce the risk for large-scale wildfire activity in mountain environments.

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April 14, 2021

A reversal of Earth’s geomagnetic field

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Approximately 42,000 years ago the Earth’s geomagnetic field reversed, triggering dramatic climate shifts and fueling ecological change on a global scale.

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February 23, 2021

Experiences south of the border

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Hands-on learning in Mexico.

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January 20, 2021

Restorative justice preferred among the Enga

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Advocates have called for a restorative justice system that repairs harm done to victims and reintegrates wrongdoers into society. The Enga of Papua New Guinea balance retribution and restitution.

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December 10, 2020

Silencing the booming chorus

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From 2007 to 2009, a yellow fever virus outbreak nearly decimated El Parque El Piñalito’s howler monkey populations. Exposure to a past virus may have aided brown howlers’ survival.

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August 12, 2020

Earliest interbreeding event between ancient human populations discovered

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The new study goes back further than 23andme could have ever imagined.

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February 21, 2020

University statement on former professor Henry Harpending

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Henry Harpending was a professor of anthropology from 1997 until his death in 2016.

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January 3, 2020

Ecosystems of early human evolution

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To understand the environmental pressures that shaped human evolution, scientists must first piece together the details of the ancient plant and animal communities that our fossil ancestors lived in over the past 7 million years.

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October 10, 2019

Mesoamerica comes to the U

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Maya experts from around the world will convene at the U for the Mesoamerican Conference that focuses on preclassic Maya history between 2000 B.C. and 250 A.D.

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November 9, 2018

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