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Topics to include #humanevolution, science & religion, #climatechange & hope.

Connecting all kinds of ideas with a #bighistory lens.

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Comparing Neanderthal Introgression Maps Reveals Core Agreement But Substantial Heterogeneity Abstract. Statistical methods to identify Neanderthal ancestry in modern human genomes rest on varying assumptions and inputs. Nonetheless, most studies of

@yaenc.bsky.social Velazquez-Arcelay & Capra compared 14 Neanderthal introgression maps, highlighting a core set of regions predicted by nearly all methods, as well as substantial heterogeneity in commonly used introgression maps.

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#evobio #molbio #humanevolution

A Jaw from Egypt Rewrites the Origin of Modern Apes A newly described Early Miocene ape from northern Egypt suggests the common ancestor of all living apes lived in a region that paleontologists had largely stopped looking.

A 17-million-year-old jaw from Egypt just challenged where all living apes originated. One mandible from the desert, and the field’s East Africa-centered model is under serious pressure. #Paleoanthropology #HumanEvolution #Miocene www.primatology.net/p/a-jaw-from...

The Ape Culture Wars Are Not Really About Apes How a decades-long fight between primatologists says as much about scientific culture as it does about chimpanzee culture

The “ape culture wars” have raged for 50+ years — not over whether chimps have culture (they do), but what kind and how it spreads. A new paper maps the battle and argues both sides are missing hidden common ground. #Primatology #HumanEvolution #AnimalCulture www.primatology.net/p/the-ape-cu...

Your Body Is Older Than the Grocery Store - Dualistic Unity Modern diets conflict with our ancient biology. Learn why eating closer to how our ancestors ate supports metabolism, hormones, and long-term health.

Hunger, taste, and craving evolved long before labels, brands, and processed ingredients. When those signals meet modern food engineering, how do they interact?

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#HumanEvolution #PsychologicalInsight

One Species, Barely Holding Together Two new genomic studies reveal Neanderthals as a patchwork of tiny, isolated populations — more genetically divided than any humans alive today

Two new genomic studies reveal Neanderthals as a patchwork of tiny, isolated groups — more genetically fractured than any living human populations. A single bottleneck nearly ended them 65,000 years ago. #Neanderthals #AncientDNA #HumanEvolution #Anthropology #Paleoanthropology

Before the First Harvest: Ancient DNA and the Paleolithic Dogs of Europe Two companion studies push the genetic record of domestic dogs back nearly 5,000 years, revealing a population that spread across genetically distinct human cultures before farming existed

Ancient DNA from Britain & Turkey confirms dogs were widespread across Ice Age Europe by 15,800 years ago — genetically similar across three distinct human cultures long before farming existed. What do we actually know about the first dogs? #Palaeogenomics #Zooarchaeology #HumanEvolution #Dogs

Shaped Around the Fossil: Acheulean Handaxes and the Strange Stones of Sakhnin Valley A new site in northern Israel reveals Lower Palaeolithic handaxes crafted around fossils—a find that reopens the debate over how early humans perceived stone.

A valley in northern Israel has produced 10 handaxes deliberately shaped around fossils and geodes, unprecedented for a single Acheulean site. What did early humans see in strange stone? #Palaeolithic #Acheulean #HumanEvolution www.anthropology.net/p/shaped-aro...

Killing Is Not Just Fighting Turned Up A new comparative study of 100 primate species finds that lethal and mild aggression have decoupled evolutionarily — and that how often a species bickers tells you almost nothing about whether it kill

New research on 100 primate species finds that mild and lethal aggression are evolutionarily decoupled — species that fight often aren’t more likely to kill. Bickering and murder follow different evolutionary paths. #Primatology #HumanEvolution #Aggression @evolletters.bsky.social

#realrevolution #consciousness #humanevolution #thirdeyeawakening #higherconsciousness #choosetoevolve #5d #cosmicconsciousness #revolutionofconsciousness #expandingconsciousness #evolutionofconsciousness

The Bow Didn't Spread Gradually. It Arrived. New radiocarbon evidence rewrites the timeline of one of prehistory's most consequential weapon transitions — and reveals that how a technology spreads depends as much on ecology as on invention.

The bow didn’t slowly diffuse across North America. It arrived — almost simultaneously — 1,400 years ago. New radiocarbon data from actual preserved weapons shows two very different stories of what happened next. #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #Paleoanthropology www.anthropology.net/p/the-bow-di...

Your Body Is Older Than the Grocery Store - Dualistic Unity Modern diets conflict with our ancient biology. Learn why eating closer to how our ancestors ate supports metabolism, hormones, and long-term health.

The grocery store feels normal partly because it’s familiar. When familiarity hides how recent something is in human history, what perspective becomes possible?

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#HumanEvolution #Awareness

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Preeclampsia May Have Shaped the Fate of Neanderthals and Given Homo sapiens an Edge #Science #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #Neanderthals #Preeclampsia #HumanEvolution

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15,000-Year-Old Clay Beads Preserve Children’s Fingerprints and Reveal Early Human Life #Science #Archaeology #Other #AncientHistory #HumanEvolution #ArchaeologicalFinds

www.discovermagazine.com/15-000-year-old-clay-bea...

The feed for the annual meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists is live!

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LMK if there is a post that is missing that you think should be added, or unrelated posts that don't belong.

#AABA2026 #HBA2026 @bioanth.org 🧪 #BioAnth #HumanEvolution

ICArEHB researcher @veraaldeias.bsky.social is featured in Le Monde on one of prehistory’s key questions: when did humans really master fire? 🔥
FR article: www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...
#Paleoanthropology #Neanderthal #HumanEvolution

🪨 Early Oldowan tech thrived during Pliocene environmental change in Kenya’s Turkana Basin.
#ICArEHB researchers Jonathan S. Reeves, René Bobe & Susana Carvalho with D. R. Braun et al. in Nature Communications: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41188262/
#Oldowan #HumanEvolution #StoneTools

Project 2045 - Negative PID What if humans could leave their bodies behind and live through their conscience altogether? This is the essence of Project 2045.

Project 2045

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#2045 #project2045 #avatars #consciousness #Russia #science #humanEvolution #tech #medicine #negativepid

Fifth force - Wikipedia

The Theorised Fifth Force

#Physics #Biology
#FundamentalForces
#HumanEvolution

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When a Skeleton Lies About Its Age The problem with reading disease from bone is that disease changes the bone you're reading

How old was this skeleton, really? A new paper argues that disease alters the very bone markers used to estimate age at death — creating a methodological loop few researchers have addressed head-on. #Paleopathology #Bioarchaeology #HumanEvolution www.anthropology.net/p/when-a-ske...

What a Fractured Skull Can Tell You About How Someone Died A new bioengineering framework helps archaeologists distinguish violent from accidental cranial trauma in the archaeological record.

New bioengineering study on 329 experimental skull impacts offers archaeologists a framework for reading cranial fractures, and distinguishing ancient violence from accidental trauma. Bone thickness and fracture morphology are clues. #Bioarchaeology #ForensicAnthropology #HumanEvolution

Fifth force - Wikipedia

@setiinstitute.bsky.social @vaticanobservatory.bsky.social

The Theorised Fifth Force

#Physics #Biology
#FundamentalForces
#HumanEvolution

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This is getting interesting.
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#HumanEvolution

The Biology of Musicality: What Two Decades of Cross-Species Research Reveals About Why Humans Make Music Music may not be a cultural invention layered onto a silent brain — it may be something older and stranger than that.

New research argues musicality is a biological capacity — assembled from older perceptual, motor, and emotional systems — not just a cultural product. The fossils are silent, but the comparative data aren’t. #Anthropology #HumanEvolution #MusicCognition www.anthropology.net/p/the-biolog...

The Bonobo Myth: Why the Peaceful Ape Story Doesn't Hold Up A new large-scale study finds that Pan paniscus and Pan troglodytes are equally aggressive — they just hit different targets.

New research: chimpanzees are not more aggressive than bonobos. The real difference is in direction — who hits whom. The peaceful bonobo image may say more about sampling bias than evolution. #HumanEvolution #Primatology #Anthropology www.primatology.net/p/the-bonobo...

A Young Man in the Philippines, 2,000 Years Ago, Was Slowly Coming Apart at the Seams A Metal Period burial at Nagsabaran reveals how scurvy and hip ankylosis combined to reshape one life — and how a community responded.

A 2,000-year-old burial in the Philippines is rewriting what we know about scurvy in tropical Southeast Asia — and what ancient communities owed their most vulnerable members. #Paleopathology #HumanEvolution #Bioarchaeology www.anthropology.net/p/a-young-ma...

#ScienceRocks #HumanEvolution

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Today it's a desert. 105,000 years ago, it held waterfalls & modern homo sapiens

The @dailymaverick.co.za looks at work from an all-women team of HERI researchers who challenged theories of #humanevolution to show our ancestors lived in a water-rich Kalahari
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021...

What a Bone Needle Actually Tells You About the Past The story of needles and awls is more tangled than archaeologists assumed — and that's exactly what makes them interesting.

A new study finds that 69% of ethnographic needle & awl use had nothing to do with staying warm. Cold predicts use, but these tools also sutured wounds, tattooed skin, wove baskets, and marked ceremonies. The bone needle is more than a survival tool. #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #Paleolithic

New on Dryad: "Is the human chin a spandrel? Insights from an evolutionary analysis of ape craniomandibular form" 🧪

🔍 Dataset: bit.ly/46VL7Hs

📖 Article in @plosone.org: bit.ly/4lkHsZz

#biology #humanevolution #evolutionarybiology #opendata #research #researchintegrity