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Project 2045

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

Negative PID

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From a post-apocalyptic world of the near future, to the two very different societies that emerge 15 million years later

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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 https://www.anthropology.net/p/when-a-skeleton-lies-about-its-age

The problem with reading disease from bone is that disease changes the bone you're reading

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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 carry more information than most realize. #Bioarchaeology #ForensicAnthropology #HumanEvolution https://www.anthropology.net/p/what-a-fractured-skull-can-tell-you

A new bioengineering framework helps archaeologists distinguish violent from accidental cranial trauma in the archaeological record.

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From a post-apocalyptic world of the near future, to the two very different societies that emerge 15 million years later

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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 https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-biology-of-musicality-what-two

Music may not be a cultural invention layered onto a silent brain — it may be something older and stranger than that.

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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 https://www.primatology.net/p/the-bonobo-myth-why-the-peaceful

A new large-scale study finds that Pan paniscus and Pan troglodytes are equally aggressive — they just hit different targets.

Primatology.net

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 https://www.anthropology.net/p/a-young-man-in-the-philippines-2000

A Metal Period burial at Nagsabaran reveals how scurvy and hip ankylosis combined to reshape one life — and how a community responded.

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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 https://www.anthropology.net/p/what-a-bone-needle-actually-tells