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@FelisCatusDomesticus @PugJesus
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amazes me how their ancestors learned to live that way and thrive in such a climate

Yea, humans, I guess a synonym could be "survivor" (anyplace on earth)

The evolution of anatomically #modernhumans took place during the #Pleistocene

The #Pleistocene (the #IceAge) is the geological epoch that lasted from about 3 million to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations

@ZhiZhu
Thx 4 orig Pub boost

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene

Hacker News Oct 8

Study of 1M-year-old skull points to earlier origins of modern humans

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/sep/25/study-of-1m-year-old-skull-points-to-earlier-origins-of-modern-humans

#HackerNews #studyofskull #modernhumans #anthropology #evolution #history

Study of 1m-year-old skull points to earlier origins of modern humans

Skull found in China may be Homo longi, potentially revising understanding of human evolution

The Guardian

Ancient Origins Sep 9, 2025

𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗹𝗮'𝘀 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗪𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗛𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀
Analysis of 36,000-year-old animal remains reveals that the first modern humans in central Spain were expert hunters who thrived in environments once thought uninhabitable.
#prehistoric #paleolithic #modernhumans #homosapiens #ancienthistory #ancientorigins
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-evolution-human-origins/paleolithic-hunting-iberian-peninsula-0022423

First Modern Humans in the Iberian Peninsula Were Expert Hunters

Revolutionary analysis of animal remains from Abrigo de la Malia rock shelter reveals sophisticated hunting strategies employed by the first modern humans in central Spain 36,000 years ago.

Ancient Origins Reconstructing the story of humanity's past

Ancient Origins Aug 31, 2025

𝗢𝗹𝗱𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻-𝗡𝗲𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗹 𝗛𝘆𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗱 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱
Scientists discover 140,000-year-old child with both Neanderthal and Homo sapiens features in Israel's Skhul Cave, pushing back evidence of human interbreeding by over 100,000 years and rewriting our understanding of early human evolution.
#neanderthal #Modernhumans #homosapiens #humanevolution
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-evolution-human-origins/neanderthal-human-hybrid-0022399

Ancient Origins Jul 14, 2025

Revolutionary genetic research reveals that modern humans and Neanderthals interbred continuously for 200,000 years across multiple waves of contact. This groundbreaking Princeton study completely rewrites our understanding of human evolution and suggests Neanderthals were absorbed rather than extinct.
#humanevolution #neanderthals #modernhumans #homosapiens
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-evolution-human-origins/human-neanderthal-interbreeding-0022265

Radical Anthropology Jan 15, 2025

FREE community #fediscience, please BOOST!

Everybody welcome, just turn up!

TONIGHT, Last Quarter Moon 🌗
Jan 21, 18:30 (London UTC)
LIVE @UCLanthropology and on ZOOM

Camilla Power on
'Neanderthals, Homo sapiens and the human revolution'

Camilla Power will be comparing the evidence for the emergence of language, art and symbolism between the lineages of Neanderthals in Eurasia and Homo sapiens in Africa. Some similarities and some differences are suggested by archaeological, fossil, demographic + palaeogenomic data. Did both populations engage in the human symbolic revolution, and was this fundamental to interchange between them?

#humanorigins #Neanderthals #modernhumans #symbolicculture #anthropology #archaeology #fossils

LIVE in the Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor of the UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW. Please come on time before doors close.

ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak

AutisticMumTo3 Jul 9, 2024

CW: Paywall. New Scientist

Why did humans evolve big brains? A new idea bodes ill for our future | New Scientist

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26334991-100-why-did-humans-evolve-big-brains-a-new-idea-bodes-ill-for-our-future/

#Brain
#BrainSize
#HominidBrains
#HumanBrains
#BigBrains
#BrainShrinkage
#Paleontology
#Archeology
#ModernHumans
#Evolution

Why did humans evolve big brains? A new idea bodes ill for our future

Recent fossil finds suggest that big brains weren't an evolutionary asset to our ancestors but evolved by accident – and are likely to shrink again in the near future

New Scientist

readbeanicecream Dec 9, 2023

Who Were the First Modern Humans To Settle in Europe? Scientists Shed New Light

https://scitechdaily.com/who-were-the-first-modern-humans-to-settle-in-europe-scientists-shed-new-light/

#anthropology #humans #genetics #cnrs #europe #modernhumans #evolution

Who Were the First Modern Humans To Settle in Europe? Scientists Shed New Light

Before the permanent settlement of modern humans in Europe, other human populations migrated from Africa to Europe around 60,000 years ago. However, they did not establish long-term settlements. Around 40,000 years ago, a significant climate crisis, along with a super-eruption from the Phlegraean Fi

SciTechDaily

Laura aka LoboTC Oct 27, 2023

Ancient Siberian cave hosted #Neanderthals, #Denisovans, and #ModernHumans—possibly at the same time – #DNA from ancient soil reveals the #history of the cave that cracked open the field of #human #evolution
#aDNA #AncientDNA #palaeontology #prehistory
https://www.science.org/content/article/ancient-siberian-cave-hosted-neanderthals-denisovans-and-modern-humans-possibly-same

Magpieblog Oct 24, 2023

Genetic evidence appears to show that early modern humans interbred with Neanderthals in Eurasia about 250,000 years ago. This would put the first known contact between the two types of humans about 180,000 years earlier than had previously been believed.

#Neanderthals #ModernHumans #migration #paleontology #anthropology #paleoanthropology #genomes #HumanAncestry

https://www.sciencealert.com/unknown-human-lineage-found-buried-in-the-neanderthal-genome

Unknown Human Lineage Found Buried in The Neanderthal Genome

As Homo sapiens migrated into Eurasia more than 70,000 years ago, much of the continent was already inhabited by Neanderthals, hominins who shared an ancestor with us but had spent roughly half a million years diverging.

ScienceAlert