THE WORLD, A SPRAWLING TESTIMONIAL TO HUMAN FLEXIBILITY

Learn how cultural evolution, not just biology, allowed humans to adapt and spread from Africa to all parts of the world.

#HumanEvolution, #CulturalAdaptation, #HumanMigration, #OutofAfrica, #Anthropology

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Humans spread across the globe thanks to culture, which allowed them to adapt faster than biological changes. This is different from other animals.

#HumanEvolution, #CulturalAdaptation, #HumanMigration, #OutofAfrica, #Anthropology
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How Culture Helped Humans Spread Across The World From Africa

Learn how cultural evolution, not just biology, allowed humans to adapt and spread from Africa to all parts of the world.

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Humanity Evolves a 'Third Thumb Joint' for Giant Smartphones

Your pinky shelf days are numbered.

#AltAndPaperEN #HumanEvolution #Smartphone #Webcomic

RE: https://fediscience.org/@tksst/116320252816874221

The list of human anatomical anomallies from other apes is a long list, but also, curiously, a list that either specifically matches or leans toward another species? 🤔

http://www.macroevolution.net/human-origins.html

#humanevolution #hybrids #speculativescience

The Sama people of the Philippines evolved larger spleens for diving. That’s real local adaptation. Claims about IQ or heart disease? They don’t survive the same logic. New essay on Herman Pontzer’s Adaptable. #Anthropology #HumanEvolution #Paleoanthropology https://www.anthropology.net/p/what-local-adaptation-actually-requires
What Local Adaptation Actually Requires

Herman Pontzer's new book uses the Sama divers' enlarged spleens to make a precise case for human adaptability — and a precise case against its misuse.

Anthropology.net
One species. 300,000 years. 51 million square miles. A new study quantifies just how much cultural evolution accelerated human expansion — the answer is 88 million years’ worth. #Anthropology #HumanEvolution #CulturalEvolution https://www.anthropology.net/p/culture-did-what-biology-couldnt
Culture Did What Biology Couldn't: Quantifying the Engine Behind Human Planetary Dominance

A new study puts a number on how much cultural evolution accelerated our species' spread — and the answer is almost absurd.

Anthropology.net

Yang et al. sequenced ancient individuals from the Bronze Age to historical periods in Xinjiang, revealing divergent genetic profiles of the western and eastern Tianshan, underscoring a complex population-culture interplay.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag057

#evobio #molbio #humanevolution

Ancient genomes uncover dynamic cultural and genetic interplay in the eastern Tianshan

Abstract. The eastern Tianshan range in Xinjiang, serving as a crucial link between the East and the West, acts as an important channel for the eastward sp

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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 https://www.primatology.net/p/a-jaw-from-egypt-rewrites-the-origin
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.

Primatology.net
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 https://www.primatology.net/p/the-ape-culture-wars-are-not-really
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

Primatology.net
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 https://www.anthropology.net/p/one-species-barely-holding-together
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

Anthropology.net