Primatology.net1d ago
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 https://www.primatology.net/p/killing-is-not-just-fighting-turned
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

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The Inquisitive Biologist2d ago

This week's #NewBooks at the library: three more books from my employer's January sale
- The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush: Museums and Paleontology in America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Paul D. Brinkman from the University of Chicago Press;
- Shaping Humanity: How Science, Art, and Imagination Help Us Understand Our Origins, a wonderfully illustrated book by John Gurche from Yale University Press;
- Rethinking Human Evolution edited by Jeffrey H. Schwartz, a volume in the Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology from @themitpress.

#Fossils #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Dinosaurs #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Anthropology #HumanEvolution #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon @bookstodon

Anthropology.net4d ago
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 https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-bow-didnt-spread-gradually-it
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.

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Negative PID SLMar 16

Project 2045

https://negativepid.blog/project-2045/

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

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.

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Brett HodnettMar 15

One more day to get a free copy of my novel, HUMAN, on itch.io. Check it out!

https://bretthodnett.itch.io/human

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HUMAN by Brett Hodnett

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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Anthropology.netMar 13
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
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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Anthropology.netMar 13
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
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.

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Brett HodnettMar 13

Only a few days left to get a free copy of my novel, HUMAN, on itch.io. Check it out!
https://bretthodnett.itch.io/human

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HUMAN by Brett Hodnett

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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Anthropology.netMar 12
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
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.

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Primatology.netMar 11
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
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.

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