I want a more current book on human evolution for freshman/sophomore college students to read that has the sensibilities of Chris Stringer's Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth
Wild #canids share a lot of traits w/ humans: socially monogamous, biparental care, allocare, high reproductive rate, big brains & Prefrontal cortex, cooperative hunting & meat-based diet (but often omnivorous), highly mobile, ecologically successful generalists.
Not so much on the side of self-domestication here.
This is a good selection of wow moments for human evolution in 2023. We especially ❤️ the plank structures of half a million years at Kalambo Falls and the Giant 🦥 pendants!
But something very important got left out (from right at the end of last year)...
This paper by Dapschauskas et al of the Middle Stone Age ochre record gives us the date for the human symbolic revolution -- 160,000 years -- by demonstrating an habitual ritual tradition. It's mega news which few outlets picked up on. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10963-022-09170-2
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Tuesday Sept 26, 6:30pm (London time)
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Interesting study on megafaunal extinctions in Southern California by O'Keefe et al., showing that extinctions coincided with an expansion of fire regimes, associated with a drying climate as well as with human activity.
Scientists have found that what makes us human may not be what we have in our DNA, but what we lack. They identified 10,000 pieces of DNA that are present in other mammals but deleted in humans. These deletions are related to genes involved in brain and cognitive functions, suggesting that they played a role in human evolution.
"Study Offers New Twist in How the First Humans Evolved
Scientists have revealed a surprisingly complex origin of our species, rejecting the long-held argument that modern humans arose from one place in Africa during one period in time.
By analyzing the genomes of 290 living people, researchers concluded that modern humans descended from at least two populations that coexisted in Africa for a million years before merging in several independent events across the continent. The findings were published on Wednesday in Nature."
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