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I had no idea how wild the story of human evolution was before chatting with the geneticist of ancient DNA David Reich.
Human history has been again and again a story of one group figuring ‘something’ out, and then basically wiping everyone else out.
From the tribe of 1k-10k modern humans... See more
Dwarkesh Patelx.comSAPIENS
sapiens-vision.comSo anthropology grounds Asya. At the same time, the novel gestures to the discipline’s troubled past, with its colonial underpinnings and tendency to exploit, extract, and other its subjects.
Cara Blue Adams • Infra-ordinary People | Cara Blue Adams
“[…] the glass of anthropological knowledge has become darkened by despondency, dystopian, and extinction theories. The earth is exhausted, and ontologies are dying. Many anthropological monographs read as funeral rites for communities. Alternatively, anthropologists offer hyper-micro studies of specific communities and their life worlds that still
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"The results yield a finite age suggesting that the Petralona cranium has a minimum age of 286 ± 9 ka"
New U-series dates on the Petralona cranium, a key fossil in European human evolution https://t.co/5HVE8huztk https://t.co/Fsb853stk7
TBH1: 12 000-year-old human skeleton and projectile point shed light on demographics and mortality in Terminal Pleistocene Southeast Asia https://t.co/rRwglHbxw1
Chris Stringerx.com
Why did so many hunter gatherer groups around the world nearly-simultaneously and in an unconnected way develop agriculture?
This has been a kinda problematic question in human prehistory.
It may have been solved... by an economist?
Studying the economics of...... See more
Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬x.com