There really is something uniquely, even disturbingly, distinctive in the way in which modern Homo sapiens perceive the world and interact with it. Rather than simply responding to the stimuli they receive from outside, they recreate the world in their minds to explain it to themselves. Homo ...
Modern humans Within the last 100,000 years or so, the most recent chapter in our story unfolded. Modern humans spread throughout the world andNeanderthalsand Denisovans disappeared. Exactly why they went extinct is another great mystery, but it seems likely that our species played its part. In...
andhowandwhendid this unique capacity evolve. The emergence of this capacity must have happened after hominins diverged from thepan-hominin last common ancestor(pan-hom LCA) about 6–7 million years ago (mya) but before modern humans(anatomical modern Homo sapiens)began to create art objects abo...
Even though the fossil record of elephant ancestors is rich—withalmost 300 species described– we simply haven't known the answer for a long time. From the earliest species with small brains to the modernelephantswith large brains, there was analmost 30 million-year-longgap in our knowledge....
hook, they used a long spoon to scoop out any remaining bits. Finally, they rinsed the skull withwater. Surprisingly, the brain was one of the few organs the Egyptians did not try to preserve. They weren't sure what it was for, but they assumed you wouldn't need it in the next ...
Humans have existed for a long time. In the hundreds of thousands of years we've been walking the planet, our numbers have grown. How is it that only about 200,000 years ago a single woman became the great-grandmother of us all? Shouldn't human history go further back than that?
But like so many people in the ancestral health genre, I was sort of gobsmacked when I started to think in terms of, “How did we evolve and what were the selective pressures that shaped our physiological make-up, our nutritional requirements and things?” And that seemed like such a...
Modern strategies and communications have an excellent ability to promote loyalty, establish the brand value, as well as boost sales and engagement. Innovation stimulates the interest and attention of the consumers, drawing them to the physical shop or even to a digital channel. These changes give...
change ininsolationdue to orbital forcing would have made the tropics cooler-than-present, while outside the tropics, the Northern Hemisphere in particular, was much warmer. See the figure below fromMarcott et al (2013)and note panel C) - the average annualinsolationanomaly compared to modern-...
Modern climate change continues to pose challenges for bear species, particularly for those like polar bears, whose habitats are rapidly changing. Human Impact Human activity has significantly influenced bear evolution in recent times. Habitat destruction, climate change, and hunting have pressured bear ...