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Category: Migration

WE WOULD STILL BE CHIMPS WITHOUT EVOLVING TEAMWORK

February 27, 2020

Filed under: Ancient human migration, Human Nature, Justice, Migration

We would still be competing for dominance over our cousins in our African refuges

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Europe’s Receding Coast

February 6, 2020

Filed under: eccology, History, Migration

CREDITS: (GRAPHIC) A. CUADRA/SCIENCE; EUROPE’S LOST FRONTIERS PROJECT/EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL; (PHOTOS, LEFT TO RIGHT) NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ANTIQUITIES (ROM) LEIDEN (1); MANON BRUININGA Article by Andrew Curry, Science  31 Jan 2020: Vol. 367, Issue 6477, pp. 499-503

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Migration

January 18, 2020

Filed under: Migration

From: January 10, 2020 issue of Science; GRAPHIC: N. DESAI/SCIENCE FROM B. BRASSEUR For outstanding movies of ancient migrations: click here

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Seafaring Homo erectus

Human Evolution: Earlier and Earlier

May 27, 2018

Filed under: Ancient human migration, History, Migration

A rule of human evolution research is that the milestones in the progression of becoming human are always getting earlier. The most prominent of those backward-creeping milestones is the date of the appearance of our own Homo sapiens species. Driven by new dating techniques, the fossils in Jebel Irhoud Morocco were revealed to be 300,000 …

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Out of Africa

Big Data Revolutionizes Out of Africa Story

April 22, 2018

Filed under: Ancient human migration, eccology, History, Migration

Every once in a while, an article captures my imagination. Such is the case with one written by Axel Timmermann & Tobias Friedrich entitled “Late Pleistocene climate drivers of early human Migration” (Nature, Vol. 538: 6 Oct. 2016). This is big data applied to a most fascinating topic. Here is the abstract: On the basis …

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Emotional Fossils: Mental Illness and Human Evolution
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Progressivism’s Deep Biological Roots

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Filed under: Belief, Evolution of Emotion, Evolutionary psychology, God, Popular, Sexual Selection | 15 Comments

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Filed under: Evolutionary psychology, Myth, Popular | 6 Comments

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Filed under: Belief, Evolution of Emotion, Evolutionary psychology, My Favorites

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