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Discarding Old Theories on the Path to Finding the First Humans Outside Africa
Spectacular archeological finds reveal the true past of the first Europeans. Atapuerca, Gran Dolina excavation -- Malopez 21, CC BY-SA...
Michael Laxer
Mar 6, 20246 min read
The Adaptive Value of Teenagers: How Peer Learning Contributes to Primate Success
By Brenna R. Hassett Anthropological science is our species’ attempt to address our most fundamental questions about who we are and how...
Michael Laxer
Mar 2, 20244 min read
Outdated Narratives Have Humanity in a Downward Spiral—It’s Time to Tell ‘Stories for Life’
A short film and narratives project “Stories for Life” seeks to bring about the shift in culture that humanity needs to survive....
Michael Laxer
Feb 26, 20247 min read
Advances in Archaeology Allow Us to Understand Political Evolution and Social Change in Deep Time
Archaeological Zone of Yaxchilan -- ZoRrO0880, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons By...
Michael Laxer
Feb 23, 20242 min read
The Evolution of the Human Pair Bond
Young couple enjoying each other's company -- John Brighenti from Rockville, MD, United States, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/li...
Michael Laxer
Feb 22, 20246 min read
How Three New Museums Are Teaching the World About a Paradigm Shift in Our Understanding of Human Origins
New findings and significant advances in research have scientists rethinking our origins, and museums around the world are working to...
Michael Laxer
Feb 15, 202415 min read
We Can Interpret How Cooperative or Autocratic Mesoamerican Societies Were From Their Systems of Communication
View of the Avenue of the Dead and the Pyramid of the Sun, from Pyramid of the Moon, Teotihuacán -- Jackhynes, Public domain, via...
Michael Laxer
Feb 14, 20243 min read
Prepared Learning: What Are Humans Hard-Wired for at Birth?
By Marjorie Hecht Do living beings learn and pass on to future generations some behaviors or predispositions more easily than others––and...
Michael Laxer
Feb 11, 20246 min read
How Long Has Humanity Been at War With Itself?
Is large-scale intra-specific warfare Homo sapiens’ condition or can our species strive to achieve global peace? Primitive tools --...
Michael Laxer
Feb 9, 202410 min read
How the Food Industry Uses Big Tobacco’s Playbook
The strategy used by Big Tobacco in the US is called state or “ceiling” preemption: promoting weaker state public health laws to override...
Michael Laxer
Jan 19, 20246 min read
A Compelling Theory to Explain a Key Trait of Modern Humans
Pinnacle Point, South Africa By Marjorie Hecht Paleoanthropologist Curtis Marean has developed a comprehensive explanation based on a...
Michael Laxer
Jan 4, 20246 min read
Do Grandmothers Hold the Key to Understanding Human Evolution?
By Brenna R. Hassett Of the innumerable species on the planet, just a bare handful have evolved to have one of the most counterintuitive...
Michael Laxer
Dec 10, 20236 min read
Was the Sphere the First Geometrical Form Made by Humans?
Shaped stone balls from Qesem Cave, c. 420,000–200,000 years old. Photo Credit: Assaf, Ella, Wikipedia Commons By Deborah Barsky...
Michael Laxer
Dec 2, 20234 min read
Ancient Roots: A Promising New Project to Organize Humanity’s Universal Heritage
An international group of researchers and data scientists are creating a comprehensive database of the world’s archaeological...
Michael Laxer
Sep 14, 20237 min read
Lenin and Krupskaya in Gorki, 1922
Images of Lenin #11 Lenin and Krupskaya in Gorki, 1922 -- Images of Lenin #11 Lenin and Krupskaya with Lenin's sister Anna Elizarova and...
Michael Laxer
Mar 27, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #291
Monument to Union Labour, Dimitrovgrad, USSR 1985 -- Daily LIFT #291
Michael Laxer
Sep 26, 20201 min read
Soviet socialism and the war recovery
History shows that after the almost unreal sacrifices and blows of the war and the distortions to Soviet society these led to, the...
Michael Laxer
Sep 26, 20206 min read
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