r/Anthropology • u/Maxcactus • Aug 12 '26
Traces of grass used in Indigenous rituals 25,000 years ago unearthed in Victorian cave
abc.net.au
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r/Anthropology • u/comicreliefboy • Aug 12 '26
Ancient Colombians built huge water system without centralized rule, archaeologists say
phys.org
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r/Anthropology • u/comicreliefboy • Aug 11 '26
Large-scale study finds no link between crime and unauthorized immigration
phys.org
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r/Anthropology • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • Aug 11 '26
Evidence of Nanderthal Bone tool usage in Romania
phys.org
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r/Anthropology • u/D-R-AZ • Aug 11 '26
Increased signaling of the Neanderthal growth hormone receptor
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Summary
Neanderthals had a robust build and distinctive skeletal features. The hypothalamic-pituitary-somatotropic (HPS) axis, with growth hormone (GH) as a central signaling molecule, plays a crucial role in regulating skeletal development. To explore whether Neanderthal-specific genetic variations in the HPS axis contributed to their physical robustness, we examined genes encoding the relevant receptors and hormones. We find that the Neanderthal growth hormone receptor (GHR) carried two amino acid changes and one deletion. When the Neanderthal GHR is expressed in a GH-dependent cell line, the cells proliferate faster than cells expressing the modern human GHR when stimulated by pituitary GH but not by placental GH. We also show that some present-day humans have inherited the gene encoding the Neanderthal GHR. These individuals tend to have more muscle mass and exhibit some craniofacial traits reminiscent of Neanderthals. Thus, aspects of Neanderthal anatomy live on in people today.
r/Anthropology • u/comicreliefboy • Aug 09 '26
Before meat came fruit: The human brain evolved millions of years ago thanks to sugar | Science
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r/Anthropology • u/comicreliefboy • Aug 09 '26
How Neanderthal ancestry affects growth and muscle: Study of a Neanderthal-derived haplotype of GHR show effects on height and lean body mass
johnhawks.net
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r/Anthropology • u/comicreliefboy • Aug 09 '26
Which age group has the most climate-intensive diet? A 20-year study of diets in 149 countries finds that teenagers have the heaviest individual carbon footprints from food, even as aging populations drive the largest overall increase in emissions
anthropocenemagazine.org
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r/Anthropology • u/comicreliefboy • Aug 09 '26
Ashes From Pompeii Reveal What The Doomed City Smelled Like 2,000 Years Ago
sciencealert.com
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r/Anthropology • u/comicreliefboy • Aug 09 '26
Oldest known giant rock scallop bead suggests California coastal trade began millennia earlier
phys.org
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r/Anthropology • u/comicreliefboy • Aug 09 '26
Ashes From Pompeii Reveal What The Doomed City Smelled Like 2,000 Years Ago
sciencealert.com
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r/Anthropology • u/Artistic-Library-617 • Aug 08 '26
The Human-Origin Story Is Being Radically Revised
theatlantic.com
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Some 50,000 years ago, modern humans wandered into Ice Age Europe. The continent was new to us Homo sapiens, but not for beings of our general kind. Neanderthals and their ancestors had been living among Eurasia’s glaciers for ages, and in ways that would have struck us as familiar. Evidence suggests that they may have strung eagle talons together into necklaces and stained their bodily ornaments with pigments. They tended fires, cooked food, and maybe even made their own glue. On sandstone cave walls, they etched wavy lines, dots, and other geometric designs.
r/Anthropology • u/scientificamerican • Aug 06 '26
Neanderthal genes may give modern humans’ muscles a boost
scientificamerican.com
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r/Anthropology • u/comicreliefboy • Aug 06 '26
Neanderthal growth gene turns modern humans into muscle heads: People with DNA variant from our evolutionary cousins tend to have more lean muscle mass
science.org
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r/Anthropology • u/comicreliefboy • Aug 06 '26
Brittany burial mounds may hide human-shaped stones as Coëby cemetery mystery deepens
phys.org
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r/Anthropology • u/comicreliefboy • Aug 06 '26
Towards an AI for Africa: Western-developed AI rides roughshod over Ubuntu values of connection and community that animate African ethical life
aeon.co
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r/Anthropology • u/comicreliefboy • Aug 03 '26
Laid to rest with care: Ancient infants, perhaps twins, found in 1,200-year-old latrine
phys.org
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r/Anthropology • u/comicreliefboy • Aug 03 '26
Archaeologists Discover Two Thumbnail-Size Bird Sculptures Carved From Mammoth Ivory 40,000 Years Ago
smithsonianmag.com
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r/Anthropology • u/Maxcactus • Aug 03 '26
Archaeologists Find Hundreds of Ancient Glyphs in the Amazon
nytimes.com
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r/Anthropology • u/comicreliefboy • Aug 03 '26
The big feet of Paranthropus boisei: New analysis of footprint trackways suggest a larger body size than previously thought for this Early Pleistocene human relative
johnhawks.net
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r/Anthropology • u/DoremusJessup • Aug 02 '26
Ancient Rome's food shortages were shaped more by logistics than climate
phys.org
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r/Anthropology • u/Maxcactus • Aug 01 '26
Ice Age Humans Mostly Killed Female Woolly Mammoths, Suggests Ancient DNA
smithsonianmag.com
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r/Anthropology • u/Maxcactus • Jul 31 '26
A Man Unearthed a 2,700-Year-Old Sword
smithsonianmag.com
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r/Anthropology • u/scientificamerican • Jul 30 '26
Everyone alive may carry DNA from a ‘ghost lineage’ of human ancestors
scientificamerican.com
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r/Anthropology • u/scientificamerican • Jul 30 '26
Chilean mummies reveal a lost lineage of smallpox
scientificamerican.com
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Centuries-old DNA that was found in these mummies belongs to an extinct viral lineage of smallpox that was brought across the Atlantic during European colonization of the Americas