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FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Excavations at Bété I uncovered a striking connection between early humans and a wet tropical forest environment, dated to approximately 150,000 years ago using advanced dating techniques such as optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) and electron spin resonance (ESR). Their conclusion?

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JULY 9, 2024

The debate is about the best mix — what are AI’s most effective roles in helping students learn, and what aspects of teaching should remain indelibly human no matter how powerful AI becomes? But, there aren’t enough human tutors available nor enough money to pay for them, especially in the wake of pandemic-induced learning loss.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The drop in college graduates who majored in humanities ranges between 16 percent and 29 percent since 2012. The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002. As the economy recovered, so did the humanities. The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002.

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APRIL 9, 2025

The lack of privacy comes at a cost In Rigby, educators lean toward human interaction. Martin said those are helpful, but must be used in concert with human-led initiatives. He shares this example to illustrate how the district marries technology-related monitoring with human-led threat assessment. That’s the truth, right?

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MARCH 8, 2022

Humanities professors across the country have ceaselessly lamented the precipitous decline in undergraduate humanities majors in recent years. During the decade following the Great Recession of 2008, the number of humanities bachelor’s degree recipients fell by a whopping 14 percent — from a peak of about 236,000.

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APRIL 23, 2025

I was trying to understand how humans and wildlifeparticularly javelinaslive together in messy, contested landscapes, shaped as much by perception and politics as by biology. Instead, Jon turned his deep grounding in genetics into a sharp critique of how science makes claims about human difference. By the time I left for a Ph.D.

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MAY 2, 2025

Tracing Human Movement Across the Iranian Heartland In the northern reaches of Iran’s Central Desert, nestled between the rugged Alborz Mountains and the flat, wind-worn claylands to the south, archaeologists have uncovered eight scattered landscapes rich in Paleolithic stone tools. link] Shoaee, M.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2025

More than 46,000 years ago, deep within the caves of what is now northern Spain, a silent drama unfolded between humans and the great beasts of the Ice Age. More importantly, the study provided evidence that humans and large carnivores—like hyenas and leopards—coexisted in Iberia for much longer than previously thought.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2022

Read on for the full list of the stories most popular with readers in 2021. We Need to Make Schools Human Again. Her solutions include real listening, real change and learning to recognize one another’s humanity. Jeff Bezos Wants to Go to the Moon. Then, Public Education. That Means Treating Teachers With Respect.

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DECEMBER 2, 2024

Moreover, this finding contributes to a broader narrative that places Neanderthals as active participants in the cultural evolution of early humans. Their ability to develop and share complex technologies like tar-making illustrates their pivotal role in shaping the trajectory of human development. A., & Langejans, G.

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DECEMBER 27, 2021

In fact, it’s human nature to get caught up in what went wrong—an innate survival mechanism called “negativity bias” vigilantly draws our attention to worries and risks so we can better remember and avoid threats. Thus began my journey to strengthen my gratitude muscle to help push back negative thoughts and make space for joy in 2021.

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MARCH 25, 2025

The results challenge long-held assumptions about how early humans controlled tool shape and suggest that the differences in Levallois core designs may be more influenced by cultural traditions than previously thought​ Why Levallois Technology Matters Levallois technology represents a milestone in human cognitive and technological evolution.

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JANUARY 8, 2025

A recent study sheds new light on its human history, highlighting the deep impact of migrations from New Guinea into this region approximately 3,500 years ago. Challenges of Deciphering Human Migrations Studying Wallacea’s genetic history isn’t without its challenges. Human Biology , 83(4), 587–607. Kealy, S.,

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DECEMBER 13, 2024

The genetic legacy of Neanderthals persists in modern humans, with 1-2% of non-African genomes composed of Neanderthal DNA—a determination made through comprehensive sequencing and comparison of ancient and modern genomes. “These beneficial traits spread rapidly in early human populations.”

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OCTOBER 14, 2024

Archaeological discoveries in East Timor’s Laili rock shelter have unveiled evidence 1 of ancient human habitation dating back approximately 44,000 years. This finding, led by an international team of archaeologists, contributes significantly to understanding the migration and adaptation patterns of early humans in Southeast Asia.

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MAY 2, 2025

“The production technology of bone-tipped hunting weapons used by Neanderthals was in the nascent level in comparison to those used and introduced by modern humans,” — Golovanova et al., A clean fracture at high velocity—sharpened and reused until finally lost in the soil, waiting for another kind of hunter to find it.

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APRIL 28, 2025

Community colleges first started seeing bots managed by fraud rings invade classes around 2021. We didn’t use to have to decide if our students were human, they were all people. Related: Interested in innovations in higher education? Subscribe to our free biweekly higher education newsletter.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Hirsch, a professor emeritus of education and humanities at the University of Virginia, argues that democracy benefits when the citizenry shares a body of knowledge and history, which he calls cultural literacy. These ideas have revived interest in E.D. Hirschs Core Knowledge curriculum, which gained popularity in the late 1980s.

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APRIL 14, 2025

A chatbot could instantly write paragraphs and papers, a task once thought to be uniquely human. The scientists didnt actually read all 1,140,328 discussion-board submissions written by 16,791 students between the fall term of 2021 and the winter term of 2024. The public release of ChatGPT in November 2022 changed the world.

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MAY 1, 2025

Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past. But the genomic evidence from Picuris contradicts that narrative. Pueblo Bonito, the largest archaeological site at Chaco Culture National Historical Park, is seen in northwestern New Mexico, on Aug. Nature , 1–8. link] Reich, D. Prentice Hall.

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MAY 27, 2021

Addressing this in the classroom is important to make it visible and to help students process both history and what is currently happening.

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APRIL 7, 2025

The Dahwa cymbals not only enrich our comprehension of Bronze Age music but also illuminate the broader tapestry of human interaction and shared expression.​ ​ Further Reading and Related Studies Al-Jahwari, N. S., & Douglas, K. An Early Bronze Age Incense Burner from Dahwa (DH1), Northern al-Batinah, Oman. ResearchGate.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2024

That wasn’t the issue, says Ryan Page, director of child care for the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services. The idea to create a better statewide platform to aid families in finding care came out of recommendations released in fall 2021 from a task force created by Iowa Gov. The problem was families couldn’t see availability.

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AUGUST 25, 2021

18, 2021, in Brunswick, Maine. The American Rescue Plan in March 2021 created the $7.2 billion Emergency Broadband Benefit is part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, which provides broadband subsidies for individuals and families. Due to supply chain delays, the district finished distributing devices in January 2021.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Since the first eruption in March 2021, numerous fissures have opened across five locations, heavily affecting the town of Grindavík. A cross-posting from my Fieldnotes from Iceland blog. Discover the World has made available a new resource. Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula has awakened after more than 800 years.

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MARCH 6, 2025

Math literacy often contributes to economic success: A 2021 study of more than 5,500 adults found that participants made $4,062 more per year for each correct answer on an eight-question math test. Sherry Smith understands that kind of anxiety. She didn’t even want to step foot into a math class. I hated to disclose that to people.

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MARCH 13, 2025

Before the soft-footed, domesticated Felis catus found its way into Chinese homes, another feline species occupied human settlements for thousands of years. Their findings suggest that leopard cats filled the niche of rodent control in human settlements long before domesticated cats arrived. One possibility is their temperament.

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DECEMBER 16, 2021

For 12 months, Oli kept company with about 500,000 students from the high school class of 2021, more than half of them low-income, minorities, or aspiring first-generation college students. When it first texts a student, it identifies itself as a bot and explains how to reach out to a human if needed. To be clear, Oli is a robot.

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OCTOBER 5, 2023

In 2021, Canada’s leaders committed $30 billion (about $24 billion in U.S. Having women in positions of power — including Chrystia Freeland, the nation’s first female minister of finance — was crucial to ushering the proposed program through Parliament in 2021, experts say, despite continued opposition from some conservative lawmakers.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Source: “Nudging at scale: Experimental evidence from FAFSA completion campaigns,” March 2021 issue of Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. That often requires lots of human interaction and supportive relationships — things that don’t scale easily. Educators in this country could learn from that lesson.

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JULY 8, 2024

AI and humans scored essays differently by race and ethnicity “Diff” is the difference between the average score given by humans and GPT-4o in this experiment. Diff” adjusts this raw number for the randomness of human ratings. GPT-4o marked the essays almost a point lower than the humans did. for the humans.

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APRIL 19, 2023

Teaching, as human work, is to show the beauty and complexity of the human experience in our society. With my days long and rigid, this profession hasn’t given me the space to be a balanced, whole human. With my days long and rigid, this profession hasn’t given me the space to be a balanced, whole human. Parent concerns.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2025

137 ancient human genomes from across the Eurasian steppes." Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics, 19 , 263-289. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genom-083117-021749 Discusses how ancient DNA is reshaping our understanding of human migration and cultural change. Related Research de Barros Damgaard, P., Rasmussen, S.,

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 15, 2021

As we enter 2021, and what our partners at the UN SDG Action Campaign are calling a “turning point for people and our planet,” we are excited to announce the launch of a new round of MY World 360°. Immersive Stories Inspiring People Everywhere to Take Action.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

But as schools settled back into their usual rhythms in 2021-22, grades didn’t fall back to pre-pandemic norms and remained elevated. But college professors didn’t report a similar academic deterioration with their humanities students. It was a follow up to a 2022 report , which also detected grade inflation through 2021.

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JUNE 3, 2024

Researchers from the University of California, Irvine, and Arizona State University found that human feedback was generally a bit better than AI feedback, but AI was surprisingly good. Humans had a particular advantage in advising students on something to work on that would be appropriate for where they are in their development as a writer.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 16, 2025

For at least 10,000 years, humans have worked the land to feed families, build communities, and form civilizations. Human Nature , 29(3), 203–219. But the way those lands were used—how they were divided, worked, and governed—did more than sustain life. Nature , 551(7682), 619–622. link] Smith, M. Fochesato, M.,

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