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A Forgotten Chapter in Human Evolution: The Hidden Ancestry of Modern Humans

Anthropology.net

For decades, the story of modern human origins seemed relatively straightforward: Homo sapiens emerged in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago, evolving as a single, continuous lineage before expanding across the globe. But new research suggests that this narrative is missing an entire chapter.

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When Did Humans First Make Stone Tools? New Research Suggests They Didn’t—At First

Anthropology.net

For decades, archaeologists have puzzled over one of humanity’s most crucial technological leaps—when and how early humans began making sharp stone tools. These early humans may have used these naturally occurring cutting tools long before they figured out how to produce them deliberately. DOI: 10.1111/arcm.13075

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A researcher said the evidence on special education inclusion is flawed. Readers weighed in

The Hechinger Report

The director of education at the Learning Disabilities Association of America weighed in, as did the commissioner of special education research at the U.S. We are always working towards supporting peoples understanding of inclusion as a human right and not as an intervention or variable in a research study. Taylor emailed me.

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22,000-Year-Old Footprints Reveal the Earliest Evidence of Human Transport Technology

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The Footprints That Rewrite History In the shifting gypsum sands of White Sands National Park in New Mexico, a series of fossilized human footprints have surfaced, casting a striking new light on the ingenuity of Ice Age inhabitants. Bennett of Bournemouth University. What Else Could Have Made These Marks?

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The Emic Perspective of Generative AI

Teaching Anthropology

While AI has simply not been in the hands of students long enough to have longitudinal data on its impacts, there is a growing slew of research that touts it as a learning tool for non-traditional students (such as Dai et al., 2023, and Ouyang et al., Chan & Hu, 2023), but no detailed ethnographic work.) 2022, among many).

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Mapping Ancient Emotions: How Mesopotamians Felt and Expressed Their Feelings in the Body

Anthropology.net

But how did ancient humans experience and describe these feelings? By analyzing one million words of Akkadian cuneiform, researchers unearthed fascinating connections between emotional states and specific body parts, offering fresh insights into human emotional experience through time.

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International students may be among the biggest early beneficiaries of ChatGPT

The Hechinger Report

A chatbot could instantly write paragraphs and papers, a task once thought to be uniquely human. The researchers were able to gain access to all the online discussion board comments submitted by college students at an unidentified large public university before and after ChatGPT to compare how student writing quality changed.