Anthropology.net

APRIL 19, 2025

In the vast timeline of human evolution, one question has nagged at researchers more than most: how did cooperation, a risky and often costly behavior, come to define Homo sapiens ? A recent study out of the University of Tsukuba offers an unexpected answer. It wasn't stability, safety, or predictability that shaped our social instincts—it was the opposite.

Humanities 74

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Moler's Musing

APRIL 19, 2025

Ive been on several interviews the last few years. Am I a good interviewer? No. I try to be humble. I try not to talk about Teacher of the Year. I try not to bring up the book I co-authored. I try to be genuine. I try to be modest. I try to just be me. And sometimes that works against me. Through some conversations, Ive learned two things about why some of those interviews havent gone my way: Im either seen as too out of the box or they assume Ill leave for something bigger and better.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 19, 2025

In a limestone cavern carved into the flanks of the Lesser Caucasus Mountains, archaeologists recently recovered an object no larger than a matchstick—yet carrying profound implications. Found amid layers of Mesolithic debris in Damjili Cave, Azerbaijan, this human figurine—crafted from sandstone with a striped belt and stylized coiffure—offers a rare glimpse into the symbolic world of hunter-gatherers teetering on the cusp of the Neolithic.

Humanities 73

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 19, 2025

Tombs Without Thrones High on the grassy ridgelines of Neolithic Ireland, where fog slips across stone like whispered memory, early farmers raised monuments that still loom over the living. Passage tombs like Newgrange and Knowth, older than the pyramids, have long been cast as the burial vaults of prehistoric kings and queens. But new genetic evidence is unsettling that tale.

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