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Candela Hernández
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Biological Anthropology | Human Population Genetics 🧬
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When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.

Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.

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Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning
Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when
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October 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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🧬 The MOOC “Human Population and Evolutionary Genetics” starts on October 14th!

👉 bit.ly/4fw3Zje

💀🌍 Where do we come from? What was the migration history of our species? What role does the Neanderthal genome play in our genetic heritage? How has our species adapted to different environments?
October 6, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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As we mourn Jane Goodall, this @nature.com article explores three ways in which she changed science:

1. Altering the way we view both other primates and ourselves
2. Inspiring generations of women scientists
3. Communicating science in a way that engaged the public

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science
The primatologist challenged what it meant to be a scientist.
www.nature.com
October 2, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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The phylogenetic position of the Yunxian cranium elucidates the origin of Homo longi and the Denisovans | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The phylogenetic position of the Yunxian cranium elucidates the origin of Homo longi and the Denisovans
Diverse forms of Homo coexisted during the Middle Pleistocene. Whether these fossil humans represent different species or clades is debated. The ~1-million-year-old Yunxian 2 fossil from China is impo...
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September 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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I want to start a new global movement:
Meetless Monday - we encourages people to reduce their meeting activity by one day each week for personal health and the planet's well-being.
September 10, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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La historia de cómo secuenciamos los mamtus 🦣 más tropicales 🏝️ secuenciados al momento la pueden leer aquí 👇https://shorturl.at/KE6Ux. Redactadó por el gran @rpocisv.bsky.social. Muchas gracias Rodrigo por cubrir con tanto entusiasmo la nota sobre nuestro trabajo.
Mammoths in Mexico? Huge bone trove reveals giant beasts thrived in warmth, too
Fossils found while building airport contain first mammoth DNA from tropical location
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August 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Accepted manuscript 📃
'Further insights into maternal and paternal human histories in southern Iberia' | Evolutionary Human Sciences

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Further insights into maternal and paternal human histories in southern Iberia | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core
Further insights into maternal and paternal human histories in southern Iberia
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July 7, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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AI meets archaeology: AutArch turns thousands of legacy grave and artifact drawings into measurable, searchable data. The past just got easier to read. #Archaeology #DigitalHumanities #AItools #GraveAnalysis #OpenScience #Anthropology
How AI is Decoding Centuries of Archaeological Data
A new digital workflow promises to bridge the gap between the analog past and the digital present
www.anthropology.net
June 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Humans may have been making tools from whale bones up to 20,000 years ago, according to evidence presented in Nature Communications. go.nature.com/4kePeD6 🏺 🧪
May 27, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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How far back was our common ancestor with Neanderthals and Denisovans? [full disclosure - we dont actually know!] youtu.be/MA1cHPJPZfM
Our common Neanderthal ancestor could be a million years old, says Chris Stringer
YouTube video by New Scientist
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May 17, 2025 at 11:00 AM