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Seth Chagi (World of Paleoanthropology🏺)
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Fighting for #Science and #STEM!

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Father, Husband, Stoic, Animist, Paleoanthropologist, STEAM, Science Communicator, Book Lover, FUCK TRUMP!
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New Paleo Post episode just dropped:
Neanderthal Art? The Missing Record

youtu.be/dPfS0rcxtUg

We dig into ochre, engravings, ornaments, and what they might tell us about Neanderthal minds.

👉 What’s the artifact or clue that convinces YOU Neanderthals had symbolic thought?
Neanderthal Art? The Missing Record
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How did fatherhood shape humanity? 👨‍👧
Dr. Sarah Blaffer Hrdy dives deep into evolution, empathy, and the science of why dads matter more than we think.
🎧 Watch now: youtu.be/daeJozSFZYw
#Fatherhood #Evolution #Anthropology #Podcast
How Shared Caregiving Shaped Human Evolution
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November 6, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Who’s your favorite hominin & why? Examples: A. afarensis (bipedal), H. habilis (OH 7), H. erectus (Acheulean), H. neanderthalensis (Ice Age kin). Source: Stringer 2016: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #PaleoPost #HumanOrigins #FossilFriday
December 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Not every deep-history story is about progress.

👉 What do you think happened when early humans couldn’t all move together?

#WOPA #DeepHistory #HumanOrigins #Anthropology
December 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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An excellent, albeit dated documentary on a little known aspect of #Archaeology and #Prehistory!

#Archeoacoustics!

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SECRETS OF THE DEAD : SOUNDS OF THE STONE AGE (Channel 4, 2001)
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December 26, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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I think we moved past this too quickly: researchers can’t remove this Neanderthal from the ground without destroying it, so they sent a camera into the nasal cavity instead. And they found that nose doesn't seem cold-adapted after all. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s... 🏺
Neanderthal skull partially encased in thick, knobby mineral deposits, beige and cream calcite covering much of the bone surface. The eye sockets, nasal opening, and brow ridge remain visible.
December 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Did multiple human species make that first journey out of Africa? A new look at Dmanisi teeth suggests there may be more than one species in Georgia, but the ongoing debate feels far from over...
www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/12/h... 🏺🧪
Homo erectus did not leave Africa alone 1.8 million years ago: fossils found in Georgia may belong to two distinct human species
In the foothills of the Caucasus, at the Georgian site of Dmanisi, lie the remains of some of the first hominins who ventured out of the African continent dating back 1.8 million years. For decades, t...
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December 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Con Moong Cave, Vietnam, has evidence of ash, burials, and shell middens from the terminal Pleistocene. Even earlier—by 42,000 years ago—people used the cave, alternating with periods when bats were present and humans absent, evidenced by sediment geochemistry.

Photo: Thanh Hoa Newspaper
Large entryway of a cave with metal stairs and green cave walls
December 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Fire wasn’t just for warmth. In southern Africa, early Homo sapiens deliberately heat-treated stone to improve flaking quality—revealing deep technical knowledge, planning, and control over materials long before agriculture or cities.

Paper:
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December 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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The emergence of Homo erectus was complicated. thedebrief.org/1-5-million-... 🏺🧪
1.5-million-year-old Skull Reveals Homo erectus Did Not Evolve the Way Scientists Thought
A 1.5-million-year-old skull suggests Homo erectus evolved through a messy transition, with multiple human forms coexisting.
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December 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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A wonderful roundup of this year's most exciting discoveries: scicomm.plos.org/2025/12/19/t... 🏺
Top Stories in Human Evolution of 2025 - PLOS SciComm
By Ryan McRae and Briana Pobiner 2025 has been quite the wild year! With more exciting stories in human evolution than we…
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December 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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One hundred and one years ago today, a young Australian anatomist worked with knitting needles to chip the hard rock from the face of a 3-million-year-old child. Together they placed human ancestry in Africa, as Charles Darwin had predicted fifty years before.

www.johnhawks.net/p/the-circum...
The circumstances of the Taung discovery
The textbook story of the fossil leaves out a wider context in which scientists interpreted the first evidence of Australopithecus.
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December 23, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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At some point, humans stopped asking how…
and started asking why.

👉 What do you think the first “why” was about?

#WOPA #DeepHistory #HumanOrigins #Anthropology
December 23, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Careful burial isn’t accidental. A young child interred at Panga ya Saidi, Kenya, shows intentional positioning and grave preparation—evidence that early Homo sapiens engaged with death, memory, and care far deeper than survival alone.

Paper:
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December 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Before laws or writing, humans made promises.

👉 What do you think the FIRST human promise was about?

#WOPA #DeepHistory #HumanOrigins #Anthropology
December 22, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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The solstice has always mattered, more to our ancient ancestors than to most of us today. I always wonder when I am under dark skies what wisdom they had that we may have forgotten.

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When did our ancestors start looking up to the stars?
Changes in the sky have been important to peoples throughout the world. That connection may go back much further than our species.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Half a million years ago, early Africans were already engineering composite hunting weapons. Stone points from Ethiopia show the earliest known stone-tipped spears—deep planning, skill, and cooperation long before Homo sapiens.

Paper:
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December 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Gloves off, Congress. These people are breaking the law. They are brazenly defying the spirit and intent of the Epstein Transparency Act.
December 21, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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December 21, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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A little known fact is that it also happens to be bigger in terms of land mass.
December 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Many Pages In The Files.......
December 21, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Since his appointment, RFK Jr. has pursued a brutal vision of American health that several experts liken to a sort of eugenics. Kennedy has made it clear that certain deaths are acceptable or even preferable to a world where every child is vaccinated.

Read more: www.theverge.com/health/66136...
Verge headline: Death is the Policy 2025 Year in review Photo illustration depicts RFK Jr surrounded by disease particles
December 20, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Long nights lead up to winter solstice. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
North East and Cumbria in pictures ahead of winter solstice
You share your photos of north-east England and Cumbria ahead of the winter solstice.
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December 21, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Before schools or language, knowledge passed like this.

👉 What do you think was the FIRST thing humans taught their children?

#WOPA #DeepHistory #HumanOrigins #Anthropology
December 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Stone tools didn’t start with Homo.
At Lomekwi 3 (Kenya), deliberately flaked stone tools dated to ~3.3 million years ago push toolmaking deep into early hominin evolution.
www.nature.com/articles/nat...

#HumanOrigins #Paleoanthropology #StoneTools
December 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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The Yarımburgaz cave complex is around 22 km west of Istanbul, in the Thracian part of Turkey. An upper cave is the location of a Byzantine church, while a lower chamber has much older Middle Pleistocene record of choppers, modified flake tools, and remains of cave bears.

Photo: CeeGee (Wikipedia)
Cave opening in a rocky slope
December 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM