MU_Peter

MU_Peter, 10 days ago to random

Humans first set foot on Sahul around 75,000 years ago.

Fresh perspective on environments inhabited by the first hunter-gatherer communities as they traversed Sahul.

Physiography, foraging mobility, and the first peopling of Sahul
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47662-1

Characterising migratory patterns from two-state Lévy-like walkers.

MU_Peter, 14 days ago to random

☀️Good morning!

Nature's blend...
Arabica coffee plant may have evolved between 600K and 1 mya after 2 other species crossbred

2 plants randomly mated up to 1 million years ago to give rise to one of the world's most popular drinks
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/plants/2-plants-randomly-mated-up-to-1-million-years-ago-to-give-rise-to-one-of-the-worlds-most-popular-drinks

MU_Peter, 17 days ago to random

Geochemical provenancing and direct dating of the Harbin archaic human cranium
Qingfeng Shao Chris Stringer et al
https://www.cell.com/the-innovation/fulltext/S2666-6758(21)00056-4

Uranium-series disequilibrium dating directly on the cranium suggests the cranium is older than 146 thousand years.

MU_Peter, 17 days ago to random

Cave Hosted Humans For 7,000 Years

First evidence for human occupation of a lava tube in Arabia:
The archaeology of Umm Jirsan Cave and its surroundings, northern Saudi Arabia

Mathew Stewart @EleanorScerri MDPetraglia Huw Groucutt et al
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0299292

MU_Peter, 17 days ago to random

Little is known about Pleistocene human occupation of north-eastern Africa outside the Nile Valley and desert oases.

Raw-material exploitation in the Earlier and Middle Stone Age in the Eastern Desert of Egypt: evidence from Wadi Abu Subeira

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/rawmaterial-exploitation-in-the-earlier-and-middle-stone-age-in-the-eastern-desert-of-egypt-evidence-from-wadi-abu-subeira/1770ECBA876A7112663EF0198A344A65

MU_Peter, 17 days ago to random

☀️ Good morning!

Still trying to roll out of bed?

MU_Peter, 21 days ago to food

#Lunch
A strong correlation between diet and brain health.

Enhanced cognitive functions and increased grey matter.

Associations of dietary patterns with brain health from behavioral, neuroimaging, biochemical and genetic analyses
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44220-024-00226-0

MU_Peter, 28 days ago to random

OMG...
Apparently, #NationalHighFiveDay is an actual thing...

MU_Peter, 29 days ago to random

Predictions are considered important features in sensory perception

Sense of Smell Relies on Predictive Coding More Than Vision

Olfactory categorization is shaped by a transmodal cortical network for evaluating perceptual predictions
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2024/03/29/JNEUROSCI.1232-23.2024

MU_Peter, 29 days ago to random

Cell-type-resolved somatic mosaicism can uncover lineage relationships governing the development of the human forebrain.

Cell-type-resolved mosaicism reveals clonal dynamics of the human forebrain
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07292-5

MU_Peter, 29 days ago to random

Identifying the Last Universal Common Ancestor′s protein domains resolves the order in which the amino acids were recruited into the genetic code
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.13.589375v1

Resolves the order in which the amino acids were recruited into the genetic code

MU_Peter, 1 month ago to random

The first account of the presence of Pleistocene hominins in Eyvanekey, Semnan Province

Evidence of Pleistocene hominin landscapes in Eyvanekey, Iran, and implications for the Northern Dispersal Corridor
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/evidence-of-pleistocene-hominin-landscapes-in-eyvanekey-iran-and-implications-for-the-northern-dispersal-corridor/79F83AB0A4EC9C7C417BAE7EBDD15619

MU_Peter, 1 month ago to random

Microplastics present in archaeological sediment.

MPs may impact scientific value and preservation of deposits

The contamination of in situ archaeological remains:
A pilot analysis of microplastics in sediment samples using μFTIR
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969724000755

MU_Peter, 1 month ago to random

OBITUARY

Frans de Waal (1948–2024)
Primatologist who questioned the uniqueness of human minds
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01071-y

Researcher and prolific science communicator who laid bare the social lives of apes.

MU_Peter, 1 month ago to random

Look and listen!

Toothed whale echolocation organs evolved from jaw muscles

A tradeoff evolution between acoustic fat bodies and skull muscles in toothed whales
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378111924000489

A close evolutionary relationship was identified between acoustic fat bodies and muscles.

MU_Peter, 1 month ago to random

☀️😎
Witness one of the most profoundly beautiful events in nature.

The 2024 total solar eclipse is a once-in-a-life-time event you’ll never forget.

11 reasons why April’s total solar eclipse will be the cosmic event of the century
https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/why-2024-total-solar-eclipse-is-so-incredible

MU_Peter, 1 month ago to random

“The evidence supports the idea that Denisovans were members of Homo longi but we are still short of absolute proof. Nevertheless, that will come with time, I believe.”
Chris Stringer

Scientists link elusive human group to 150,000-year-old Chinese ‘dragon man’
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/mar/30/scientists-link-elusive-human-group-to-150000-year-old-chinese-dragon-man

MU_Peter, 1 month ago to random

It is probably the most important question that can be asked about human evolution.

How and why is Homo sapiens so successful?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950236524000045#fig0005

The obvious question to ask is how, and why did this extraordinary success happen?

MU_Peter, 1 month ago to random

A geographic history of human genetic ancestry
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.27.586858v1

A method inferring the geographic history of genetic ancestry of a set of human genomes sampled from Europe, Asia, and Africa

MU_Peter, 1 month ago to random

☀️ Good morning!

MU_Peter, 1 month ago to random

What’s So Bad About Asking Where Humans Came From?
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/05/human-origins-invention-of-prehistory-book-review/677842/

Book Review of
"The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession With Human Origins" by Stefanos Geroulanos

👎 Spoiler: It kind of sucks

MU_Peter, 1 month ago to random

The wooden artifacts from Schöningen’s Spear Horizon and their place in human evolution
Dirk Leder @annemiekemilks et al
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2320484121

Insights into woodworking techniques, tool design, use, re-working, and human behavior with wooden artifacts.

MU_Peter, 1 month ago to random

👇 This...

Anthropologists take up arms against ‘race science’
https://www.science.org/content/article/anthropologists-take-arms-against-race-science

At their annual meeting, biological anthropologists began to build a playbook to thwart racist misuse of research

MU_Peter, 1 month ago to random

Study traces the roots of longstanding cultural interactions across the Tibetan Plateau to prehistoric times

Geospatial modelling of farmer–herder interactions maps cultural geography of Bronze and Iron Age Tibet, 3600–2200 BP
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-50556-9

MU_Peter, 1 month ago to random

Elevated genetic risk for multiple sclerosis emerged in steppe pastoralist populations
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06618-z

Highlights the critical importance of the Neolithic period and Bronze Age as determinants of modern immune responses