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Evolution - the rise of man

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The mystery of the prehistoric quarrying sites has been solved: the connection between man, the elephant and the source of water

Why did the ancient man return again and again, over hundreds of thousands of years, to the same quarry sites? It turns out that the secret lies in the migration routes of the elephants
A family of chimpanzees. lost the tail Illustration: depositphotos.com

Why did we lose the tail?

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The loss of the tail occurred about 25 million years ago, when the lineage of humans and great apes split from that of the ancient apes. The researchers identified the insertion of a specific AluY element into the intron of the TBXT gene as a key event that could explain the loss of the tail
New research shows great apes have an extraordinary social memory, recognizing former group members even after more than 25 years. This finding, which indicates a significant cognitive similarity between great apes and humans, emphasizes the depth and duration of social ties in our animal relatives. The study found the longest-lasting non-human social memories ever recorded. Photo: Johns Hopkins University

Eternal bonds: Great apes exhibit remarkable memory for their long-lost friends

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Great apes recognize pictures of group members they haven't seen in more than 25 years and respond more enthusiastically to pictures of their friends, new research suggests
The Homo erectus tribe participates in the hunt. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Continuing the Tracing of Human Descent: The Impact of Climate on Out-of-Africa Migration

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Sediment studies in the Mediterranean reveal the existence of a green corridor in the Sahara desert that emerged at the exact time when our ancestors migrated from Africa about 2.1 million years ago
Reconstruction of a Neanderthal family in the Neanderthal Museum in Croatia. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The encounter between Neanderthals and modern man as told by their genomes

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Capsule secret. Illustration: depositphotos.com

What does our voice say?

On the way in which vocal expressions can convey emotional information, especially in powerful experiences, and on the importance of the visual context
The gorilla Leah. Photo: Tivor Yeager, courtesy of the Safari

The evolution of facial expressions

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The primitive facial architecture of the gorilla as a key to understanding human facial expressions
The famous prehistoric rock paintings of Tsili N'Air, Algeria. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The evolutionary changes following the extinction of the large animals

The need to hunt small animals caused prehistoric man to improve his mental abilities in order to perfect his hunting tools
Flint vessels from periods that go back to the settlement of Homo erectus at the site of the Bnot Ya'akov Bridge over 600 thousand years ago. Courtesy of the researchers

Time travel following the travels of early man

The people who lived in the Hula valley hundreds of thousands of years ago made long journeys to obtain quality raw material for the production of hand stones

חולטה-השולל בהישולל בהישורים, the true reason for ליירירי הדיור ושיטה הגאוניט ההופקת את מעציעה השולל לעבדים מודריםים

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Chapter nine from the book: "The Free Man - Evolutionary Psychology, Brain Research and Understanding the Mind"
One of the sons of the Nama. Photo from Wikipedia

New DNA research changes the origin of the human race

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A new model of human evolution suggests that Homo sapiens arose from many closely related populations rather than from a single group
Using meticulous and detailed collection methods, a research team led by the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities was able to place the remains of fossilized apes, such as Morotopithecus, within detailed reconstructions of habitats. Credit: Corbin Rainbolt

Rewriting human evolution: Great apes lived in open habitats 10 million years earlier than expected

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Using rigorous and detailed collection methods, the researchers were able to place the remains of fossilized apes, such as Morotopithecus, in detailed reconstructions of habitats. Credit: Corbin Rainbolt
Illustration - Exploitation of a large-headed midge. Credit - Tel Aviv University

The earliest evidence of giant fish being cooked by early man has been uncovered, about 780,000 years ago

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This is the earliest evidence of self-initiated cooking with fire. A global breakthrough by the Hebrew Universities, Bar Ilan and Tel Aviv in collaboration with Oranim College and the Sea and Lake Research Institute
Prof. Dori Derdikman from the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion. Photo: Nitzan Zohar - Technion Spokesperson

The brain mechanisms behind territorial behavior -

An international study with the participation of researchers from the Technion and the Hebrew University won the prestigious ERC Synergy Grant
Grandma spends time with the grandchildren. Image: depositphotos.com

Things Yoram knows: the grandmother's riddle

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Following on from Judith's question about the longevity of women compared to men, Nir asks what is the evolutionary logic in living long after the period of fertility has ended?
Figure 3. Pabo's discoveries provided important information regarding the population of the world at the time Homo sapiens migrated out of Africa and spread to the rest of the world. Neanderthals lived in western Eurasia while Denisovans lived in eastern Eurasia. Breeding between the different species occurred when the Homo sapiens spread across the continent, leaving behind treasured remains in DNA. Illustration from the explanation for the 2022 Nobel Prize for Medicine. From the Nobel Prize website

Nobel Prize for Medicine to the Swede Svante Pavo, the discoverer of the Denisovan man and the decipherer of the genome of extinct human species

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Santa Febo is a Swedish evolutionary geneticist, one of the founding fathers of the field of paleogenetics, leader of the international project to map the Neanderthal human genome, and co-discoverer of Denisovan man
To suffer in the name of religion: commemoration of "Good Friday" (the day of Jesus' crucifixion) in the Philippines, 2019. Image: depositphotos.com

Good by nature 5: How we will win the race to morality (last chapter)

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266D digital models of the three limb bones of TM XNUMX attributed to Sahelanthropus tchadensis (left, femur in posterior and medial view; right, both ulnae in anterior and lateral view). Franck Guy/CNRS/Université de Poitiers/MPFT, Fourni par l'auteur

Humanoid species stood on two legs already 7 million years ago

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Contrary to the prevailing assumption until now, a team of researchers from France and Chad discovered that walking on two feet does not characterize only Homo sapiens and may have evolved several times. several times and gradually
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Good by nature 4: The big lie of "all-out war"

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Why do we think our nature is so bad? Why do we believe that constant warfare is a basic human drive?
Understand each other without words (illustration). Image: depositphotos.com

Good by nature 3: All rights reserved to Teva

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In this chapter we will examine whether social morality is a product of religions, or a universal biological trait that preceded cultures and religions? And how humanity can unite in times of emergency
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Things that Yoram knows: Is man cruel by nature?

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Yaniv wonders about human nature: "Why did the word humane take on the meaning of human love, tolerance, patience, etc., are wars, death, cruelty and oppression of the weak less humane?" Yaniv wonders about human nature: "Why did the word humane take on the meaning of human love, tolerance, patience, etc. ', are wars, death, cruelty and oppression of the weak less human?"
Flint vessels found in excavations at the Evron quarry. Photo: Zana Stepka

Rare evidence of the use of fire more than 800 years ago was uncovered at an archaeological site in the Galilee

The findings obtained through an innovative method based on artificial intelligence are some of the earliest evidence of the use of fire in Israel and in the world
Avraham holds his son Yitzchak, who was born a year after the visit of the "angels". Illustration: depositphotos.com

Things that Yoram knows: when did our ancestors discover the facts of life?

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The matriarchal society of the ancient man thrived precisely because of the ignorance of the connection between sex and pregnancy and childbirth, this has changed in the last 8,000 years
Close-up of a tooth of a Denisovan girl. Credit: Fabrice Demeter (University of Copenhagen/CNRS Paris)

An Ancient Tooth of a Girl Discovered in a Cave Cracks the Mystery of Denisovan Man, a Brother Race of Modern Man

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Denisovan man, a sister race of modern man, lived in Laos 164,000 to 131,000 years ago with important implications for populations outside of Africa and Australia
chin. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Things Yorami know: What is the function of the chin?

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David shares the question and the idea: Homo sapiens is the only species that has a chin and science has no explanation as to what the evolutionary advantage of such a "facility" is and how it works.
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