the rise of man

Prof. Yoel Rak. Courtesy of the Israeli National Academy of Sciences

"The diversity of human races also stems from aesthetic preferences"

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Says Prof. Yoel Rak, a member of the Academy of Sciences and one of the lecturers at the online conference "Origin of Homo Sapiens" which will be held on Darwin Day - 11/2 at Zoom. According to him, there are infinite races without a clear border
Experimental archaeology: a tuber cutting experiment using a small recycled spatter. Above on the right, the way the sprayer was held in the hand during the experiment (credit: Flavia Venditti)

Researchers have identified remains of animals and plants from hundreds of thousands of years ago on tiny flint vessels

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When man separated from his primate family, some DNA segments disappeared along the way. In the picture - a chimpanzee. Source: pixabay.

How losing important sections of DNA made us modern man

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From right to left: Prof. Zion Fahima, Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa Michal David, Department of AI Studies and Archaeology, Bar Ilan University Prof. Avraham Korul, Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa Prof. Ehud Weiss, Department of AI Studies and Archeology, Bar University Ilan Dr. Shariel Hovner, M.G.L., Tel Hai Academic College Dr. Uri Davidovitz, Institute of Archeology, Hebrew University. Photo: Yoni Reif, Bar-Ilan University Spokesperson

Barley domestication began in Israel in the Galilee region

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Comparison between modern man and Homo erectus. Illustration: shutterstock

The most invasive species

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Parable of the evolutionary tree. Illustration: shutterstock

Welcome to the family - making order in the evolutionary tree of the human family / Bernard Wood

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A new classification of the early human species. Skull no. 5 at the time of its discovery. Photo courtesy of the National Museum of Georgia

The skull in Georgia: a head is always a beginning

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A stranger in a strange land / Kate Wong

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Cave painting depicting a mammoth hunt. Photo: shutterstock.

The source of creativity / Heather Pringle

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Marie Leakey. From talkorigins

Mary Leakey in the footsteps of the ancient man - a hundred years since her birth

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Oldubai Gorge, Tanzania. Photo: Gail Ashley, Rutgers University

A frequently changing environment in East Africa accelerated human evolution

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A group of famous Americans of African descent. From Wikipedia

A mutation allowed the first humans to migrate within Africa

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Kenzi the bonobo makes stone tools. Photo: Elizabeth Rubert-Pugh - Great Ape Trust of Iowa/Bonobo Hope Sanctuary

Bonobos were able to communicate complex messages and use tools

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The wild bull - painting in Lescaux cave, France. From Wikipedia

Eating meat is responsible for the evolutionary success of the human race and the expansion of the world population

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Big brain: shutterstock illustration

Neuroscience - the limits of reason / Douglas Fox

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A chimpanzee uses a stick to pick fruit from distant branches. Public domain image from Wikipedia

Planet of the Apes: The apes are raised to think they are humans

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Frantisek Koepka, Anthropoids. 1902

A country haunted by demons 40: XNUMX% of Americans believe in creation according to Genesis

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This is according to a survey conducted by the Gallup company. However, the proportion of those who accept evolution without intervention has increased from 9% to 16% in the last thirty years. who is to blame? Humanist websites claim that the education system and the media succumbed to the pressure
The science system was able to predict that in the future we will be able to predict the future

Futurism - what's next?

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Yorkshire Terrier. From Wikipedia, where it was uploaded by the user Lilly M

The bachelor's best friend

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A fresco from Pompeii from the first century (now in the National Museum of Naples) shows Larix pulling an arrow from the leg of Aeneas while Aeneas' son - Lalulus Ascanius - cries next to his father. On the left - Anas's mother - the goddess Venus

Another word about altruism

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Agamemnon From Wikipedia

The Genetics of the Trojan War: On Sex, Free Will, and DNA

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A Tibetan village in the Himalayas. Painting: Nicholas Roerich

The power of evolution: an old-new race of humans in the mountains of Tibet?

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Neanderthal man - from Wikipedia, illustration from the 19th century Public domain image

who is who

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Neanderthal man - from Wikipedia, illustration from the 19th century Public domain image

Decoding the genome has yielded evidence of hybridization between Homo sapiens and Neanderthal man

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Relative

What can be learned from chimpanzees about human aggression

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Prof. Richard Wrangham, Harvard University. Photo: The university's public relations department

Cooking made us human

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Prof. Steve Weiner (seated second from the left) and Dr. Elisabetta Boerto (standing fourth from the left) with the international research team

Pottery was produced in China as early as 18,000 years ago

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Crawling baby. Illustration: shutterstock

Do babies have to crawl?

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Facial expressions

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

The beginning of consciousness

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

The Disappeared Neighbors: Neanderthal DNA and Us

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Human development and the grass plains

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Lucy in Bruges: the oldest fossil in the line of human evolution was discovered

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Will the winner be eaten by a sword?

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Man is allowed

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Human evolution continues

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A 47-million-year-old fossil may be the common ancestor (or common mother) of today's humans and apes

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feet on the ground

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Did a burst of gene duplication lead to human evolution?

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Did the control of fire allow early man to leave Africa?

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Tower of Babel of scientific language. Illustration: Weizmann Institute

The first word: the birth of the language and the pregnancy that preceded it

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

The human history of domestication of domestic animals

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Chapter one from the book One for All - facts and values ​​in the debate about the evolution of altruism

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Circumcision and sperm wars

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Mitochondrial DNA from a 38-year-old Neanderthal is deciphered

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Technion, Rambam and Gothenburg University researchers have identified a mechanism that explains about half of the occurrences of a low floor

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Discovery: For about 100 thousand years the human race was split in two

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Galileo/the talking monkey

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The future of evolution - is there anything good in all this?

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Just because you have a head the size of a grapefruit doesn't mean you're not human

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