MU-Peter Shimon 🀄️ / is on Nostr

Disruptive Digital Darwinist
#Neanderthal is in my DNA!
#Evolution #PaleoAnth #EvoMed #OpenScience
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2025-02-21 18:30:14

Origin of funerary practices has important implications
Pluridisciplinary evidence for burial for the La Ferrassie 8 Neandertal child
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-77611-z
A detailed multidisciplinary approach is essential to advance understanding of Neanderthal behavior, including funerary practices.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/114/043/230/965/642/341/original/e2a70d4fbc657a05.webp

2025-02-21 17:30:21

Ancient DNA from people who lived in Europe between 1700 and 45,000 years ago suggests that 63 per cent of them had dark skin and 8 per cent had pale skin, with the rest somewhere in between.
Inference of human pigmentation from ancient DNA by genotype likelihood
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.29.635495v2.full
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/114/042/979/584/130/392/original/f7ee712ed78d3258.jpg

2025-02-21 17:00:21

What Color Eyes, Hair, And Skin Did Neanderthals Have?
We used to think they were redheads, but was that just a pigment of our imagination?
https://www.iflscience.com/what-color-eyes-hair-and-skin-did-neanderthals-have-77919
In reality, most traits are polygenetic, multiple genes working together in subtle and complicated ways.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/114/042/843/115/679/807/original/44a841c3deab40dd.webp

2025-02-21 16:30:08

Semicircular canals shed light on bottleneck events in the evolution of the Neanderthal clade
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-56155-8
Argues there was a significant reduction in disparity after the start of Marine Isotope Stage 5 and this supports the hypothesis of a late bottleneck.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/114/042/777/095/172/937/original/ad4301eae7096e32.webp
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/114/042/780/473/094/579/original/5e08d4c4c5ed9e07.webp

2024-07-24 16:04:37

#Mtoto
Earliest known human burial in Africa
María Martinón-Torres Torres, JM Bermudez de Castro, Katerina Douka , Michael Petraglia, wt al .
A partial skeleton of an ~2.5- to 3.0-year-old child dating to 78.3 ± 4.1 Kya, which was recovered in the MSA layers of Panga ya Saidi. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03457-8
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/112/842/265/877/300/676/original/c7bb243a36216e00.jpg

2024-06-14 15:30:08

This argues Neanderthals "probably didn't use metaphors"...
Interesting idea. I disagree with some things here, skeptical of a few other things.
How Neanderthal language differed from modern human – they probably didn’t use metaphors
https://theconversation.com/how-neanderthal-language-differed-from-modern-human-they-probably-didnt-use-metaphors-229942
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2023-06-25 17:20:08

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@npub1u88…x64v
Ahem... They had pretty sophisticated tech.
https://mas.to/@MU_Peter/110594253332789564

2023-06-25 16:49:23

Neanderthals weren’t dumb cavemen.
In lots of ways, they were just like us
#shorts @npub1dz0…898e
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/t7T9N4X7S-0