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====DNA from cave dirt tells tale of how some Neanderthals disappeared | |||
[[Psychology]] | |||
===== ‘What should be taught in schools?’: the infamous ‘Scopes monkey trial’ turns 100 ===== | |||
[https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/jul/10/scopes-monkey-trial-100 by David Smith 10/7/25 The Guardian] | |||
Her great-grandfather was a doctor called to attend to the lawyer who put the case for creationism. Her great-grandmother was related to Charles Darwin. And now she works in the courthouse where the “trial of the century” – in which a high school teacher was accused of illegally teaching evolution – began exactly a century ago on Thursday. | |||
===== Scientists reconstruct 540 million years of sea level change in detail ===== | |||
[https://phys.org/news/2025-07-scientists-reconstruct-million-years-sea.amp by Utrecht University 8/7/25 PHYS ORG] | |||
Sea level on Earth has been rising and falling ever since there was water on the planet. Scientists were already able to use sediments and fossils to roughly reconstruct how sea levels changed over time steps of a million years or more. | |||
===== The oldest rocks on Earth are more than four billion years old ===== | |||
[https://theconversation.com/the-oldest-rocks-on-earth-are-more-than-four-billion-years-old-259657 by Hanika Rizo 6/7/25 THE CONVERSATION} | |||
Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name “Hadean” comes from the Greek god of the underworld, reflecting the extreme heat that likely characterized the planet at the time. | |||
===== US military cuts climate scientists off from vital satellite sea-ice data ===== | |||
[https://www.space.com/astronomy/earth/us-military-cuts-climate-scientists-off-from-vital-satellite-sea-ice-data by Keith Cooper 6/7/25 SPACE.com] | |||
Climate scientists in the United States are to be cut off from satellite data measuring the amount of sea ice — a sensitive barometer of climate change — as the U.S. Department of Defense announces plans to cancel processing of the data for scientific research. | |||
===== 'Never been found before’ – In one part of the world, the ocean is doing the opposite from everywhere else. Here’s why... ===== | |||
[https://www.discoverwildlife.com/environment/atlantic-blob by Melissa Hobson 7/7/25 DISCOVER WILDLIFE] | |||
Scientists have discovered a new factor that contributes to the so-called ‘cold blob’ – an unusual area of cooling waters in the Atlantic Ocean | |||
===== The ‘Great Dying’ wiped out 90% of life, then came 5 million years of lethal heat. New fossils explain why ===== | |||
[https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/02/climate/great-dying-extinction-tipping-point-tropical-forests by Laura Paddlson 2/7/25 CNN] | |||
A team of international researchers say they have now figured out why using a vast trove of fossils — and it all revolves around tropical forests. | |||
===== Ancient wooden tools show human ancestors ate their veggies ===== | |||
[https://www.science.org/content/article/ancient-wooden-tools-show-human-ancestors-ate-their-veggies by Andrew Curry 3/7/25 Science] | |||
Proponents of the “paleo diet” like to imagine the deep past as an all-meat barbecue buffet. And thus far, the kinds of tools dating to the dawn of humanity—countless stone blades and choppers, along with a few wooden spears and throwing sticks—seemed to support the idea of a pre-historic diet heavy on mammoth steaks. | |||
===== Perfect solar system' found in search for alien life ===== | |||
[https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67488931 by Pallab Ghosh 29/11/23 BBC] | |||
Researchers have located "the perfect solar system", forged without the violent collisions that made our own a hotchpotch of different-sized planets. | |||
===== Giganto, largest ever primate, died out due to diet change, say scientists ===== | |||
[https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/jan/10/giganto-largest-ever-primate-died-out-due-to-diet-change-say-scientists by Nicola Davis 10/1/24 The Guardian] | |||
Now researchers say the enormous ape was victim of an unfortunate choice of food when its preferred snacks became scarce. | |||
===== Researchers find 3-million-year-old tools in Kenya, showing development of human ancestors ===== | |||
[https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/researchers-find-ancient-tools-kenya/ by Kerry Breen 4/1/25 CBS NEWS] | |||
The Homa Peninsula, in Kenya, is part of the East African Rift Valley, a part of the world often called "the cradle of humankind." So many of the oldest clues about humanity's earliest days have been preserved under the valley's fertile, human soil, including the remains of "Lucy," an ancient human relative who lived more than 3 million years ago. | |||
===== Assyrian swimmers: 2,900-year-old carving of soldiers using inflatable goat skins to cross a river ===== | |||
[https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/assyrian-swimmers-2-900-year-old-carving-of-soldiers-using-inflatable-goat-skins-to-cross-a-river by Kristina Killgrove 23/6/25 LIVESCIENCE] | |||
This carved relief from Nimrud, a major city of the ancient Assyrian Empire in present-day Iraq, regularly drifts around the internet as purported evidence for scuba diving nearly 3,000 years ago. But the wall panel actually depicts an army crossing a river, and soldiers are navigating the waves with the help of ancient flotation devices. | |||
===== How huge migrating animal puppets captivate in ways that climate news can’t ===== | |||
[https://theconversation.com/how-huge-migrating-animal-puppets-captivate-in-ways-that-climate-news-cant-259592?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=The%20Conversation%20UK&utm_campaign=publer by Matt Smith 26/6/25 THE CONVERSATION] | |||
A herd of puppet animals is migrating north from Africa. This 12,000 mile journey represents wildlife’s response to the climate crisis as species are forced to move north due to rising temperatures. As The Herds travels through the UK en route to the Arctic, the organisers hope this artistic project will help spectators along the route understand what is happening to the environment. | |||
===== A Major Polling Company Is Throwing Its Weight Behind Huge Conspiracy Theories ===== | |||
[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rasmussen-reports-poll-conspiracy-theories-election-denialism-covid-vaccine_n_64b05d9fe4b093f07cada517 by Matt Shuham 14/7/23 HUFFPOST] | |||
The news from Rasmussen Reports, which was based on an unprecedented 1,001-person poll taken four months after the election, was the boldest claim yet from the pollster, heralding a miraculous supposed 92% turnout rate in the election — rather than the certified rate of 62.56%. | |||
===== Scientists say they’ve confirmed evidence that humans arrived in the Americas far earlier than previously thought ===== | |||
[https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/05/americas/ancient-footprints-first-americans-scn/index.html by Katie Hunt 5/10/23 CNN] | |||
When the discovery of fossilized footprints made in what’s now New Mexico was made public in 2021, it was a bombshell moment for archaeology, seemingly rewriting a chapter of the human story. Now new research is offering further evidence of their significance. | |||
===== 'Perfect solar system' found in search for alien life ===== | |||
[https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67488931 by Pallab Ghosh 29/11/23 BBC] | |||
The system, 100 light years away, has six planets, all about the same size. They've barely changed since its formation up to 12 billion years ago. | |||
===== The Role of Epistemic Trust in Vaccine Hesitancy and Conspiracy Thinking: Insights from New Research ===== | |||
[https://www.broadlyepi.com/emerging-study/the-role-of-epistemic-trust-in-vaccine-hesitancy-and-conspiracy-thinking-insights-from-new-research/ by Cod Micah 01/25 BROADLY EPI] | |||
Understanding the psychological factors that shape belief systems, trust in information, and susceptibility to misinformation has never been more critical. A groundbreaking study published in PLOS Global Public Health investigates how epistemic trust—a person’s readiness to regard information as significant and reliable—affects vaccine hesitancy, belief in conspiracy theories, and the ability to distinguish between real and fake news. | |||
===== Spear tips found in Idaho may be the oldest stone tools in America ===== | |||
[https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/12/27/2143592/-Spear-tips-found-at-Nez-Perce-village-site-are-the-oldest-known-stone-tools-in-the-Americas by skralyx 27/12/22 DAILY KOS] | |||
The earliest coherent story of this kind that we know of has been taking shape over the last couple of decades or so at a site in western Idaho called Nipéhe (Cooper's Ferry), and it’s finally been solidified by more-convincing dating. We learn from this dating that a group of migrants arrived about 16,000 years ago, prior to the opening of any ice-free corridor. They must have come down the coast, on the water for at least some of the trip, around the glaciers, then taken a left turn at the Columbia River, and come inland. | |||
===== Spear tips found in Idaho may be the oldest stone tools in America ===== | |||
[https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/12/27/2143592/-Spear-tips-found-at-Nez-Perce-village-site-are-the-oldest-known-stone-tools-in-the-Americas by skralyx 27/12/22 DAILY KOS] | |||
The earliest coherent story of this kind that we know of has been taking shape over the last couple of decades or so at a site in western Idaho called Nipéhe (Cooper's Ferry), and it’s finally been solidified by more-convincing dating. We learn from this dating that a group of migrants arrived about 16,000 years ago, prior to the opening of any ice-free corridor. They must have come down the coast, on the water for at least some of the trip, around the glaciers, then taken a left turn at the Columbia River, and come inland. | |||
===== Big oil is behind conspiracy to deceive public, first climate racketeering lawsuit says ===== | |||
[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/20/big-oil-is-behind-conspiracy-to-deceive-public-first-climate-racketeering-lawsuit-says by Nina Lakhani 20/12/22 The Guardian] | |||
“Puerto Rico is one of the most affected places by climate change in the world. It is so precariously positioned – they get hit on all fronts with hurricanes, storm surge, heat, coral bleaching – it’s the perfect place for this climate litigation,” said Melissa Sims, senior counsel for the plaintiffs’ law firm Milberg. | |||
=====Radiocarbon dating of artifacts and bones shows North American Indigenous population changes over 2,000 years===== | |||
[https://phys.org/news/2025-02-radiocarbon-dating-artifacts-bones-north.amp by Bob Yirka 2/03/2025 Phys.org] | |||
Looking at their maps and data, the researchers found that population growth and decline varied over time and area—some areas grew in population while others shrank. For example, the population of Cahokia, the largest known city in prehistoric North America, peaked around 1100 and then declined soon thereafter due to over-farming, hunting and climate change. By 1350, no one was left. | |||
The research team also found that the population of North America reached its maximum by approximately 1150—after that, there were ebbs and flows across the continent. The population was rebounding when the Europeans began arriving, but then began dropping soon thereafter and continued to crash over the following centuries. | |||
====DNA from cave dirt tells tale of how some Neanderthals disappeared==== | |||
[https://www.science.org/content/article/dna-cave-dirt-tells-tale-how-some-neanderthals-disappeared?utm_campaign=news_daily_2021-04-15&et_rid=35100799&et_cid=3736250&fbclid=IwAR3y5_DrNAhZIIqlrKAC4L8EQYQ52ltBloCpOE66ZBOSUeAwlyGwW4PSKYE by Ann Gibbons 4/15/21 Science Advisor] | [https://www.science.org/content/article/dna-cave-dirt-tells-tale-how-some-neanderthals-disappeared?utm_campaign=news_daily_2021-04-15&et_rid=35100799&et_cid=3736250&fbclid=IwAR3y5_DrNAhZIIqlrKAC4L8EQYQ52ltBloCpOE66ZBOSUeAwlyGwW4PSKYE by Ann Gibbons 4/15/21 Science Advisor] | ||
Estatuas cave in northern Spain was a hive of activity 105,000 years ago. Artifacts show its Neanderthal inhabitants hafted stone tools, butchered red deer, and may have made fires. They also shed, bled, and excreted subtler clues onto the cave floor: their own DNA. "You can imagine them sitting in the cave making tools, butchering animals. Maybe they cut themselves or their babies pooped," says population geneticist Benjamin Vernot, a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA), whose perspective may have been colored by his own baby's cries during a Zoom call. "All that DNA accumulates in the dirt floors."1 | Estatuas cave in northern Spain was a hive of activity 105,000 years ago. Artifacts show its Neanderthal inhabitants hafted stone tools, butchered red deer, and may have made fires. They also shed, bled, and excreted subtler clues onto the cave floor: their own DNA. "You can imagine them sitting in the cave making tools, butchering animals. Maybe they cut themselves or their babies pooped," says population geneticist Benjamin Vernot, a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA), whose perspective may have been colored by his own baby's cries during a Zoom call. "All that DNA accumulates in the dirt floors."1 | ||
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The Montana baby, known as the Anzick boy, belonged to a population known as the Southern Native Americans, who are most closely related to present-day Indigenous populations from South America. They split from Northern Native Americans, who are genetically closer to many contemporary groups in eastern North America, around 14,600–17,500 years ago. The common ancestor of these two groups split from East Asians some 25,000 years ago, scientists established this year by sequencing the genome of 11,500-year-old human remains from Alaska5. | The Montana baby, known as the Anzick boy, belonged to a population known as the Southern Native Americans, who are most closely related to present-day Indigenous populations from South America. They split from Northern Native Americans, who are genetically closer to many contemporary groups in eastern North America, around 14,600–17,500 years ago. The common ancestor of these two groups split from East Asians some 25,000 years ago, scientists established this year by sequencing the genome of 11,500-year-old human remains from Alaska5. | ||
[https://aeon.co/essays/heres-why-so-many-physicists-are-wrong-about-free-will?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=f3c1b9ca3d-briefing-dy-20200611&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-f3c1b9ca3d-42787455&fbclid=IwAR1KBeVsMlBynlA50E-XA5FtKsZzW1DYUu_ZgXjuCxQMQrw4eujn1f8KYK0 | =====Why So Many Physicists are Wrong About Free Will===== | ||
[https://aeon.co/essays/heres-why-so-many-physicists-are-wrong-about-free-will?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=f3c1b9ca3d-briefing-dy-20200611&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-f3c1b9ca3d-42787455&fbclid=IwAR1KBeVsMlBynlA50E-XA5FtKsZzW1DYUu_ZgXjuCxQMQrw4eujn1f8KYK0] | |||
=====Humans Domesticated Themselves New Genetic Evidence Suggests===== | |||
[https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/12/early-humans-domesticated-themselves-new-genetic-evidence-suggests] | |||
=====From chaos to free will===== | =====From chaos to free will===== | ||
