What's new in Human Evolution?

I love teaching human evolution. Every year there is more and new information. I recently found this article in Forbes* about how the Hobbits may have been shorter than we thought. What new articles/topics are you reading about?

* Forbes has a weird pay wall. I pasted the article into a google doc and ran in through AI to get some lower reading level versions.

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0 Donnetta Elsasser over 1 year ago

Hey Chris Scaturo ,

This is not "new" but it is an interesting turning point in human evolution. I think everyone should work it into this time period.

How cooking food was pivotal to human evolution

This is a link to a Scientific American article. Once humans learned to control fire and cook food, they could eat food more easily, waste less energy chewing, and absorb more nutrients. Bigger, stronger, faster, brains... a mini threshold.
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0 Donnetta Elsasser over 1 year ago

Hey Chris Scaturo ,

This is not "new" but it is an interesting turning point in human evolution. I think everyone should work it into this time period.

How cooking food was pivotal to human evolution

This is a link to a Scientific American article. Once humans learned to control fire and cook food, they could eat food more easily, waste less energy chewing, and absorb more nutrients. Bigger, stronger, faster, brains... a mini threshold.
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