And here come India and Pakistan to the stage of hatred and destruction. Well done humanity, well done. Evolution of humanity my ass. We haven’t progressed a nanometer during our time on earth. We are just as degenerative as before. We just found 1000 more different ways to be complete assholes towards each other.

cwnbr

@consciousliving

Here is a list with all our Vimeo recordings for last term (Jan-Mar 2025)
Enjoy!

Perspectives on human origins: language, body art, hunting, architecture

Jan 14 Chris Knight and Jerome Lewis 'When Eve Laughed'
https://vimeo.com/1047955270

Jan 21 Camilla Power 'Neanderthals, Homo sapiens and the ‘Human Revolution’'
https://vimeo.com/1050011589

Jan 28 Annemieke Milks
'Hunting lessons: how forager kids learn(ed) to hunt'
https://vimeo.com/1053040279?share=copy

Feb 4 Paulina Michnowska 'Notes from the forest – storytelling with the Penan of Borneo'
https://vimeo.com/1055179553

Feb 11 Sasha Farnsworth 'Architecture meets anthropology: Womb temple – Lunar rebirth'
https://vimeo.com/1057043706?share=copy#t=0

Feb 18 Chris Knight 'How we got stuck: the hunter Monmaneki and his wives teach Graeber and Wengrow a lesson'
https://vimeo.com/1061208125?utm_source=email&utm_medium=vimeo-email&utm_campaign=44349

Feb 25 Erica Lagalisse and Chris Knight in conversation 'On anarchist anthropology'
https://vimeo.com/1063172694?share=copy

Mar 4 Christine Binnie
'Neonaturist body painting: a red RAG to patriarchy'
https://vimeo.com/1074465398

Mar 11 Chris Knight 'On Women and Jaguars: why perspectivism got it so wrong'
https://vimeo.com/1073597720

Mar 18 Kit Opie 'Primate mating systems and the evolution of language'
https://vimeo.com/1075096840

Mar 25 Ivan Tacey 'Serpentine cosmopolitics: a cross-cultural analysis of the Rainbow Serpent'
https://vimeo.com/1075098313

780,000-Year-Old Discovery Shakes Up Human Diet History
New evidence from Israel’s Gesher Benot Ya’aqov site reveals early humans relied heavily on plants, not just meat. Researchers found preserved remains of 55 different food plants, showing our ancestors had a varied, nutrient-rich vegetarian diet 780,000 years ago.
This challenges the "caveman diet" stereotype and proves plant-based nutrition has been key to human survival for millennia. #HumanEvolution #PaleoDiet #Archaeology
https://scitechdaily.com/780000-year-old-discovery-reveals-that-early-humans-thrived-on-a-plant-based-diet/

New insights into a critical period for the phylogeny of apes and humans: 10–7 MYA in Anatolia. https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1080128 The earliest species that are referred to hominins came from deposits over 6 MY old in NE Africa. What happened in the late Miocene right before that (geologically speaking) between widespread ape populations throughout Europe and along the Mediterranean is a mystery. #evolution #apes #humanevolution

Fossil in Taiwan confirmed as Denisovan. Expands current knowledge of geographic range of this human variant (species?) . https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01090-3 #evolution #humanevolution #denisovan

Seriously exciting! A robust mandible identified as that of a #Denisovan man from #Taiwan. #Proteomics were used in the study

'Although genomic studies suggest that they were widespread throughout Asia, fossils of this group have thus far only been identified from regions with cold climates, Siberia and Tibet. Tsutaya et al. used ancient proteomic analysis on a previously unidentified hominin mandible from Taiwan and identified it as having belonged to a male Denisovan. This identification confirms previous genomic predictions of the group’s widespread occurrence, including in warmer climates. The robust nature of this mandible is similar to that seen in a Denisovan one from Tibet, suggesting that this is a consistent trait for the lineage'

#anthropology #paleontology #humanevolution #EastAsia
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ads3888

@eryops our point is not so much about Greenpeace, good or bad, as the use of #blood red pigment #symbolic of #resistance to #male #dominance. We work on the #science of how old that is in #Homosapiens

Can We Speed Up #HumanEvolution?

Why our #survival may depend on adapting faster than #nature intended.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/common-sense-science/202503/can-we-speed-up-human-evolution