☀️Ancestral Habits week 11: Why do all humans give gifts?🎁 Why can’t we tickle ourselves?🤣

Welcome to the Ancestral Habits newsletter☀️
Four weeks a month we explore finds related prehistoric life and culture
(middle/upper Paleolithic: ~300,000-12,500 years ago)
and the evolutionary origins of all things human!

Here’s a recap of this past week on Ancestral Habits:

🏝Things prehistoric people did every day that are considered luxuries today.

👨‍👩‍👦How old were prehistoric parents.

👵🏽Prehistoric grandmothers were the breadwinners.

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Humor is prehistoric and so are memes!

I know this meme doesn’t appear to be about prehistory, but hear me out. This image illustrates a concept that I think is fundamental to anthropology and the study of prehistoric humans in general. Whoever is shining the green light might believe the shape is a square. To the one shining the red light, it’s clear that they are dealing with a circle. And for the individual shining the purple light, it is without a doubt a triangle. Our understanding of what we see, what we know and what is true depends on our view point; but it doesn’t always offer the full story. While modern technology is elucidating aspects of early human and hominin life and culture that are truly remarkable, it takes a well-rounded, diverse, multidisciplinary approach to even begin to see the full picture of our enigmatic and mysterious past.

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🤓Hardcore nerds (paid subscribers), read on below for:

• 4 cool headlines relating to human origins

• A deep dive into some deep questions:

  • Why do all humans give gifts?🎁

  • Why can’t we tickle ourselves?🤣

• Jump into the subscriber chat to share your thoughts!