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☀️Ancestral Habits week 2: Why do humans experience déja vu?👀 What are the evolutionary origins of cuteness?🥺

Mar 03, 2025
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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:

😄You did not evolve to be happy.

💙The evolutionary origins of dyslexia.


Humor is prehistoric and so are memes!


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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 humans experience déja vu?👀

    • What are the evolutionary origins of cuteness?🥺

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