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☀️Ancestral Habits week 30: We evolved to smile back at each other, but it’s not what you think😃 6 marketing strategies that exploit human evolution (and really work)📈

Oct 06, 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:

💕Humans evolved to be friendly (and it affected what we look like)

🍁Evolutionary origins of seasonal affective disorder.

🌌 We perceive things to be beautiful when we believe they are good for us (and other internal compasses) Post | Reel

🦍10 inspiring facts about Jane Goodall.

Humor is prehistoric and so are memes!

RIP Dr. Jane Goodall💔

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

  • 4 cool headlines relating to human origins

A deep dive:

  • We evolved to smile back at each other, but it’s not what you think😃

  • 6 marketing strategies that exploit human evolution (and really work)📈

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