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☀️Ancestral Habits week 40: The curious case of cultural hibernation🐻❄️

Dec 14, 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:

❄️Getting cozy is in your DNA.

😡Why do we get jealous?

Humor is prehistoric and so are memes!

For clarity, see the 🔥 headlines below… there’s a lot to unpack here😆

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

  • 4 cool headlines relating to human origins

A deep dive:

  • Did prehistoric humans hibernate?🐻

  • The curious case of cultural hibernation❄️

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