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☀️Ancestral Habits week 42: The cooperative society, the autonomous self 🤝 Exploring the delicate balance of human social dynamics⚖️

Jan 05, 2026
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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:

💕The most powerful love humans have ever known.

🏹 Prehistoric vs. modern autonomy

🖐️Humans didn’t evolve to follow leaders, we evolved to stop them.

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:

  • The cooperative society, the autonomous self 🤝

  • Exploring the delicate balance of human social dynamics⚖️

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