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☀️Ancestral Habits week 5: Why do babies kick off their blankets?👶 Why do we choose favorite colors?🎨

Mar 24, 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:

😢Why do humans cry emotional tears?
💧Why do female tears lower male testosterone?
🕰How did prehistoric people tell and perceive time?


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 won’t my baby use a blanket?👶

    • Why do we choose favorite colors?🎨

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