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☀️Ancestral Habits week 8: Why do songs get stuck in our head?🎶 Why do we feel a need to share on social media?📱

Apr 21, 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:

🎺The sound of 60,000 year old music. (featuring an awesome comments section!)

👋When did humans begin using names?

🛏You evolved to fake it. The evolutionary origins of human sex noises.


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 songs get stuck in our head?🎶

    • Why do we feel a need to share on social media?📱

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