Neandertals the closest ancestor to modern humans possessed the ability to perceive and produce human speech, according to a new study published by an international multidisciplinary team of researchers including Binghamton University anthropology professor Rolf Quam and graduate student Alex Velez.
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âLife canât just be working all week and then going to the supermarket on Saturday. It just canât be. That life is not human.â So said paleoanthropologist Juan Luis Arsuaga in a widely shared interview with EL PAÃS last year. At the time, the Spanish government had declared a nationwide home lockdown in a bid to control the coronavirus pandemic. Nearly one year on, Alberto del Campo, a doctor in anthropology, has taken a closer look at this idea. In his new book
La Vida Cotidiana en Tiempos de la Covid (or, Daily Life in Times of Covid), Del Campo pulls together a dozen studies that investigate how the health crisis has impacted daily life, turning what was once simple and routine into highly prized activities. The newly unemployed who dream of going back to work, the working mothers overwhelmed without their support network, the youngsters who have had to change their sex lives, the people who want to wake up without being afraid of contagion â these ar
According to a new study, early humans may have hibernated through the winters but it would have caused some serious side effects.
Experts came to this hypothesis based on data collected from an extinct human species who lived hundreds of thousands of years ago that was unearthed in a deep shaft of the Sima de los Huesos cave which is located at the UNESCO heritage site of Atapuerca in Spain. Antonis Bartsiokas and Juan-Luis Arsuaga, who are authors of the study, analyzed the human remains by using CT scans, microscopes, and close-up photography.
Based on their analysis, they discovered that the remains had vitamin D deficiency and the growth spurts in adolescents were relevant to certain seasons which suggested that the ancient humans may have hibernated in a dark location throughout the winter months. Bartsiokas and Arsuaga wrote in part, “The hypothesis of hibernation is consistent with the genetic evidence and the fact that the Sima de los Huesos hominins lived during a glaci