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Feb. 8, 2021
If you are blindfolded and grab an elephant’s tail, absent other clues you might think you’re the proud owner of a hairy snake. The more evidence you accrue, the closer to the truth you may approach. That’s the story of human evolution. All new evidence must be parsimoniously fit into the puzzle and where it flouts previous assumptions, the discredited assumptions, however credible when made, must be junked.
Now, what were thought to be signs of modern humans from as much as 120,000 years ago were actually signs of modern humans from around 16,000 years ago or less, claims a new paper published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Humans Used to Be Able to Hibernate, Evidence Suggests Prevention 1/10/2021
The evidence is from nutritional diseases that leave permanent marks on the skeleton.
This group of humanlike primates spent winters sheltered inside dark, but safe caves.
In a new study, scientists reveal their findings from a key investigation: did humans or their ancestors ever hibernate?
While it’s difficult to make a conclusive case after thousands of years, researchers have combined observations from the fossil record and believe humans had a form of hibernating in the long-ago past.
The results show through evidence like bone structure and growth over time, which scientists can use to backform what people were eating and doing during the seasonal cycle.
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