https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsoni...180981344/
INTRO: With many projects around the world proceeding despite the Covid-19 pandemic, researchers across a variety of fields made multiple exciting breakthroughs on human origins, gaining more insight into topics ranging from food and drink to interspecies cooperation. Telling us more about our food, our health, our close relatives and ancestors, and even our animal friends, these 14 new discoveries scientists made this year shed more light on what it means to be human... (MORE - details)
CATEGORIES COVERED:
Meat, fire and beer: origins of modern food staples (1-3)
Animal friends and animal food: origins of domestication and cooperation (4-6)
New fossils shed light on old ancestors: discoveries from our earliest and most recent evolutionary history (7-9)
Friends and family ties in modern apes and Neanderthals (10-11)
How disease shapes us, and how we evolved to treat it (12-14)
Most notable: a new 2022 Nobel Laureate
INTRO: With many projects around the world proceeding despite the Covid-19 pandemic, researchers across a variety of fields made multiple exciting breakthroughs on human origins, gaining more insight into topics ranging from food and drink to interspecies cooperation. Telling us more about our food, our health, our close relatives and ancestors, and even our animal friends, these 14 new discoveries scientists made this year shed more light on what it means to be human... (MORE - details)
CATEGORIES COVERED:
Meat, fire and beer: origins of modern food staples (1-3)
Animal friends and animal food: origins of domestication and cooperation (4-6)
New fossils shed light on old ancestors: discoveries from our earliest and most recent evolutionary history (7-9)
Friends and family ties in modern apes and Neanderthals (10-11)
How disease shapes us, and how we evolved to treat it (12-14)
Most notable: a new 2022 Nobel Laureate