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Anthropology Current Affairs
Fortnightly Digest · 18 October – 31 October 2026 For the UPSC Anthropology optional Published Sunday, 1 November 2026 PAPER 1: GENERAL AND PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY The Average Human Genome: Quantifying Genetic Variation Across 900,000 Individuals The News A Genome Medicine study published on 22 October 2026, with Caroline Wright as corresponding author, analysed nearly 900,000… Continue reading
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Anthropology Current Affairs
Fortnightly Digest · 3 October – 17 October 2026 For the UPSC Anthropology optional Published Sunday, 18 October 2026 PAPER 1: GENERAL AND PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY Shanidar A evidence of Neanderthal trauma and care The News Explanatory Notes Theoretical Synthesis Essential Concepts and Terminology Case Study and Empirical Integration: This single skeleton is the most economical example… Continue reading
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Anthropology Current Affairs
Fortnightly Digest · 19 September – 2 October 2026 For the UPSC Anthropology optional Published Sunday, 4 October 2026 PAPER 1: GENERAL AND PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY The International Day of Sign Languages and the Anthropological Study of Language The News Explanatory Notes Theoretical Synthesis Essential Concepts & Terminology Case Study & Empirical Integration: Cite the 23 September… Continue reading
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Anthropology Current Affairs
Fortnightly Digest · 6 to 18 September 2026 For the UPSC Anthropology optional Published Sunday, 20 September 2026 PAPER 1: GENERAL AND PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY Bone Strength Places the End of Habitual Tree-Climbing at About 1.8 Million Years Ago The News A paper published in Science Advances on 16 September 2026 that obligate terrestrial bipedalism, meaning the complete abandonment… Continue reading
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Anthropology Current Affairs
Weekly Digest · 30 August – 5 September 2026 For the UPSC Anthropology optional Published Sunday, 6 September 2026 PAPER 1: GENERAL AND PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY The International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances and the Work of Forensic Anthropology The News On 30 August 2026 the United Nations and human rights organisations across the… Continue reading
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Anthropology Current Affairs
Weekly Digest · 23–29 August 2026 For the UPSC Anthropology optional Published Sunday, 30 August 2026 PAPER 1: GENERAL AND PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY Why Do Chimpanzees Keep Throwing Stones at the Same Trees? (Recent Context for Revision) The News This entry is recent context for Paper 1 revision rather than this week’s news: the fieldwork account… Continue reading
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Anthropology Current Affairs
Weekly Digest · 16–22 August 2026 For the UPSC Anthropology optional Published Sunday, 23 August 2026 Today is the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition This week’s digest brings together major developments in palaeoanthropology alongside an instructive story on community health from Sikkim. A bold proposal to include Australopithecus… Continue reading
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Anthropology Current Affairs
Weekly Digest · 2 August – 8 August 2026 For the UPSC Anthropology optional · Published Sunday, 9 August 2026 · Today, 9 August, is the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples – observed in India as World Tribal Day (Vishwa Adivasi Divas) – and the digest opens with the Day itself and its… Continue reading
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Anthropology Current Affairs
Anthropology Current Affairs Anthropology Weekly – the week of 26 July to 1 August 2026 Published Sunday, 2 August 2026 A million and a half years ago, on the soft mud of a lakeshore in northern Kenya, a group of eight walked past one after another, and the ground kept the record. No tools, no… Continue reading
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Smaller brains? Fewer friends? An evolutionary biologist asks how AI will change humanity’s future
Rob Brooks What will humans be like generations from now in a world transformed by artificial intelligence (AI)? Plenty of thinkers have applied themselves to questions like this, considering how AI will alter lives – often for better, sometimes for worse. They have conjured dramatic scenarios, like AI-driven extinction of humans (and many other species),… Continue reading
i think, therefore i am.
Cogito, ergo sum is a Latin philosophical proposition by René Descartes usually translated into English as “I think, therefore I am”, probably the one thing that defines our specie.