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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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Anthropology Current Affairs
Week of 19–25 July 2026 · published Sunday, 26 July 2026 A deer park, what the apes are telling us, and the tribes of Odisha Think of a group of bonobos in a forest sanctuary, waiting. They know the food is coming – a scatter of peanuts, any moment now. It is exactly the kind… Continue reading
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Great apes were using touch to reassure and keep the peace six million years before humans evolved – new research
Jake Brooker, Utrecht University and Zanna Clay, Durham University During an eight-month-long research trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Zambia, we studied consolation: the way bonobos and chimpanzees comfort each other after conflicts and distress. But early on, we kept noticing something that didn’t quite fit. The animals were exchanging a lot… 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.