MU-Peter Shimon 🀄
@mu-peter.bsky.social
Disruptive Digital Darwinist
💀#Neanderthal is in my DNA!🧬
#Evolution #PaleoAnth #EvoMed #OpenScience
CBSA http://cbsaimtt.com
💀#Neanderthal is in my DNA!🧬
#Evolution #PaleoAnth #EvoMed #OpenScience
CBSA http://cbsaimtt.com
Sharks and skates interact with pool toys,
perhaps reflecting their cognitive needs for enrichment.
This may hint at deeper intelligence.
Interaction with enrichment objects depends on color and increases after feeding in some elasmobranchs but not others 🏺🧪
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
perhaps reflecting their cognitive needs for enrichment.
This may hint at deeper intelligence.
Interaction with enrichment objects depends on color and increases after feeding in some elasmobranchs but not others 🏺🧪
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Sharks and skates interact with pool toys,
perhaps reflecting their cognitive needs for enrichment.
This may hint at deeper intelligence.
Interaction with enrichment objects depends on color and increases after feeding in some elasmobranchs but not others 🏺🧪
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
perhaps reflecting their cognitive needs for enrichment.
This may hint at deeper intelligence.
Interaction with enrichment objects depends on color and increases after feeding in some elasmobranchs but not others 🏺🧪
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"All-Body Brain" Challenges What We Know About Evolution of Nervous Systems
Single-nucleus profiling highlights the all-brain echinoderm nervous system 🏺🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Findings show the echinoderm body plan is predominantly head-like and exhibits an “all-brain” organization.
Single-nucleus profiling highlights the all-brain echinoderm nervous system 🏺🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Findings show the echinoderm body plan is predominantly head-like and exhibits an “all-brain” organization.
November 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
"All-Body Brain" Challenges What We Know About Evolution of Nervous Systems
Single-nucleus profiling highlights the all-brain echinoderm nervous system 🏺🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Findings show the echinoderm body plan is predominantly head-like and exhibits an “all-brain” organization.
Single-nucleus profiling highlights the all-brain echinoderm nervous system 🏺🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Findings show the echinoderm body plan is predominantly head-like and exhibits an “all-brain” organization.
There are many facts about the human brain that are not widely known. Here's a look at nine ways the anatomy of the human brain might surprise you.
9 Ways The Anatomy Of The Brain Might Surprise You 🏺🧪
www.sciencing.com/2023813/ways...
9 Ways The Anatomy Of The Brain Might Surprise You 🏺🧪
www.sciencing.com/2023813/ways...
November 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
There are many facts about the human brain that are not widely known. Here's a look at nine ways the anatomy of the human brain might surprise you.
9 Ways The Anatomy Of The Brain Might Surprise You 🏺🧪
www.sciencing.com/2023813/ways...
9 Ways The Anatomy Of The Brain Might Surprise You 🏺🧪
www.sciencing.com/2023813/ways...
Music appears to reorganize brain activity to enhance our sense of time
Listening to Music Modulates EEG Functional Connectivity During Subsequent Time Estimation:
A Comparative Study Between Musicians and Non-Musicians 🏺🧪
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Listening to Music Modulates EEG Functional Connectivity During Subsequent Time Estimation:
A Comparative Study Between Musicians and Non-Musicians 🏺🧪
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 17, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Music appears to reorganize brain activity to enhance our sense of time
Listening to Music Modulates EEG Functional Connectivity During Subsequent Time Estimation:
A Comparative Study Between Musicians and Non-Musicians 🏺🧪
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Listening to Music Modulates EEG Functional Connectivity During Subsequent Time Estimation:
A Comparative Study Between Musicians and Non-Musicians 🏺🧪
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Keep your wits about you...
Get up, move around
Physical activity as a modifiable risk factor in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Findings support targeting physical inactivity as an intervention to modify the trajectory of preclinical AD in future prevention trials
Get up, move around
Physical activity as a modifiable risk factor in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Findings support targeting physical inactivity as an intervention to modify the trajectory of preclinical AD in future prevention trials
November 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Keep your wits about you...
Get up, move around
Physical activity as a modifiable risk factor in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Findings support targeting physical inactivity as an intervention to modify the trajectory of preclinical AD in future prevention trials
Get up, move around
Physical activity as a modifiable risk factor in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Findings support targeting physical inactivity as an intervention to modify the trajectory of preclinical AD in future prevention trials
Aging trajectories are influenced by modifiable risk factors
Speaking Multiple Languages May Slow Down Biological Aging
Multilingualism protects against accelerated aging in cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of 27 European countries 🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Speaking Multiple Languages May Slow Down Biological Aging
Multilingualism protects against accelerated aging in cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of 27 European countries 🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
November 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Aging trajectories are influenced by modifiable risk factors
Speaking Multiple Languages May Slow Down Biological Aging
Multilingualism protects against accelerated aging in cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of 27 European countries 🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Speaking Multiple Languages May Slow Down Biological Aging
Multilingualism protects against accelerated aging in cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of 27 European countries 🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Humans Used to Sleep Twice Every Night.
Here's Why It Vanished. 🏺🧪
www.sciencealert.com/humans-used-...
Continuous sleep is a modern habit, not an evolutionary constant, which helps explain why many of us still wake at 3 am.
Here's Why It Vanished. 🏺🧪
www.sciencealert.com/humans-used-...
Continuous sleep is a modern habit, not an evolutionary constant, which helps explain why many of us still wake at 3 am.
November 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Humans Used to Sleep Twice Every Night.
Here's Why It Vanished. 🏺🧪
www.sciencealert.com/humans-used-...
Continuous sleep is a modern habit, not an evolutionary constant, which helps explain why many of us still wake at 3 am.
Here's Why It Vanished. 🏺🧪
www.sciencealert.com/humans-used-...
Continuous sleep is a modern habit, not an evolutionary constant, which helps explain why many of us still wake at 3 am.
I wonder...
Does it get easier over time?
Does it get easier over time?
November 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I wonder...
Does it get easier over time?
Does it get easier over time?
🔆 Good morning!
How did you sleep?
Predictably, it was bifurcated.
Falling asleep follows a predictable bifurcation dynamic 🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Shows the brain’s wake-to-sleep transition follows bifurcation dynamics with a distinct tipping point preceded by a critical slowing down.
How did you sleep?
Predictably, it was bifurcated.
Falling asleep follows a predictable bifurcation dynamic 🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Shows the brain’s wake-to-sleep transition follows bifurcation dynamics with a distinct tipping point preceded by a critical slowing down.
November 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
🔆 Good morning!
How did you sleep?
Predictably, it was bifurcated.
Falling asleep follows a predictable bifurcation dynamic 🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Shows the brain’s wake-to-sleep transition follows bifurcation dynamics with a distinct tipping point preceded by a critical slowing down.
How did you sleep?
Predictably, it was bifurcated.
Falling asleep follows a predictable bifurcation dynamic 🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Shows the brain’s wake-to-sleep transition follows bifurcation dynamics with a distinct tipping point preceded by a critical slowing down.
And I wish you have many more. ;-)
November 16, 2025 at 11:56 PM
And I wish you have many more. ;-)
So Erin, how many replies saying "they're all the same" did you get? ;-)
November 14, 2025 at 9:03 PM
So Erin, how many replies saying "they're all the same" did you get? ;-)
Oh yeah... no worries.
Radiation never kills you, it makes you a superhero.
Radiation never kills you, it makes you a superhero.
November 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Oh yeah... no worries.
Radiation never kills you, it makes you a superhero.
Radiation never kills you, it makes you a superhero.
That they think this will fix things at Target is just one more reason not to shop at Target.
November 8, 2025 at 8:41 PM
That they think this will fix things at Target is just one more reason not to shop at Target.
🔆 Happy #NationalSTEMday
Every November 8th...
National STEM Day is a reminder of how science, technology, engineering and math help us to ask questions, solve problems and imagine a better world.
National STEM Day:
What is it and Why is it Important? 🧪
stemhunter.com/national-ste...
Every November 8th...
National STEM Day is a reminder of how science, technology, engineering and math help us to ask questions, solve problems and imagine a better world.
National STEM Day:
What is it and Why is it Important? 🧪
stemhunter.com/national-ste...
November 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
🔆 Happy #NationalSTEMday
Every November 8th...
National STEM Day is a reminder of how science, technology, engineering and math help us to ask questions, solve problems and imagine a better world.
National STEM Day:
What is it and Why is it Important? 🧪
stemhunter.com/national-ste...
Every November 8th...
National STEM Day is a reminder of how science, technology, engineering and math help us to ask questions, solve problems and imagine a better world.
National STEM Day:
What is it and Why is it Important? 🧪
stemhunter.com/national-ste...
There's a loophole in that law...
We are allowed to complain after our Thanksgiving if it snows here before the American Thanksgiving.
We are allowed to complain after our Thanksgiving if it snows here before the American Thanksgiving.
November 8, 2025 at 3:08 AM
There's a loophole in that law...
We are allowed to complain after our Thanksgiving if it snows here before the American Thanksgiving.
We are allowed to complain after our Thanksgiving if it snows here before the American Thanksgiving.
I like snow... when it comes in a paper cone and is covered in strawberry syrup.
November 8, 2025 at 2:35 AM
I like snow... when it comes in a paper cone and is covered in strawberry syrup.
Evidence for symbolic use of ochre by Micoquian Neanderthals in Crimea 🏺🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Results highlight Neanderthal cognitive complexity and underscore the importance of regional, multiproxy approaches in evaluating the emergence of symbolic material culture.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Results highlight Neanderthal cognitive complexity and underscore the importance of regional, multiproxy approaches in evaluating the emergence of symbolic material culture.
November 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Evidence for symbolic use of ochre by Micoquian Neanderthals in Crimea 🏺🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Results highlight Neanderthal cognitive complexity and underscore the importance of regional, multiproxy approaches in evaluating the emergence of symbolic material culture.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Results highlight Neanderthal cognitive complexity and underscore the importance of regional, multiproxy approaches in evaluating the emergence of symbolic material culture.
A new late Neanderthal from Crimea reveals long-distance connections across Eurasia 🏺🧪
Emily M. Pigott, @katerinad.bsky.social @tommyhigham.bsky.social et al
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Crimea has key Paleolithic transitional sites, including Starosele, where there's a new Neanderthal; Star 1.
A new late Neanderthal from Crimea reveals long-distance connections across Eurasia 🏺🧪
Emily M. Pigott, @katerinad.bsky.social @tommyhigham.bsky.social et al
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Crimea has key Paleolithic transitional sites, including Starosele, where there's a new Neanderthal; Star 1.
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
A new late Neanderthal from Crimea reveals long-distance connections across Eurasia 🏺🧪
Emily M. Pigott, @katerinad.bsky.social @tommyhigham.bsky.social et al
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Crimea has key Paleolithic transitional sites, including Starosele, where there's a new Neanderthal; Star 1.
A new late Neanderthal from Crimea reveals long-distance connections across Eurasia 🏺🧪
Emily M. Pigott, @katerinad.bsky.social @tommyhigham.bsky.social et al
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Crimea has key Paleolithic transitional sites, including Starosele, where there's a new Neanderthal; Star 1.
Similar tools trace Paleolithic Pacific migration into North America
Characterizing the American Upper Paleolithic 🏺🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Between ~22,000 and ~18,000 cal yr B.P., a subset of this population migrated along the southern Beringian and Northwest coasts into the Americas.
Characterizing the American Upper Paleolithic 🏺🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Between ~22,000 and ~18,000 cal yr B.P., a subset of this population migrated along the southern Beringian and Northwest coasts into the Americas.
November 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Similar tools trace Paleolithic Pacific migration into North America
Characterizing the American Upper Paleolithic 🏺🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Between ~22,000 and ~18,000 cal yr B.P., a subset of this population migrated along the southern Beringian and Northwest coasts into the Americas.
Characterizing the American Upper Paleolithic 🏺🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Between ~22,000 and ~18,000 cal yr B.P., a subset of this population migrated along the southern Beringian and Northwest coasts into the Americas.
The Coastal Hypothesis:
One possible migration route for Late Pleistocene Homo sapiens from the southern tip of Africa 🏺🧪
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Late Pleistocene paleoenvironment and paleoclimate of the Cape coast, at the southern tip of Africa, are examined.
One possible migration route for Late Pleistocene Homo sapiens from the southern tip of Africa 🏺🧪
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Late Pleistocene paleoenvironment and paleoclimate of the Cape coast, at the southern tip of Africa, are examined.
November 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The Coastal Hypothesis:
One possible migration route for Late Pleistocene Homo sapiens from the southern tip of Africa 🏺🧪
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Late Pleistocene paleoenvironment and paleoclimate of the Cape coast, at the southern tip of Africa, are examined.
One possible migration route for Late Pleistocene Homo sapiens from the southern tip of Africa 🏺🧪
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Late Pleistocene paleoenvironment and paleoclimate of the Cape coast, at the southern tip of Africa, are examined.
Evolutionary explanations of hominin evolution depend on a comprehensive and holistic understanding of the hominin fossil record that can only be achieved by integrating primary fossil data.
The hominin fossil record of the Omo-Turkana Basin 🏺🧪
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The hominin fossil record of the Omo-Turkana Basin 🏺🧪
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Evolutionary explanations of hominin evolution depend on a comprehensive and holistic understanding of the hominin fossil record that can only be achieved by integrating primary fossil data.
The hominin fossil record of the Omo-Turkana Basin 🏺🧪
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The hominin fossil record of the Omo-Turkana Basin 🏺🧪
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Early Oldowan technology thrived during Pliocene environmental change in the Turkana Basin, Kenya 🏺🧪
David Braun, Ashley Hammond, Susana Carvalho et al
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Shows environmental shifts, technological innovations, and pivotal factors in the trajectory of human evolution.
David Braun, Ashley Hammond, Susana Carvalho et al
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Shows environmental shifts, technological innovations, and pivotal factors in the trajectory of human evolution.
November 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Early Oldowan technology thrived during Pliocene environmental change in the Turkana Basin, Kenya 🏺🧪
David Braun, Ashley Hammond, Susana Carvalho et al
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Shows environmental shifts, technological innovations, and pivotal factors in the trajectory of human evolution.
David Braun, Ashley Hammond, Susana Carvalho et al
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Shows environmental shifts, technological innovations, and pivotal factors in the trajectory of human evolution.
Accelerated evolution increased craniofacial divergence between humans and great apes 🏺🧪
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Humans emerge as the only species that consistently shows the highest evolutionary rate across almost all craniofacial regions in both males and females.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Humans emerge as the only species that consistently shows the highest evolutionary rate across almost all craniofacial regions in both males and females.
November 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Accelerated evolution increased craniofacial divergence between humans and great apes 🏺🧪
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Humans emerge as the only species that consistently shows the highest evolutionary rate across almost all craniofacial regions in both males and females.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Humans emerge as the only species that consistently shows the highest evolutionary rate across almost all craniofacial regions in both males and females.
Chimpanzee culture beyond the conspicuous:
Evidence for broad-scale observational social learning in wild individuals 🏺🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Suggests wild chimpanzees use peering to learn a broad variety of skills, thereby highlighting unrecognized cultural potential in everyday skills.
Evidence for broad-scale observational social learning in wild individuals 🏺🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Suggests wild chimpanzees use peering to learn a broad variety of skills, thereby highlighting unrecognized cultural potential in everyday skills.
November 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Chimpanzee culture beyond the conspicuous:
Evidence for broad-scale observational social learning in wild individuals 🏺🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Suggests wild chimpanzees use peering to learn a broad variety of skills, thereby highlighting unrecognized cultural potential in everyday skills.
Evidence for broad-scale observational social learning in wild individuals 🏺🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Suggests wild chimpanzees use peering to learn a broad variety of skills, thereby highlighting unrecognized cultural potential in everyday skills.