Edit: apparently the timestamp which I set to minute 9 doesn't work here
The speaker, Chris Stringer, a paleoanthropologist, was one of the most vocal proponents of OoA a few years ago. He's very well known.
You don't have to listen to the whole thing, but at minute 9 he's basically admitting "it's more complicated" than OoA.
He and his Chinese collaborators are arguing that a Homo Longi/Denisovan branch of hominins from East Eurasia are ancestrally closer to modern humans than neanderthals or heidelbergensis, which is very controversial but interesting.
I post it because, even if you are not into this shit, you should understand that high profile guys in paleoanthropology and paleogenetics have been saying stuff like this more and more frequently.
This should make you guys happy. If true, this might indicate that a pre-australopithecine human ancestor-- close to the root of the human/chimpanzee split circa 7 million years ago-- was a european ape (graecopithicus) and not an african one (sahelopithicus).
This doesn't mean modern eurasians have no african ancestors. But it is another piece of evidence that indicates human evolution was far more multiregional than parochial out-of-africa theory assumed-- an idea that has slowly gained ground in academia for 15 years or so.
Unless “big pharma” can synthesize the compounds and monetize them, the results could be shown to be 100% effective and yet they still won’t allow their patsies- the FDA and CDC (not to mention the Justice dept) to authorize use as treatment.
They still refuse to consider cannabinoids as potential treatments for a variety of medical and psychological issues because it would undermine more profitable synthetic proprietary compounds…
I don't know how accurate these reconstructions are. There wasn't much info on the creator's channel.
If you don't know, the Tarim Basin mummies were mummies found in western China with European-like genetics and phenotypes. They are now known to be an 80% match to Ancient North Eurasians, a Mesolithic Siberian population that Europeans are partially descended from. Their presence in that area would have predated Yamnaya (proto-indoeuropean) expansions into central asia by perhaps 10s of thousands of years. Much of our "White" phenotype seems to have evolved in and spread from Ancient North Eurasians.
Vasopressin (arginine vasopressin, or AVP) acts as a key "defender" molecule in the male stress response system, specifically activating in response to threats, social danger, and territorial challenges.
Defensive Aggression and Vigilance: Vasopressin heightens a male's alert state, fostering protective and aggressive behaviours to defend self, family, or territory. It promotes "preemptive strikes" in competitive or dangerous situations.
Vasopressin is a key hormone for male bonding and attachment, often activated by stress, challenges, and high-stakes problem-solving rather than just affection.
Bonding through Action: Unlike women who may bond through sharing, men often bond through doing things together, shared goals, and overcoming obstacles.
Monogamy Molecule: High levels of vasopressin are associated with increased, long-term monogamous loyalty and protective instincts.
Intimacy & Commitment: Sexual climax can trigger vasopressin in men, encouraging protective feelings toward a partner.
Vasopressin is a hormone often associated with pair-bonding, mate-guarding, and territorial behaviours in males, frequently triggered by stress or challenges. While women primarily bond through oxytocin (orgasm throuygh sex and intamcy), men tend to rely on vasopressin for bonding. Hence why women "test" men to trigger a stress a state in dating by acting like a bitch.
Not All Stress is Good: While mild, constructive challenges can engage this bonding, chronic or intense distress can have negative effects on a relationship. This is where modern women fail because of poor choices in frequent pair bonding and an inability to stress test men effectively due to a lack of commitment.
Vasopressin acts as a key neurochemical for long-term male pair-bonding, fostering territoriality, loyalty, and protective, committed behaviour towards a female partner. Often considered a "stress-bonding" hormone, it is triggered in men during shared challenges, goal achievement, and physical intimacy. It acts as a safety signal to increase attachment.
While most estimates place the current human population at around 8.2 billion, a study suggests we might be vastly underrepresenting rural areas.
By analyzing 300 rural dam projects across 35 countries, researchers from Aalto University in Finland found discrepancies among these independent population counts and other population data gathered between 1975 and 2010.
Such underreporting could have consequences in terms of resource allocation within a country, but other experts remain skeptical that decades of population counting could be off by such a wide margin.
okay but read this oddly written paragraph next ...
When trying to count such a massive population, a few hundred or maybe even a few thousand may slip through the cracks. But a few million or even billion would upend our understanding of human occupation on this planet. Scientists will need a bit more evidence before rethinking decades of dataset research.
I mean I would have thought this was kind of bigger news. It's certainly going to devastate all the people who say we could not have gone to the Moon because people couldn't have flown through the radiation belts.
Secondarily I think it's very hysterical that for those who don't know this whole rocket which is cost billions of dollars and is of course budgeted busted its budget 10 times over is built from pieces of the old space shuttle design with the solid rocket boosters that failed during the cold weather launch so many years ago being the exact same type of solid rocket boosters attached to this rocket which is now been canceled for launch today because get this it's too cold.
Anyway that's sort of a secondary stupid engineering decision criticism which many people made in the very beginning when this rocket design was chosen and has now proven once again just how dangerous this rocket design is.
Nonetheless my main point is that it's kind of amazing to me that they're about to launch a bunch of people to go around the Moon for the first time since the 1960s and 70s and quite frankly I haven't heard anything about it.
