Recently Dan Carlin, of the Hardcore History podcast, released an episode exploring prehistory. I found a history guy’s perspective on prehistory fascinating. There were many points I agreed with and some I didn’t. I thought it would be worthwhile to explore some of the points Dan made and add a little anthropological depth to the discussion.

References in Order of Appearance

* Growth, Development, and Life History throughout the Evolution of Homo. By Gary Schwartz, 2012. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/667591

* Mobile elements reveal small population size in the ancient ancestors of Homo sapiens. By Chad Huff and colleagues, 2010. www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0909000107

* The Old Way: A Story of the First People. By Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, 2007. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/031242728X/ref=ppx_od_dt_b_asin_title_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

* The Secrets of Chimpanzee and Bonobo Societies. By The Leakey Foundation featuring Dr. Liran Samuni, 2023. https://www.youtube.com/live/alR-JmkpU0s?feature=share&t=3123

* Nuclear DNA sequences from the Middle Pleistocene Sima de los Huesos hominins. By Matthias Meyer and colleagues, 2016. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature17405

* Khoe-San Genomes Reveal Unique Variation and Confirm the Deepest Population Divergence in Homo sapiens. By Carina Schlebusch and colleagues, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaa140

* Podcasts by Razib Khan, Unsupervised Learning https://razib.substack.com/podcast The Insight https://insitome.libsyn.com/website

* Namkwa: Life Among the Bushmen. By Hans-Joachim Heinz , 1979. https://www.amazon.com/NAMKWA-Marshall-Lee/dp/039527611X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Namkwa+Life+Among+The+Bushmen&qid=1614567228&sr=8-1

* Did Our Species Evolve in Subdivided Populations across Africa, and Why Does It Matter? By Eleanor Scerri and colleagues, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2018.05.005

* A weakly structured stem for human origins in Africa. By Aaron Ragsdale and colleagues, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06055-y

* Beyond multiregional and simple out-of-Africa models of human evolution. By Eleanor Scerri, Lounes Chikhi, and Mark Thomas, 2019. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-019-0992-1

* First Peoples’ knowledge leads scientists to reveal ‘fairy circles’ and termite linyji are linked in Australia. By Fiona Welsh et al., 2023. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-01994-1

* The Hunters: Scarce Resources in the Kalahari. By Richard Lee, 1968. http://people.morrisville.edu/~reymers/readings/ANTH101/Scarce_Resources-Lee.pdf

* Peace Among Primates. By Robert Sapolsky, 2007. https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/peace_among_primates

* Chimpanzee genomic diversity reveals ancient admixture with bonobos. By Marc de Manuel et al., 2016. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5546212/pdf/nihms865600.pdf

* Epigenetics and locust life phase transitions. By Ulrich Ernst, 2015. https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/218/1/88/13606/Epigenetics-and-locust-life-phase-transitions

* Raiding pastoral livelihoods: motives and effects of violent conflict in north-western Kenya. By Janpeter Schilling and colleagues, 2012. https://pastoralismjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/2041-7136-2-25

* Where people live in harmony with lions. By Anthony Ham, 2021. https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20210913-where-people-live-in-harmony-with-lions

* Cape buffalo mitogenomics reveals a Holocene shift in the African human–megafauna dynamics. By Rasmus Heller et al., 2012. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05671.x

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