evolutionary
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Deciphering the DNA of our microbial adversaries has revolutionized our understanding of their evolutionary history.
After the split between human and chimpanzee lineages around 7 million years ago, early human ancestors followed a complex evolutionary path that eventually led to the emergence of Homo sapiens roughly 300,000 years ago.
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“What we’re talking about is a much older, evolutionary, more animalistic way of understanding the social world,” says Dr. Eliska Prochazkova, a postdoctoral researcher at the Cognitive Psychology Unit of Leiden University in the Netherlands.
"We can use sourdough as an experimental evolution framework, to see what happens over time," said evolutionary biologist Caiti Heil, Ph.D.
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The authors argue that scavenging was not an occasional fallback, but a core survival strategy repeated throughout human evolutionary history.
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