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Did extraterrestrial beings help build the pyramid

Did extraterrestrial beings help build the pyramids? 🤔🛸

'Ancient Aliens' and similar concepts are inherently racist and linked to colonialism. Here's why!

These theories rely heavily on the argument that "people of the past did not have the knowledge, technology, and/or capability to achieve all that they are said to have accomplished, so someone or something else was involved" (S. Halmhofer, Sapiens). In other words, extraterrestrial beings did it.

This heavily implies that Black, Indigenous, or other people of color couldn't have done it, that they "aren't responsible for their own histories."

Ancient achievements in Europe (i.e. ancient Greece) are rarely questioned, while the focus of such inquiries remain on archeological sites in Africa, the Americas, and Asia.

That's racist.

Why is it so hard to believe that ancient Africans were the builders behind wonders like the pyramids of Giza, or that Indigenous people of Peru were responsible for the Nazca lines?

https://qz.com/africa/1080076/racism-is-behind-outlandish-theories-about-africas-ancient-architecture/

https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/pseudoarchaeology-racism/

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The early human evolutionary tree

The early human evolutionary tree 🌳

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Happy #FossilFriday !

This is the wall of ho

Happy #FossilFriday ! 💀

This is the wall of hominins in the Moran Hall of Paleontology, one of my favorite displays in the Houston Museum of Natural Science.

'Hominins' describes the group of primates that includes humans and human ancestors since the evolutionary split from the genus Pan about 6-7 million years ago. Every skull pictured here represents a relative in our lineage. It never ceases to leave me in awe seeing the full family tree like this. 🤯 When I look at it I see tremendous time depth and so many pivotal innovations along the way that made us 'us'. An amazing story made up of countless individual stories and struggles and triumphs spanning millions of years. It's epic and it belongs to us all!

What do you see? 👀

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Happy mother's day to all the mamas out there! 💕

A few mother's day primate facts:

The strongest (and first) social bond in primates is between a mother and her infant. No surprise there!

In most primate species, males provide little to no infant care. Females on the other hand devote a tremendous amount of time and energy into raising their offspring.

Young orangutans have the longest childhood dependence of any animal (save for humans), staying with their mom for up to seven years. Female orangutans are even known to "visit" their mothers for years after their own independence. Call your mom!

Chimpanzees live in male dominated societies. However, the females also have a social hierarchy and the status of a male chimp is largely influenced by the status of his mother.

Thanks mom!

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Continuing our Human Osteology 101 cranial bones s

Continuing our Human Osteology 101 cranial bones series, today we have the occipital bone!

This large single bone makes up the base and back of the cranium and covers the occipital lobe of the brain. The occipital lobe houses our visual cortex, meaning that the visual stimuli our eyes take in has to travel via the optic nerves all the way to the back of our heads!

The occipital bone articulates with both parietal bones, both temporal bones, and the sphenoid. 🦋 It also articulates with the atlas ( first cervical vertebra).

Notice that large hole in the occipital bone? That's called the foramen magnum. A 'foramen' describes a hole in tissue or bone and 'magnum' means BIG, thus foramen magnum = big hole. 🕳️

The foramen magnum is where the skull attaches to the spinal column. The location of the foramen magnum on the skull can tell us about the posture and locomotion of an animal. For example, our foramen magnum is centrally located, meaning our spinal column is perpendicular to the ground, suggesting we are upright walking bipeds. And indeed we are! 💀🚶🏽‍♀️
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Second year Duke Lemur Center #StayAway5K done! ✅

Thank you all for following along with me this week as we learned some fun facts about these fascinating primates. And thanks to my husband for running with me! #teamstrepsirhine 🏃🏼‍♀️

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