Curiosities
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Here you'll find all those things you didn't know about anthropology.
And we promise you, they're a lot.
Curiosity Nº 1
Babies have more bones
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Babies have 300 bones, what is - believe it or not - 94 bones more than an adult has. This is because, at birth, babies have the "adult's bones" divided in more pieces which will be fused over the years. This would make easier for the baby to adapt himself to the changes in the enviroment, another reason to explain why humans can adapt so well to everything.
Curiosity Nº 2
The reason why deny with the head
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Some scientist and anthropologist have sugested that could have been a relathionship between the unconscious movement we do moving the head to say "no" and the movement that babies do tilting the head when they want to stop eating. Also, it has been proved that a baby is more predisposed to tilt the head to the right than to the left. This information'd clarify the interesant and primitive origin of one of our most stucked habits in our culture.
Curiosity Nº 3
Why neandertals are called "Caveman"?
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The name of "caveman", as they're usually called, arises because the most part of neandertal's fosiles found in Eurasia have been foud inside of deep caves. The reason is so simple, these hominids lived in the Ice Age, so they had to protect themselves from the cold, the snow and blizzards, and nothing's best than a cave for that.
Curiosity Nº 4
The kiss' origin​
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Anthropologists are divided in two when they try to explain the origin of kiss. One of the theories mantain that it simply appeared like an instintive gesture that, because of a natural feeling, humans began to practice. The other one argumentation is based on the thought that the kiss origines by means of the process known as "prechewing". This process comes place when a mother feeds her baby chewing the food in her mouth and passing to the baby through an act similar to kissing.
Curiosity Nº 5
Orangutans laughed before us
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A team of scientists in the University of Portsmouth, with Dr. Marina Davila Ross as leader, have made a research about this cuestion; learning about the laugh of the orangutans very carefully, until they'va came to the point that this specie has developed this ability before we did.
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The research was done with 25 orangutans between 2 and 12 years old, and the scientist could see that this specie of ape developed before the ancient humans the facial muscles of laugh, moreover, the orangutans are able to copy the facial expressions of their partners.
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According to this team of scientists, orangutans laugh in ludic contexts, playing times... Which shows that social context is very important in their lives.
Curiosity Nº 6
Smarter brains are blood-thirsty brains
A University of Adelaide-led project has overturned the theory that the evolution of human intelligence was simply related to the size of the brain -- but rather linked more closely to the supply of blood to the brain.
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The research team calculated how blood flowing to the brain of human ancestors changed over time, using the size of two holes at the base of the skull that allow arteries to pass to the brain. The findings, published in the Royal Society journal Open Science, allowed the researchers to track the increase in human intelligence across evolutionary time.
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