FfFfFfFF 58,378 Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 Evidence from bones found at one of the world’s most important fossil sites suggests that our hominid predecessors may have dealt with extreme cold hundreds of thousands of years ago by sleeping through the winter. The scientists argue that lesions and other signs of damage in fossilised bones of early humans are the same as those left in the bones of other animals that hibernate. These suggest that our predecessors coped with the ferocious winters at that time by slowing down their metabolisms and sleeping for months. The conclusions are based on excavations in a cave called Sima de los Huesos – the pit of bones – at Atapuerca, near Burgos in northern Spain. In a paper published in the journal L’Anthropologie, Juan-Luis Arsuaga –who led the team that first excavated at the site – and Antonis Bartsiokas, of Democritus University of Thrace in Greece, argue that the fossils found there show seasonal variations that suggest that bone growth was disrupted for several months of each year. They suggest these early humans found themselves “in metabolic states that helped them to survive for long periods of time in frigid conditions with limited supplies of food and enough stores of body fat”. They hibernated and this is recorded as disruptions in bone development. Source: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/dec/20/early-humans-may-have-survived-the-harsh-winters-by-hibernating Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chic 20,830 Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 We needa bring this back tbh Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LilMonst3r 5,688 Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 Um so My seasonally depressed self could use this. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frostken 929 Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 Nothing new, Gaga's been doing this for a while Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PunkTheFunk 125,719 Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 4 minutes ago, Frostken said: Nothing new, Gaga's been doing this for a while Gaga hibernates all year round, she is ahead of her time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaLuna 12,732 Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 I've always thought we've been doing it wrong, forcing ourselves to keep working and pushing ourselves during winter instead of resting like most animals do. Why do you think people have seasonal depression and get sick all the time in the winter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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