Hacker News with Generative AI: Human Evolution

Systemic proteome adaptions to 7-day complete caloric restriction in humans (nature.com)
Surviving long periods without food has shaped human evolution.
The Larger Brains of Humans Come with a Tragic Cost, Study Finds (sciencealert.com)
Intelligence has allowed our species to not just survive, but thrive across a range of environments. But new research reveals our advantageous smarts come at a cost: a much greater susceptibility to brain decay.
Human population dynamics in Paleolithic inferred from fossil dental phenotypes (science.org)
Neanderthals and humans interbred 47k years ago for 7k years, research suggests (livescience.com)
Magic Mushrooms May Have Shaped Our Consciousness (popularmechanics.com)
Mitochondrial Eve (wikipedia.org)
Neanderthals did not go extinct, we assimilated them (elpais.com)
The most ancient human genome yet has been sequenced – and it's a Denisovan's (science.org)
Brain size riddle solved as humans exceed evolutionary trend (phys.org)
Fossil of Neanderthal child with Down's syndrome hints early humans' compassion (theguardian.com)
Humans began to rapidly accumulate technological knowledge 600k years ago (news.asu.edu)
Born to run? Endurance running may have evolved to help humans chase down prey (science.org)
How many bathrooms have Neanderthals in the tile? (johnhawks.net)