How Ancient Humans Evolved to Meditate to Deal With Stress

BY ALICE AMELIA THOMAS, ZENGER NEWS ON 7/8/22 AT 12:17 PM EDT

Scientists have discovered that humans, unlike our Neanderthal cousins, evolved the ability to meditate to deal with both past and future stresses.

Humans and Neanderthals share an important evolutionary stage with the development of parietal lobes.

The key progression awakened the capacity to pay attention and live in the moment, but it has emerged that only humans (Homo sapiens) went on to expand the advantage to the point where individuals had conscious control of their minds.

The study, led by Emiliano Bruner, a paleoneurobiology researcher at the National Research Center on Human Evolution (CENIEH) in Burgos, Spain, and Roberto Colom of the Psychology Department at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), was published in the scientific journal Intelligence.

Bruner combined techniques from archaeology and paleontology to study the evolution of the brain.

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