What separates humans from chimps? Less than you think.
A 2026 study found 69 culturally transmitted behaviours in a single chimp community — grooming, foraging, wound care.
Goodall + Washburn + Dunbar. All in one finding. 📌 P1-Unit 1.5 🧵
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Ladakh: 97% tribal population, zero legislature since 2019, 4 protesters dead — and the demand is still just two words: Statehood + 6th Schedule.
A live case in tribe-state relations, land alienation & constitutional asymmetry. Full breakdown below.
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@DrRajeevChavan1@UnderStandUpsc Rightly pointed out sir. In addition to elwin and haimendorf, highlighting the works of J.P.Mills( laid foundations for Naga anthropology) would make answer holistic.
Denotified Tribes & Census 2027:
A powerful Anthropology case study on stigma, labelling, tribe–caste continuum, classification and the politics of enumeration. A useful Paper II example for sharper UPSC answers. #UPSC#Anthropology#Tribes#CSE
Denisovans confirmed in SW China! Bianfu Cave, Yunnan: 5 fossils incl. first Denisovan radius, ~167–134 ka, identified via ancient proteins. #UPSC#Anthropology#HumanEvolution #Denisovans#Archeology
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Spiritual powers are always linked to social hierarchy, whoever holds the power in real world holds spiritual powers (directly or indirectly). The only exception where spiritual power is independent of society is where the social structure itself does not have any order.
@Khushboo_375@csebhai Earlier ( before 2021) they were explicitly asked , question were often verbatim from upsc syllabus keywords.
But post 2021 mains, upsc has shifted towards implicit theme based questions with in depth knowledge wrt conceptual clarity, value additions like specific case studies
Can an Anthropology Test Series predict 80-90% of the actual UPSC Mains Paper?Yes, ours did. 🎯
We meticulously matched our ANTHROPOS test questions with the 2025/2026 Mains paper.
See the side-by-side breakdown for yourself 👇
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