Comparison of hands and grip in
#Australopithecussediba (2 MA) and #Homonaledi (300-250 Ka) shows presence of dextrous (tool use?) and climbing adaptation
Hubris by Johannes Krause and Thomas Trappe review – learning from the #Neanderthals
Why did we succeed when other #hominins didn’t, and can lessons from our evolutionary past help rein in our destructive impulses?
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/dec/27/hubris-by-johannes-krause-and-thomas-trappe-review-learning-from-the-neanderthals #science #HumanEvolution #BookReview #newBooks
28-Nov-2024
A fossil first: Scientists find 1.5-million-year-old footprints of two different species of human ancestors at same spot
Discovery by international team, including Rutgers researcher, proves theory that some ancient #hominins were neighbors
I saw a pop sci article yesterday waxing poetic about neanderthal language.
I want to make it clear: If you read someone talking about how neanderthal brain structure suggests they were incapable of metaphor, stop reading.
It's garbage. We can't know that.
And we are constantly surprised pikachu even with hominins with smaller brains than ours - neanderthals had bigger brains than we do.
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-oldest-known-burial-site-in-the-world-wasnt-created-by-our-species
A Critical Boom in Technology Traced Back More Than Half a Million Years
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-critical-boom-in-technology-traced-back-more-than-half-a-million-years #anthropology #archaeology #StoneTools #technology #hominins #CumulativeCulture
The Usual Suspects:
Interspecific Competition Played Key Role in Rise and Fall of Hominins, Study Suggests
https://www.sci.news/othersciences/anthropology/hominin-interspecific-competition-12866.html #anthroplogy #hominins #InterspecificCompetition
17-APR-2024
Interspecies competition led to even more forms of ancient human – defying evolutionary trends in vertebrates
Competition between species played a major role in the rise and fall of #hominins – and produced a “bizarre” evolutionary pattern for the #Homo lineage – according to a new University of Cambridge study that revises the start and end dates for many of our early ancestors.
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1041250 #science #HumanEvolution #anthropology
#Zouhaïr #Ben #Amor: L’homme #artiste
La capacité #artistique chez les #hominines reflète une #évolution complexe de la #cognition, de la #communication et de l'expression #culturelle. Cette #évolution artistique commence bien avant l'apparition d' #Homosapiens, suggérant une profondeur #historique de la créativité et de la pensée symbolique dans la lignée #humaine.
https://www.leaders.com.tn/article/35730-zouhair-ben-amor-l-homme-artiste
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Morning person?
'...A new research paper finds that genetic material from #Neanderthal ancestors may have contributed to the propensity of some people today to be "early risers,"..."
"...#Neanderthals and #Denisovans, had lived in #Eurasia for more than 400,000 years. These archaic #hominins diverged from modern humans around...
https://mastodon.world/@jeffowski/111586081664549630
ORIGINAL Source:
https://phys.org/news/2023-12-neanderthals-morning-people.html
"Scientists have discovered a trove of nearly 600 #obsidian hand-axes that were crafted more than 1.2 million years ago in #Ethiopia by an unknown group of #hominins, the family consisting of modern humans and our many extinct relatives".
"The new study opens a tantalizing window into the mysterious hominin community that lived in this river ecosystem 1.2 million years ago, and learned to take advantage of some of the most challenging resources in its environment."
"Archaeologists Discover 1.2 Million-Year-Old 'Workshop'"
"Scientists have discovered a trove of nearly 600 obsidian hand-axes that were crafted more than 1.2 million years ago in Ethiopia by an unknown group of hominins, the family consisting of modern humans and our many extinct relatives, reports a new study.
The discovery pushes the timeline of obsidian tool use back by an astonishing 500,000 years, and reveals that the hominins who lived in this part of Ethiopia, known as Melka Kunture, must have been considerably skilled crafters in order to work with this capricious material."
Exciting new research on the origins of #bipedalism in early #hominins around 7,000,000 yrs ago: Moving on 2 legs while foraging in treetops in an otherwise open habitat was essential to the devt'ment of bipedalism among ancestors of humans - contradicting the idea that it arose as an adaptation to spending more time on the ground.
And the original paper is at https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sic adv.add9752
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/dec/14/bipedalism-foraging-research?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
A model suggests that humans arrived in northern #Europe much earlier than #fossils and stone tools suggest. In PNAS Journal Club: https://www.pnas.org/post/journal-club/humans-could-have-arrived-northern-europe-earlier-than-fossils-and-stone-tools-suggest #HumanEvolution #hominins
#GreatPaper alert! DNA of a Neanderthal population from Chagyrskaya cave (including a father-daughter pair!), suggesting female migration across communities.
The paper provides unprecedented insights into the social organization of Neanderthals.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05283-y
(Photo and reconstruction by Kennys & Kennys)
I'm a #paleoanthropologist who studies the development & #evolution of skeletal sex differences in #hominins & living people. My research is #TeamPelvis & centered in #feminism & #anthropology theory.
As an assistant professor at an #osteopathic medical school in the midwest, I teach human gross #anatomy & an elective on #LGBTQIA+ health.