African Fossil Hotspots Skew Human Evolution Picture miragenews.com/african-fossil…

In my paper out today, coauthor Bernard Wood and I explore the potential impacts of a spatially limited fossil record on understanding human evolution. We do this using two "thought experiments", focusing on the Eastern African Rift Valley. (1/4)

A 4.3-million-year-old Australopithecus anamensis mandible from Ileret... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

#FossilFriday KNM-ER 63000 is a new mandible of Australopithecus anamensis just presented, dated to 4.3 Ma (!) which means a temporal overlap with fossils of Ardipithecus ramidus. ➡️doi.org/10.1016/j.jhev…

Hugely exciting - 1st comprehensively identified bone spear point from a #Neanderthal site! Found some time ago at #AbricRomaní but recently analysed in detail, likely hafted by being held directly in wood shaft & fixed with (plant?) cord. nature.com/articles/s4159…

Do ancient human fossils in Africa tell the whole story, or is there a bias? cosmosmagazine.com/history/archae…

THE BACHELOR / A laid-back young male proboscis monkey with a gentle look on his face doing what we humans also love to do: Observing conspecifics. From the mangrove of Borneo.

Sima de los huesos neanderthal cranium 17

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Arizona State University Institute of Human Origins and the IHO Research Council invite you to A Lucy 50th Anniversary event, Archaic Genomics An evening with Nobel Laureate Svante Pääbo. Register: iho.asu.edu/Lucy50/Paabo

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Homo longi based on theamazing Harbin skull

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

#OnThisDay, Charles Darwin met a Neanderthal. That evening, he wrote to his best friend, telling him "F. brought me the wonderful Gibraltar skull." darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=…

You know I'm deep in book edits when I'm a day late with this one: It was late afternoon On Sept 2, 2003 when Homo floresiensis was discovered six meters below ground. Here's the specimen still embedded in the cave floor. 📸Liang Bua Team #OnThisDay

For years Eons has been making tremendous videos diving deep on the history of life on Earth. Meanwhile, David Silva is an artist who creates accurate, articulated figures of pre-historic animals. NOW WE ARE TEAMING UP ON THE COOLEST DANG THING!!!

The effort to save Hakai Magazine.com is fully underway. So far, we've lined up commitments worth about half of what we need to keep publishing. Ideally, we want one or two more large foundations or donations to give us a solid floor before we throw the doors to reader donations.

Bacho Kiro Cave in Bulgaria provides key insights into the technological & behavioral #evolution of pioneer Homo sapiens in #Europe. New paper in PLOS ONE by Tsenka Tsanova & an intl. research team. MPI-EVA Leipzig Università di Bologna See: tinyurl.com/4rvhmpre & journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

“The past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past.” I kept thinking of that line from American novelist William Faulkner as Shraddha Chakradhar and I worked on a special series in Science. Catching up with a thread. science.org/content/articl…