Check out our latest paper on chimpanzee birth that shows us how great apes can help shed light on the evolution of our own complex birth mechanism 🐵 nature.com/articles/s4155…

Habemus new Dra! Enhorabuena Julia Muñoz Guarinos del laboratorio EH y sus directores Rebeca García y #josemiguelcarretero de la Universidad Burgos

Great work by Christopher M. Smith! Check out how closely related taxa show distinctive morphologies in their inner ear.

🦴🔬 The inner ear of Neanderthals reveals clues about their enigmatic origin! A new study led by researchers from Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont and Universidad Alcalá explores the evolution of our closest relatives. 🧵👇

🦴🔬 L'oïda interna dels neandertals revela pistes sobre el seu enigmàtic origen! Un nou estudi dirigit per investigadors de Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont i Universidad Alcalá explora l'evolució dels nostres parents més propers. 🧵👇

New paper supporting the hypothesis that a late bottleneck may have given rise to a late Pleistocene Neanderthal-derived morphology. Congrats! Alessandro Urciuoli Nacho Martinez Mendizabal #RolfQuam Juan Luis Arsuaga #BrianAKeeling Ju #MercedesCondeValverde nature.com/articles/s4146…

#Neanderthal inner ear morphology suggests their origin may not involve a genetic bottleneck, challenging previous theories. Fossil analysis reveals unexpected diversity in early Neanderthal ancestors. Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont Nature Communications doi.org/g85pp3 phys.org/news/2025-02-e…

Migrating from Twitter (X or whatever) to bluesky, possibly a day too late as our latest paper was just published! Please check it out here bsky.app/profile/a-urci… and on Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146…

Fully funded PhD position on Hominin Life History Evolution available in my new lab University of Zurich Please retweet! Link: uzh-my.sharepoint.com/my?id=%2Fperso…

New paper alert! 🦧 Described a new dryopithecine talus from the Vallès-Penedès basin to inform about crown hominoid locomotor evolution 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aj… with Shubham Pal, Thomas Püschel , Alessandro Urciuoli , Víctor Vinuesa, Josep M. Robles, Sergio Almécija David M. Alba

There are still some days left for applying to our fully funded, 4 years PhD position at University of Zurich! Application details in the thread.

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