1 million year old stone tools are found on the island of Flores, but how did (likely Homo erectus) get them onto the island? The nearest Island is 9 km (6 mi) away! Thats about a swimming marathon, perhaps they had boats? #Mysteries of #human #evolution. Fact from Human Origins at SI

Happy Bday Dr. Leakey via The Leakey Foundation

This painting at Chauvet is the oldest known image of a leopard. It was created over 30,000 years ago. The Late Pleistocene leopard (Panthera pardus spelaea) had disappeared from most parts of Europe by 24,000 years BP. Image: Nat Geo 2001 #IceAgeArt #InternationalCatDay

The grass was definitely greener for hominins in Arabia: Homo species dispersed into the green grasslands of the Arabian Peninsula between 300,000 and 500,000 years ago. NatureEcoEvo Nature Middle East (En) natureasia.com/en/nmiddleeast…

Double Burial near Nazareth, Israel. Adult Female AMH (Qafzeh 9) and Child (Qafzeh 10) ~100,000 yrs old

Humans didn't evolve from living apes, but share a common ancestor with them. Newer evolutionary trees do a great job depicting human beings as another living primate among many intelligent creatures, rather than the 'top' of an evolutionary tree.

Ask us how you can incorporate human evolution into your biology curricula! 💀👩‍🏫

.Dr. Amanda L. (Glaze) Townley writes about the importance of empathy and listening when discussing the intersection of religion and science, as well as the danger inherent in pending creationist legislation in the Alabama House of Representatives @PLOSBlogs #scicomm blogs.plos.org/scicomm/2018/0…

Congratulations to the 14 projects that received funding from SSE's small grants program! This program funds a wide range of local and regional educational outreach activities to promote the public understanding of evolutionary biology. Learn more here: goo.gl/Um4Mv2

Dr. Charlie Cobb showing prospective grad students around the Florida Museum of Natural History. #UFAnthropology

I often ponder why women in science, with equal or better citations, publication records etc. to mine do not hold full professor positions, or Chairs, as I do. Even if they hold academic administrative positions? This needs to change.

Hi all! Please share this project with the teachers in your life, they should know they have these open access resources available to them! #ShareTheKnowledge

Hey Wits_News Wits Alumni check out the #Virtualreality of the #dinaledichamber now on display at our partner museum the Perot Museum Center for the Exploration of the Human Journey m.youtube.com/watch?feature=… coming to everyone soon!

We're all about #brains this #FossilFriday Perot Museum. Has #Homonaledi ID'ed the mystery skull in the BioLab? #3Dprinted cranium from @morphosource. (Endocast is in the #3Dprinter queue)

The bust of Elisabeth Daynes reconstruction of MH-2 the female Paratype of #sediba for the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History ensconced in my office in #Johannesburg #Malapa #Wits #Natgeo