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This looks like a great event! Minor correction in the tag though: we are not involved, but Inst of HumanOrigins is. ☺️

🚨 Call for Submissions! Our All From One Grant is now open to support groundbreaking palaeontology projects. 🌍🔬 If your research aligns with human origins, climate change, or biodiversity, this is for you! Closing date: 15 November Visit past.org.za/grants/ for details

Our fall free online HOT (Human Origins Today) Topic Smithsonian NMNH programs kick off on Oct 17 11:30am-12:30 pm ET w/ UC Berkeley's @moorjani_priya! Learn how genomes of contemporary people shed light on archaic ancestry in modern humans. Preregistration required. humanorigins.si.edu/about/events/h…

Get your ticket for Smithsonian Associates online program "Rediscovering Lucy: Our Fossil Forebearer" Tues Dec 3 ​6:45-8:15 pm ET, featuring our own Dr. Rick Potts along with paleoartist John Gurche, who created the 3D early human reconstructions in our exhibit! smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/prog…

Happy Monday! We're in Richmond, Virginia today and for the next few days to do programs at Union Pres. Seminary in conjunction with our traveling library exhibit which is there through November 15. First is a science lecture by our own Dr. Rick Potts today at 6pm! upsem.edu/human/

What does the early Miocene tell us about human origins? Find out during our Nov 21 11:30 am - 12:30 pm ET free online Smithsonian NMNH HOT (Human Origins Today) topic program with University of Minnesota @KieranMcNulty Kieran McNulty Kieran McNulty! Preregistration required. naturalhistory.si.edu/events/aping-h…

Don't miss getting tickets to what we know will be a great Smithsonian Associates online program next month with our own Dr. Rick Potts and paleoartist John Gurche on Tues Dec 3 6:45-8:15 pm ET!

We have a new page on our website that has links to teacher field-tested, freely downloadable teaching materials for general/intro high school biology, including two evolution units (one w/human evolution) and a cultural + religious sensitivity resource! humanorigins.si.edu/education/lear…

While we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Lucy, we also talk about the future of Human Origins research. theconversation.com/fifty-years-af…

Newly discovered footprints show that at least two hominid species were walking through the muddy submerged edge of a lake in Kenya’s Turkana Basin at the same time, about 1.5 million years ago. The find in Science provides physical evidence for the co-existence of multiple

Fossilized footprints reveal 2 extinct hominin species living side by side 1.5 million years ago theconversation.com/fossilized-foo…

Don't miss our final free Smithsonian NMNH online HOT (Human Origins Today) event of 2024! On 12/19 11:30am-12:30pm ET New York University's Shara Bailey Shara Bailey reviews current knowledge of our closest evolutionary cousins: Neanderthals. Preregistration required. naturalhistory.si.edu/events/last-ne…

New findings pin down when the Zlatý kůň woman lived to about 45,000 years ago and shed light on the remarkably mobile lifestyle of the earliest groups of modern humans to enter Europe. scim.ag/3OTRHVq

It's the time of year again for annual research roundup reflections! Hot off the presses, just published today, here's our own Ryan McRae and Briana Pobiner writing about the the top stories in human evolution from 2024 in the PLOS SciComm blog. scicomm.plos.org/2024/12/16/top…

One hundred years ago today, the incredible Taung Child was announced to the world. Surprisingly, the news of a new human ancestor didn't come from a journal but from a local newspaper. How Nature got scooped: fossilhistory.wordpress.com/2016/02/03/tau… 📸 Courtesy University of Witwatersrand

Join us on Feb 20, 11:30 am ET for our first free online HOT (Human Origins Today) Topic talk of 2025 w/Christine France from SmithsonianMCI about using chemical indicators to understand the diet and climate in human evolution. Preregistration required. s.si.edu/4hKWFjR

Are you a biological anthropologist in Baltimore for the #AABA2025 conference? Come visit our Hall of Human Origins at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian NMNH in nearby Washington DC! The museum is open 10:00 am - 5:30 pm every day and there's no entry fee.

Happy 15th birthday to the Smithsonian NMNH Hall of Human Origins!! 🥳 We opened our exhibit to the public on March 17, 2010. Have you been one of the millions of people who has visited in the last 15 years? Tell us about your experience!

#ICYMI, our exhibit - the Smithsonian NMNH Hall of Human Origins - turned 15 years old yesterday! Check out this Smithsonian Magazine blog post about it. smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national…

Next Thursday, join us online from 11:30am-12:30pm ET for our free monthly Smithsonian NMNH HOT (Human Origins Today) Topic talk by Cleveland Museum of Natural History's Dr. Emma Finestone on 'The Origins of Stone Stool Technology'. Preregistration is required. It's gonna rock! naturalhistory.si.edu/events/origins…