Remembering Ralph von Koenigswald #OnThisDay, paleoanthropologist who led excavations on Java and uncovered Homo erectus fossils. During WWII, he was interned in a prison camp and hid the fossils to keep them safe—some in friends' gardens and one in his wife's purse. #histsci

#OnThisDay in 2002, the face of the incredible, controversial fossil nicknamed Toumaï first appeared on the cover of @nature. The "new hominid from Chad" was named Sahelanthropus tchadensis. Toumaï means hope of life. #fossils

HOMO NALEDI: The Inside Story ~ with NatGeo Explorer KENEILOE MOLOPYANE youtu.be/xboB1P1FFNQ via YouTube

DNA from dirt can offer new view of ancient life sciencemag.org/news/2021/07/d…

The gorgeous skull of Zinjanthropus was discovered #OnThisDay in 1959, by Mary Leakey in Tanzania. The big teeth of this 1.8 million-year-old relative earned it the nickname Nutcracker Man. #fossils #history

#FossilFriday This Neanderthal woman’s cranium from Forbes’ Quarry was discovered in 1848 and is on display ⁦Natural History Museum⁩. Her DNA has been analysed pnas.org/content/116/31…

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The Welker Group is now on Twitter! Follow us to find out about our research into human evolution across the last one million years, through the study of ancient proteins and associated biomolecules preserved in the skeletal remains of hominins and associated fauna.

📢 Job alert 📢 We're looking for a postdoc in computational palaeoproteomics to join our PROSPER project! employment.ku.dk/faculty/?show=…

In the coming period, we will introduce some of our projects! Today we start with @loulemeillour’s #Lookingforconstraint project, funded by the #FyssenFoundation - a thread 🧵-

I had so much fun teaching teenagers about human evolution today!

I’m extremely happy and grateful to have been awarded a research grant from The Leakey Foundation! Exiting year ahead to study the human skeletal proteome 🦴 Welker Group

1. As promised, a nerdy thread on an experiment we collectively performed and resulting in many, many non-significant results. It's focus? Carbon emissions in #palaeoproteomics. Quick access to the paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.isci…

We are hiring 2 PhD students to work on bone fragments to study #Neanderthal-Homo sapiens coexistence: 1 in #zooarchaeology #ZooMS, with @geoffreymsmith and Britt Starkovich. 1 in #archsci #palaeoproteomics, with Helen Fewlass Frido Welker More info: shorturl.at/isABJ

My first PhD paper and first first-author paper is out 🎉 Discover the preservation difference between cortical and trabecular bone proteomes 🦴and how it can affect species IDs through ZooMS and phyloproteomics 🔍 doi.org/10.1016/j.jasr…

Have you ever debated if you should sample cortical or trabecular bone? Find out below our comparison and recommendations 👇

We are excited to share our publication "Middle and Late Pleistocene Denisovan subsistence at Baishiya Karst Cave" out today in Nature. Led by Huan Xia, Dongju Zhang, Jian Wang and Zandra Fagernäs, PhD, you can read the publication here: nature.com/articles/s4158… 🧵

🍝Reminder that our next #PAASTACommunity seminar series talk is NEXT WEEK!🍝 See you Wednesday November 6th at 16:00 CET for Ragnheiður Diljá Ásmundsdóttir's talk!