#paleoanthropology is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 15 people shared 41 posts with it — around 1 a day. Activity is down 40% versus the previous week, peaking on Jul 29 with 5 posts.
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Funding cuts to U.S. archaeology could imperil field’s future
A Science analysis of canceled and curtailed federal grants reveals hits to research, collections, and training
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Primate Phenotypes: A Multi-Institution Collection of 3D Morphological Data Housed in MorphoSource - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Primate Phenotypes: A Multi-Institution Collection of 3D Morphological Data Housed in MorphoSource
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The Brain Ran on Fruit Long Before It Ran on Meat
A new modeling study suggests glucose from fruit and honey, not protein from meat, was the real fuel behind four million years of human brain evolution.
#FossilFriday The Taung child found in South Africa, 1924. Raymond Dart published this in Nature #OTD in Feb. 1925 naming Australopithecus africanus, the "southern ape from Africa", and described this as “an extinct race of apes intermediate between living anthropoids and man"
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Hominin presence in Eurasia by at least 1.95 million years ago - Nature Communications
When hominins dispersed into Eurasia is unclear. Here, the authors present multiple cut-marked bones from Grăunceanu, Romania dated to at least 1.95 million years ago and suggest hominins would have l...
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Beds of Grass and Ash: 200,000 Years of Sleeping Arrangements at Border Cave
A new microscopic study traces how Middle Stone Age people at a South African rock shelter constructed, maintained, and repeatedly burned their bedding across more than 150 millennia
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Hominin presence in Eurasia by at least 1.95 million years ago - Nature Communications
When hominins dispersed into Eurasia is unclear. Here, the authors present multiple cut-marked bones from Grăunceanu, Romania dated to at least 1.95 million years ago and suggest hominins would have l...
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New Science paper: primate brain expansion wasn’t driven by the frontal lobe after all. Endocast scans show vision-processing regions ballooned instead, tracking optic nerve size back 33+ million years. #PaleoAnthropology #BrainEvolution #Primatology www.primatology.net/p/the-eyes-h...
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The Eyes Had It: What Primate Skulls Reveal About the Real Driver of Brain Expansion
A new endocast study of tarsiers, anthropoids, and their relatives finds that vision, not the frontal lobe, explains why primate brains ballooned over 33 million years
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The Brain Ran on Fruit Long Before It Ran on Meat
A new modeling study suggests glucose from fruit and honey, not protein from meat, was the real fuel behind four million years of human brain evolution.
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Genes belonging to two unknown hominin species identified in the DNA of modern humans
An article published in the journal 'Science' reports the discovery of genes belonging to two previously unknown hominin species in the DNA of modern humans. A...
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Two Ghosts in the Genome
How a new method for reading DNA’s family tree found evidence of ancient human relatives who left no bones behind
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