Are digits modified fins, or evolutionary innovations? Read how we tackled this old question from a new angle🧪 A story with @chasebolt.bsky.social, @homeobox.bsky.social and myself, coordinated by @denisduboule.bsky.social from @college-de-france.fr and published in @nature.com today! #InHoxWeTrust

1) I am delighted to present this terrific tour de force research conducted by my post-doc Dr. Gayani Senevirathne @gayani.bsky.social and published today in Nature - www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#Behaviour2025 – Join us tomorrow for Weaving the MacaqueNet 3.0 & connect with our international community of macaque researchers! 🐒 The workshop is free & open to all, even if you didn’t sign up yet. 📍 We'll be at the S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, not the main conference venue!

[RDV 16h !] Des flûtes en os de vautour qui remontent à + de 35.000 ans jusqu’aux innovations d’aujourd’hui en passant par les lyres de l’époque gauloise, chaque époque a marqué l’histoire de la musique. Comment retracer cette évolution ? avec Laurent Davin et Julian Cuvilliez

Attending #ESEB2025 has been an amazing experience! If you are interested in more ancient DNA and museomics, please consider joining us in Stockholm for the first International Conference on Palaeogenomics (June 23-26 2026)! Follow @palaeogenomics.bsky.social 👉icp2026.palaeogenomics.org

Léger, pratique, durable : le plastique devait révolutionner notre quotidien. Il l’a fait. Mais aujourd’hui, cette invention est devenue une inondation. Chaque année, des millions de tonnes s’ajoutent. En 2050, ce sera peut-être un milliard. ➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/7oA

I think carrer del Perill is *objectively* the most beautifully decorated of the competition this year... No? 😊 #eseb2025 @eseb2025.bsky.social

On my way to join my very first ESEB conference in Barcelona! 🤩 Come to poster session 3 on Thursday, P110! I'll be happy to exchange about DNA/RNA extractions from bone samples and DNA methylation analyses 🧬 #eseb2025 @eseb.bsky.social @eseb2025.bsky.social

✅ Published in @natureportfolio.nature.com today, the paper describing the initial whole-genome sequencing analysis of 500,000 UK Biobank participants. Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My latest story is based on papers in @science.org and @cp-cell.bsky.social revealing Homo longi aka 'Dragon Man' was a Denisovan - or is it the other way around? Featuring @benceviola.bsky.social, @fridowelker.bsky.social and @chrisbstringer.bsky.social. www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...

A very short summary of "Data Visualization against fascism": Fascism conceals truths, disregards evidence-based decision-making, and jeopardizes the education of the next generation. Standing up against means: MONITOR, EXPOSE, and EDUCATE. As scientists we are ready for this! #TCTeAC

Ce matin dans « Avec Sciences » sur @franceculture.fr avec @alexandradelbot.bsky.social on a parlé de notre dernière recherche sur la #bipédie des #babouin. A retrouver en replay sur cette page : www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Une nouvelle étude révèle que la bipédie occasionnelle des babouins présente des ressemblances avec la nôtre. Avec de légères modifications du bassin, leur locomotion pourrait être aussi "efficace" que celle des humains. Un résultat qui éclaire l'origine de la bipédie humaine Avec François Druelle 🚶

Infant craniofacial diversity in Early Pleistocene Homo www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Together with Sarah Freidline's team, we finally published the bone modeling pattern of the entire human face 💀🎉 doi.org/10.1002/ar.2...

Phalangeal cortical bone distribution reveals different dexterous and climbing behaviors in Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Loin de moi l'envie d'être mauvaise, mais... le CNRS "choose" déjà pas grand monde non ? Viendez donc take un contrat à durée determined, not very well rémunéré, dans des labos mis en compétition to lower the budget alloué à la recherche ?

Very excited to be part of two manuscripts which are now on biorxiv! arxiv.org/pdf/2504.15156 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Archaic humans such as Neanderthals and Denisovans are extinct but their DNA lives on in many humans today because our ancestors met and had children with them.

We are looking forward to this online only talk with @helenfewlass.bsky.social as part of the #HEASSeminar series in #ArchaeologicalScience taking place on Monday the 28th April at 12:30 CEST. Registration and more information on our website 🔗👇 www.heas.at/events/heas-...

📢Registration is now open for the 15th annual ESHE meeting in Paris! Join us in person or online this September. Details & deadlines: bit.ly/3G9CeiQ #ESHE2025

Incredibly proud that our paper on the #palaeoproteomics analysis of the Penghu mandible, led by @tsutatsuta.bsky.social and in collaboration with Chun-Hsiang Chang, Enrico Cappellini and co, is out now in @science.org! doi.org/10.1126/scie...

#JobAlert! Nous cherchons un opérateur de numérisation pour le projet e-COL+. Si vous avez de l'expérience avec la numérisation 3D (acquisition ou post-traitement) et avec les collections naturalistes, n'hésitez pas à postuler : recrutement.mnhn.fr/front-jobs-d... 🗓️ Deadline : 30 avril 2025

🚨14.000 years of population history revealed!🚨 What happened to the late prehistoric populations in the Nile Valley? Our new study uncovers major migrations, population replacement and regional mobility at the Neolithic transition! 1/7🧵 👇 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We are looking forward to welcoming Matthew Skinner @matthewskinnerphd.bsky.social to Vienna next week for a #HEASSeminar in #HumanEvolutionandthePalaeolithic. Registration for online and in-person participation is on our website 🔗👇 www.heas.at/events/heas-...

A new study shows that humans’ small faces are unique, in part because they stop growing in adolescence. 🧪

Really happy to see this paper out, using field biomechanics we show that wild chimpanzees don't just randomly select plants materials for termite fishing tools – they use a little “folk physics” choosing materials with specific properties! Study in iScience www.cell.com/iscience/ful.... 1/5

Very happy to share our new paper on human facial development and evolution out today in JHE 🎉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵👇

Western Europe’s oldest face adds new wrinkles to human evolution The face fossils date to as early as 1.4 million years ago www.sciencenews.org/article/west...

Archaeologists in Israel Uncover One of the Oldest Burial Grounds in the World www.haaretz.com/archaeology/...

My thoughts on the Tinshemet discoveries in Israel (Nature Human Behaviour)

L’administration Trump interdit certains termes scientifiques dans les agences fédérales. Une guerre contre la vérité est en marche. ➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/M2w

#StandUpForScience France. Demain vendredi 7 mars : Liste des évènements dans toutes les villes (par ordre alphabétique) 👇

New fossils described in the Journal of Human Evolution - The first articulated Paranthropus robustus hip, femur, and tibia from Swartkrans (~2.3–1.7 Ma) reveal one of the smallest known adult hominins. Morphological analysis provides new insights into Early Pleistocene locomotion:

🧪 Just out! Our team’s philosopher, M. Lequin, paleoanthropologist colleagues @thomascolard.bsky.social @antonycolombo.bsky.social @alexandraschuh.bsky.social "Investigating Development in Human Evolution" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social

ESHE 2025 goes to Paris, France! Join us in person for talks and posters from Sept 25–27, with a public keynote on Sept 24. Excursion details are coming soon. More info on the meetings page this March! #ESHE2025

The Tai Chimpanzee Project is making available microCT scans from their collections on human-fossil-record.org. All proceeds are used to support their mission of conservation and non-invasive research in Tai National Park (taichimpproject.org).

🔬 How did past societies adapt to their environments? The First Scientific Session at #VCWAP2025 explores subsistence, technology, and resource use across time. Join us to uncover the science behind human-environment interactions! #archaeology #paleontology #womeninscience

I am very happy to share our new paper on the genetics of some of the first modern humans who ever lived in Europe! We sequenced nuclear DNA from 13 specimens from Ranis in Germany, and found that they belonged to at least 6 individuals. www.nature.com/articles/s41... (1/n)

Very excited (and a bit nervous) to announce that I will be hiring two Postdocs for my new group(!) in Copenhagen to study the Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA which survives in present-day humans. Retweet will be much appreciated :) Link for application: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

#Communiqué 🗞️ Jusqu’au 31 janvier 2025, le CNRS invite le public à participer à une grande consultation nationale en partenariat avec Make.org. Cette initiative inédite vise à recueillir les attentes des Français en matière de sciences. 👉 make.org/FR/consultat... #SciencesPourDemain

I had the privilege to visit the wonderful cimitero storico-monumentale Della Certosa during my stay in Bologna. A must-seen!