My new book is out! 📖 Exploring the Evolution of Our Ancestors: On the Human Track 🌍 It shows how diet, brains, locomotion & skin shaped our bodies through evolution—written for both students & curious readers. 👉 Routledge, Amazon, Indigo, Barnes & Noble, ... @crcpressphysics.bsky.social

Danial Forouhar (from @dadriaens.bsky.social lab) had amazing 3D images of the muscluoskeletal system of seahorse tails, which opened lots of exciting questions about how these body muscles actuate tail prehension.

Soon my book on human evolution will be available in English, published by CRC Press. Will keep you posted on the release date. With special thanks to Charles R. Crumly for making this possible.

Fruitful collaboration on #biomimetics, about robotic prehensile systems inspired by #seahorse tails, showing how robotics research can allow to test hypotheses on adaptive evolution in biology. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

#CTpost #3 🩻🐎🐟 The tail of a seahorse has a square section ⏹️, it's prehensile and covered in armored plates. If you #µCT scan it (rendering in right image), you'll see the plates interlock around the vertebrae. But why a square? (1/2) 🧪 #science #fish www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Hard biting #birds are slow singers - which has more consequences than you might think! In my newest article, published in The Conversation, you can learn about how beak size affects the singing and #evolution of songbirds. 🪶 theconversation.com/hard-bites-a... #ornithology #scicomm #science

Do you use 3D imaging like CT or MRI for research, teaching, outreach, or art? Check out our new article featuring a detailed workflow for producing 3D cinematic renderings―from tissue-level to whole-organism details―with stunning realism! doi.org/10.1016/j.is... @helsinkiuni.bsky.social

How human brains got so big: our cells learned to handle the stress that comes with size www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New paper! For all of you working with 3d scans (e.g. micro-CT, MRI), check out SPROUT, a rapid open-source tool for generating segmented and parcellated data, meaning your scans are separated into the individual elements without any manual labelling or training. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...