Would love to hear/read thoughts (beyond mainstream media) about the Yunxian paper out this week (esp in relation to the two recent papers on the paleoproteomics and mtDNA of Harbin). Exact dates aside, do we need to ask new questions about how members of these clades behaved/ were differentiated?

🎙️ 📻 New Heredity Podcast! We talk with @caitismuheil.bsky.social and Jessica McNeill about their work showing the sensitivity of meiosis to temperature and what this might mean for populations in a warming world. @ncstate.bsky.social @gensocuk.bsky.social Episode: shows.acast.com/heredity-pod...

I discuss the ~1 million year old Yunxian cranium.. youtu.be/YmtjPnuaUro?...

Very important paper out today for Homo sapiens origins 🤩

Nice story on Reich's research on ancient DNA "Claims of pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no." 🏺🧪 news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

‼️📣Extremely proud to see this great collaborative work out! Oldest Shell Ornament Workshop in Western Europe at Saint-Césaire: www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1... #Prehistory #Archaeology #Chatelperronian #Shells #Beads #Homosapiens #Neandertal #Ornament Details of discovery & implications ⏬ 🧵 1/20

We are looking for someone to review this great book for @ishe-society.bsky.social 😊 Please DM me for details!

New Sausage of Science episode! Dr. Luisa María Rivera is a critical biocultural anthropologist whose work examines how social inequality, trauma, and structural violence shape reproductive and maternal–infant health. Listen Here: soundcloud.com/sausageofsci...

At @ishe-society.bsky.social, we are looking for someone to review @mgurven.bsky.social new book, "Seven decades" for Human Ethology. It looks terribly interesting! DM/email for details (and to get a hard copy 😊) @princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Released today! SEVEN DECADES: HOW WE EVOLVED TO LIVE LONGER Now available at your favorite bookseller. Leave a review on Goodreads or Amazon if you can. Please help spread the word! #sevendecades @princetonupress.bsky.social

💙New paper!💙 How is knowledge transmitted across generations in a foraging society? With @danielredhead.bsky.social we found: In BaYaka foragers, long-term skills pass in smaller, sparser networks, while short-term food info circulates broadly & reciprocally academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Au cours de la dernière décennie écoulée, de nombreuses questions ont traversé les scientifiques : pourquoi Néandertal a-t-il disparu ? Pourquoi n'a-t-on pas tous la même couleur de peau ? etc. Retrouvez un condensé de ces réflexions :https://www.mnhn.fr/fr/dix-ans-de-questions-au-musee-de-l-homme

We're organizing a new CARTA symposium this November 7 on "Ancient DNA: New Revelations"! We have an amazing lineup of speakers who will showcase the biggest discoveries in ancient DNA over the past 5 years - and offer a sneak peek of what's next. Mark your calendars and don't miss it!

@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised! 3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution 2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions. Please share and apply! www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

You've heard of the human "cognitive revolution" around 40 kya—a moment when our species suddenly became "behaviorally modern." Have you also heard that this story is wrong? From the archive, our episode w/ @elliescerri.bsky.social & @manuelwill.bsky.social! Listen: disi.org/revisiting-t...

This paper is wild. www.nature.com/articles/s41... "Clonal males may thus be regarded as organelles at the superorganism level". Whatever mitochondrial challenges you may face, at least none of your organelles is an ENTIRE INSECT.

Ravie d'avoir participé hier à la nouvelle émission de @franceculture.fr 'Les chantiers de la recherche' animée par Guillaume Erner. Voici le lien pour écouter l’émission ! www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Nice piece by @mathiesoniain.bsky.social on polygenic prediction of human complex traits using ancient DNA (h/t @evobioclio.bsky.social ) 🧪🧬 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A genetic flip helped turn us into upright walkers. Here’s my evo-devo story about the ilium. Gift link: nyti.ms/45BOenz

I couldn’t be more excited about being given the chance to present some of the work we do at @eegcam.bsky.social this November & to listen to the talks by such an incredible line up of speakers! 🤩

New paper on reference/mapping bias, its impact on estimating ancestry proportions and a a genotype likelihood to adjust for it in #aDNA studies: doi.org/10.1093/g3jo... by @trstngnthr.bsky.social et al

Join us on Wednesday for our final webinar of series by @jcsvenning.bsky.social on: “Deep-time, large-scale perspectives on biodiversity and ecosystems: implications for biosphere stewardship in the Anthropocene.” More information and link to register here: www.gea.mpg.de/168423/deep-...

Join us for Ancient DNA: New Revelations, a free CARTA public symposium! 🧬💡 Friday, November 7, 2025 1:00–5:30 PM (Pacific) In-person at the Salk Institute & Live Webcast For more details and registration, visit: carta.anthropogeny.org #carta #cartaucsd #ancientdna

📣 #HAAMcommunity is looking for early career researchers working on human #aDNA & #popgen for the upcoming elections 🌎🌍🌏 Feel free to reach out if you have any questions or want to chat about this. Apply here (ignore the deadline in the form): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Thank you @prelights.bsky.social & Alejandra Leffer's group for choosing our preprint on @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social and for this chance to talk about human- #malaria coevolution!🦟 @eegcam.bsky.social @elliescerri.bsky.social @MPI_GEA

Long-term coexistence of #huntergatherers and incoming #farmers during the European #neolithic https://phys.org/news/2025-08-neolithic-agriculture-hunter-farmers-coexisted.html

🚨 We are hiring!! 🚨 The Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS' is looking for: - a scientific coordinator - a science communication officer 🚨 Deadline: September 15 🚨 See links for the full advertisements: uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Don’t forget to register! 🧬🏃🏽‍♀️

This is super cool. New paper: "New discoveries of Australopithecus and Homo from Ledi-Geraru, Ethiopia," phys.org/news/2025-08... 🧪🏺

Such a cool paper, congrats to Joseph, @lauradees.bsky.social & everyone 🤩

New paper alert! I demonstrate that C,N stable isotope values in food chains differ between different types of (wetland and dryland) landscapes. This hampers their potential for archaeological diet reconstruction. #isotopes #diet 1/2 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

If someone you know buys into claims about "genetic optimization" of embryos using polygenic scores of cognition, just send them our 2024 paper on Beethoven & musicality. We wrote it to help communicate limits of individual-level genetic predictions & complexity of links between DNA & behaviour. 🧪👇

📕 A team led by Tomàs Marquès-Bonet, #IBE_Barcelona, ICREA researcher and Chair at #UPFBiomed has tested a tool capable of identifying the geographic origin of #chimpanzees seized from illegal trafficking networks using their #DNA.🐒🧬 👉https://shorturl.at/GsO9c

🚨🧬New #preprint and R package from the lab out in @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social🧬🚨: 'tidygenclust' combines the functionality of ADMIXTURE, fastmixture and Clumppling into R - allowing for reproducible clustering analyses and plotting all in one place! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

What a fantastic new paper out today in @pnas.org: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... - and what a great resource, summarising the climatic niche of primates and tackling the hypothesis on whether primates evolved in warm tropical forests 😍

So happy to see my first PhD paper out royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... With my amazing supervisor @robinmorrison.bsky.social and the @savinggorillas.bsky.social, we examined female dispersal decisions in mountain gorillas.

✅ 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...

Loved listening to this discussion, and so pleased our research on the gorillas monitored by @savinggorillas.bsky.social, led by the fantastic Vic Martignac is resonating with so many!

Ahora os podéis leer el artículo que escribí para @sapiens.org también en español: www.sapiens.org/es/biology-e... 🌸

This is such an interesting conversation, and it’s so exciting just thinking about what paleoproteomics across Atapuerca could bring to our understanding of human evolution 🤩 go.ivoox.com/rf/154368835

An Early View: A new commentary by @andyjmwalton.bsky.social, Dr Aylward, Prof Thomas, and ‪Dr @adamrutherford.bsky.social revisit the intellectual origins of #panmixia, revealing how essentialist assumptions shaped its early adoption in evolutionary theory, long before the Modern Synthesis.

Really cool study looking at how behaviour precedes morphological change across taxa - and implications for human evolution 💀🧪 massive congrats to all the authors, including @vivek123.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Nice piece highlighting the importance of food processing in human evolution: “Next time you sit down for a meal, appreciate the food-processing revolution—pounding, cooking, mashing done by women—that opened humans to a diversity of foods that allowed us to thrive in all the world’s environments”

Some fun unpublished data from a talk I gave years ago on the sexual division of labor (SDOL) among the Batek of Malaysia. The Batek have been described as highly gender-egalitarian. Kirk and Karen Endicott collected the data in 1975-76, back when the Batek were fully nomadic foragers.

Two useful new reviews on ancestry inference in population genetics: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Check out our recent review 'Power and Limitations of Inferring Genetic Ancestry'- what do we even mean by the term 'genetic ancestry' and what do commonly-used methods actually tell us?

Telomere-to-telomere DNA sequencing is set to transform the field of human genetics in coming years. For a flavour of what's coming, see this exciting work on nearly complete genomes of 65 individuals from diverse populations, out today in @nature.com by @glennislogsdon.bsky.social & colleagues. 👇🧬🧪

Una oportunidad increíble

This is really sad news. Sapiens was a fantastic medium to share, promote and diversify anthropology and the platform where many people (like me) learnt and developed skills in science communication. Times are tough, but Sapiens’ niche is now left empty ☹️ wennergren.org/article/sapi...

#SAfA2025 kicks off today in #Faro, #Portugal! Hosted by #ICArEHB, we’re ready to welcome the global #AfricanistArchaeology community for a week of connection and knowledge-sharing at the #CrossroadsThroughTime.