A recording of the 2023 Huxley Lecture 🏺🧪 given by Huxley Memorial Medal winner Prof Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social is now available from the RAI youtu.be/0O6l-PjMgBs

Hybrid event UCL 11 Nov 2025, 18:30. New evidence from China helps to clarify the 'muddle in the middle' of human evolution www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

Evidence from China clarifies the 'muddle in the middle' of human evolution Tickets, Tue, Nov 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM | Eventbrite www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/evidence-f...

Some additional thoughts on Yunxian, Homo longi, Denisovans and the origin of Homo sapiens

Evidence from China clarifies the 'muddle in the middle' of human evolution Tickets, Tue, Nov 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM | Eventbrite www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/evidence-f...

Some additional thoughts on Yunxian, Homo longi, Denisovans and the origin of Homo sapiens

The phylogenetic position of the Yunxian cranium elucidates the origin of Homo longi and the Denisovans | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

My explainer about the Yunxian 2 study

#FossilFriday Replicas of Yunxian 2 reconstruction (L) and Sangiran 17 Homo erectus from Java. Our research indicates that Yunxian is not an erectus, but is an early member of the group containing Homo longi, other Chinese fossils, and Denisovan material

#FossilFriday Replicas of Yunxian 2 reconstruction (L) and Sangiran 17 Homo erectus from Java. Our research indicates that Yunxian is not an erectus, but is an early member of the group containing Homo longi, other Chinese fossils, and Denisovan material

The phylogenetic position of the Yunxian cranium elucidates the origin of Homo longi and the Denisovans 🏺🧪 Xiaobo Feng, @chrisbstringer.bsky.social et al www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Morphometric and phylogenetic analyses suggest it is an early member of H. longi clade, which includes Denisovans

#Yunxian 🏺🧪

#Yunxian 🏺🧪 Reconstruction of Yunxian 2, identified as an early member of the Homo longi (Dragon Man) lineage. This group also contains other Chinese and Denisovan fossils. Phylogenetic analyses suggest heidelbergensis, neanderthalensis, sapiens and longi lineages all originated more than 1 mya.

Million-Year-Old Skull Pushes Back Homo Sapiens Origins By 400,000 Years www.iflscience.com/million-year...

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

#Yunxian 🏺🧪 Discovered in Hubei Province in 1990, Yunxian 2 skull has been at the center of a taxonomic confusion for the past 35 years Million-Year-Old Skull Pushes Back Homo Sapiens' Origins By 400,000 Years www.iflscience.com/million-year... With comments by @chrisbstringer.bsky.social

#ESHE2025 Antonietta del Bove ‘Dusting off the oldest fossils: a re-examination of the temporal bone from Castel di Guido (Italy)’ ~400 Ka; amazing fauna, Acheulean lithics & bone tools Homs: 7 MNI. Temporal bone: GMM; affs to NEA & SH (inclination of mastoid & zygoma) – but not clearly either

#ESHE2025 Flavien Gomez ‘ Reassessing the Montmaurin-La Nice mandible: divergent phylogenetic signals and implications for hominin diversity during MIS 7’ ASUDAS to score teeth & mand traits; 20 fossils, 4 spp, 14 arch sites. Montmaurin: eNea affs, sp dentally (mands > primitive)

My explainer about the Yunxian 2 study

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

Million-Year-Old Skull Pushes Back Homo Sapiens Origins By 400,000 Years www.iflscience.com/million-year...

The phylogenetic position of the Yunxian cranium elucidates the origin of Homo longi and the Denisovans | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Look out for some news on Thursday evening!

Look out for some news on Thursday evening!

#Homonaledi was announced #OTD in 2015. Here is my commentary, published that day. Human Evolution: The many mysteries of Homo naledi doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

The c. 4200-3600 BC Trypillia settlements of Europe were so-called 'mega-sites', having populations of up to 10,000 people. Evenly-sized houses suggest that they were egalitarian, meaning large populations did not necessarily cause higher inequality. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Evolution of thumbnails across Rodentia | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Cumulative impacts to global marine ecosystems projected to more than double by midcentury | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Patterns of genetic admixture reveal similar rates of borrowing across diverse scenarios of language contact | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Exited to have such a great set of speakers for Ancient genomes: perspectives on human biology and medicine The program is now online and registration is still open! registrations.hg3conferences.co.uk/hg3/frontend...

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! 🤩

London November 14th 2025

Hominin skull from Petralona Cave dated to be at least 286,000 years old New U-series dates on the Petralona cranium, a key fossil in European human evolution 🏺🧪 Christophe Falguères, Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social, et al www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Melting glaciers threaten to wipe out European villages - is the steep cost to protect them worth it? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What are the known unknowns of #humanevolution? Learn about it in my interview with Chris Stringer youtu.be/GlvbKXrGo34

Radiation with reproductive isolation in the near-absence of phylogenetic signal | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Consciousness as pre-linguistic internalized listener that filters 'meaning space' non-destructively for social familiarity-alignment markers to dramatically accelerate language and cultural learning philpapers.org/rec/FISCAP-12

Unlocking maps of Aboriginal ‘sky country’ cosmosmagazine.com/space/astron...

Unveiling the multifunctional use of ochre in the Middle Stone Age: Specialized ochre retouchers from Blombos Cave | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The genomic history of Iberian horses since the last Ice Age www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Book review Ice Age art www.redbrick.me/book-review-...

Book review Ice Age art www.redbrick.me/book-review-...

The genomic history of Iberian horses since the last Ice Age www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Unveiling the multifunctional use of ochre in the Middle Stone Age: Specialized ochre retouchers from Blombos Cave | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Unlocking maps of Aboriginal ‘sky country’ cosmosmagazine.com/space/astron...