Human evolution was shaped by multiple human species living side by side, from Neanderthals in Europe to Denisovans in Asia, before all but one disappeared. The Other Humans: Why We Survived?🏺🧪 The Ancients with Tristan Hughes joined by Ella Al-Shamahi shows.acast.com/the-ancients...

The example of the approximately 75 000-year-old Shanidar Z Neanderthal illustrates the importance of appropriate conservation from excavation to the laboratory, and of the detailed documentation of this process. Conservation of the Shanidar Z Neanderthal🏺🧪 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A review of European Middle Pleistocene hominin evolution🏺🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Shows that mosaic morphology and variable derivation can arise within a single structured population. Argues that trait-by-trait approaches inflate phylogenetic fragmentation of the fossil record.

How migration and DNA are rewriting prehistory This follows scientists from Trinity College Dublin and across Europe, as they extract DNA to reveal the true faces of European ancestors Archeologists Investigate Newly Discovered DNA Evidence Of Our Prehistoric Ancestors🏺🧪 youtu.be/32HsTrkSB_4?...

Fossil records reveal Earth’s mass extinctions are followed by a rise of ocean cephalopods. They’re rising again. The Cephalopods Are Coming🧪 nautil.us/the-cephalop...

16 herramientas a 1450 m de altura en los Alpes italianos fabricadas y transportadas por neandertales Neanderthal incursions at a high-altitude “bear cave”: Reassessing Caverna Generosa in the southern Alps onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

CR-17. Sima de los Huesos (Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain). Middle Pleistocene hominins #FossilFriday 
Photo: © Javier Trueba-Madrid Scientific Films Learn more in our podcast #HistoriasDeLaPrehistoria: deathrevol.com/en/po... @erc.europa.eu CENIEH#FossilFriday#HistoriasDeLaPrehistoria:#FECYT

Cave Lions and Modern Lions Interbred After More Than a Million Years Apart as Ice Age Climate Shifted Their Ranges www.discovermagazine.com/cave-lions-a...

Evidence from Buhais Rockshelter for human settlement in Arabia between 60,000 and 16,000 years ago

Orangutans breastfeed their young for six and a half years, the longest among mammals @gutsickgibbon.bsky.social #evolution #evolutionsoup #fossil #science 👇🏼👇🏾 www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Direct evidence for poison use on microlithic arrowheads in Southern Africa at 60,000 years ago

La transición evolutiva entre los primeros Homo y H. ergaster/erectus parece estar correlacionada con un cambio de talla ocasional hacia habitual. What the eastern African stone tool evidence tells us about Plio-Pleistocene hominin extinctions

When Homo floresiensis was found in 2003, very few hominin skeletons were complete enough to measure arm-to-leg proportions. Lucy and Turkana Boy were really the only solid ones. Everything else was broken and fragmentary, making the hobbit's strange proportions hard to understand. 🧪🏺

The oldest DNA retrieved from an animal fossil is ~1.6 million years old - a mammoth from icy Siberia where cold temperatures preserve DNA well. But have you ever wondered how long #ancientDNA is preserved in animal remains from sunny & warm Africa? Well, wonder now more! doi.org/10.1016/j.qu...

12,000-Year-Old Discovery at Karahan Tepe, “the World’s First Village,” Reveals an Ancient Key to Human Survival🏺🧪 thedebrief.org/12000-year-o... Near Turkey’s most famous archaeological site Göbekli Tepe, is an equally remarkable pre-pottery Neolithic wonder: the Karahan Tepe site in Şanlıurfa.

How did Neanderthals deal with illness and injuries? @scifri.bsky.social www.sciencefriday.com/segments/nea...

Humans conquered the planet 300 times faster than genetic evolution can explain www.scientificamerican.com/article/huma...

Chimpanzee culture beyond the conspicuous: Evidence for broad-scale observational social learning in wild individuals🧪 www.cell.com/iscience/ful... Suggests wild chimpanzees use peering to learn a wide variety of skills, thereby highlighting unrecognized cultural potential in everyday behaviors.

The evolution of non–seasonal breeding in primates🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Results shed light on the diverse selective pressures shaping primate reproductive seasonality, including climate, life–history pace, and infanticide risk, and help to explain why humans reproduce year-round.

🎵 Don't it make my brown eyes Don't it make my brown eyes Don't it make my brown eyes... umm... green 🎶 Why Just 2 % Of Humans Have Green Eyes, The Rarest Eye Color In The World Got green eyes? Then you are part of a tiny minority in the global human population.🧪 www.iflscience.com/why-just-2-p...

Technological innovations and regional diversity in Western Europe at ca. the MIS 11 threshold: a cladistic approach

🏺 From 2024 but I missed it: "A 7,000-year-old multi-component arrow poison from Kruger Cave, South Africa" Organic residues inside a bovid bone, in which were embedded bone points = poison arrow 'quiver' Poison made from multiple plants. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Wild western chimpanzees throw rocks at specific trees. While throwing, they pant hoot — a loud, long-distance communicative signal. Why do male chimpanzees throw rocks at the same trees for more than a decade? We travelled to remote Guinea‑Bissau to find out🧪 theconversation.com/why-do-male-...

A record that spans at least 78 K years Cave morphology and human-mediated sediment deposition: Late Pleistocene to Holocene evolution of the cave floor at Panga ya Saidi, coastal Kenya🏺🧪 Jennifer Miller, @nicoleboivin.bsky.social , @mdpetraglia.bsky.social et al journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

🔥 Light up my life! When did humans have the technology to make fire? Recently, the answer to that has changed - pushing the date back from 50,000 years ago to 400,000 years ago But how do we know this? This discovery changed human history by 350,000 years🏺🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-Zu...

Conjunto de útiles líticos concebidos para ser enmangados en Xigou, China central, 160~72 ka. Innovaciones tecnológicas en una tradición que persistió unos 90 ka. Technological innovations and hafted technology in central China ~160,000–72,000 years ago

Brilliant 🧵

Yesterday in 1855, Darwin wrote to his best friend, "If I really have as bad an expression as this photograph gives me, how I can have one single friend is surprising." (I will never stop laughing at this). 🧪

I feel your pain... Empathic concern for others plays a central role for human cooperation and is proposed to be key in moral development. When do children begin to care for others? The ontogenetic growth of empathic concern across the first two years of life🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Cueva Leang Bulu Bettue (Sulawesi, Indonesia): secuencia casi continua de ocupación humana 132-208 ka: A near-continuous archaeological record of Pleistocene human occupation at Leang Bulu Bettue, Sulawesi, Indonesia journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Herramientas de madera portátiles de 430 ka, Marathousa 1 (Grecia): palo posiblemente para cavar y pequeña pieza para manipular materiales o descortezar (Milks et al., 2026). En "Los 10 objetos de madera más antiguos" wp.me/p4Bi9E-1fM

Did modern human carpal morphology evolve from knuckle walking traits? doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Sex assessment in a hominin upper second molar (RV’23-350) from the Ruidera (Spain) Middle Pleistocene paleoanthropological site: a proteome-based analysis of the amelogenin

A reminder that the stubborn "march of progress" image is misleading in about one hundred ways, the biggest of which is that it was never meant to be six figures at all. It was a foldout of fifteen, drawn in a 1965 book as the "road to Homo sapiens." Nine were hidden behind the fold. 🧪

🔆 Have a great weekend! How Ancient Humans Occupied Their Time🏺🧪 laughingsquid.com/how-ancient-...

Acelerón evolutivo: la sorprendente reorganización de la cabeza humana

I'm going to be talking on Neanderthal structures and Middle Palaeolithic monuments in York, June 6th, as part of a day celebrating Prof Spikins and the adaptive success of these remarkable Ice Age peoples. 🏺🦣 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/europa-202...

THE WONDER OF LIFE ON EARTH. Written by me. But hey, just look at the lavish illustrations by Raxenne Maniquiz. From @twohootsbooks.bsky.social - out now www.panmacmillan.com/authors/henr...

Los neandertales en cueva Los Aviones explotaban moluscos en los meses más fríos, estrategias hasta ahora observadas más en las poblaciones humanas modernas en el S. Europa: Seasonal shellfish exploitation by Neanderthals 115,000 years ago @asierge et al

Neandertales tardíos (42-39 ka) en Cova Eirós (Galicia, España): ocupaciones recurrentes y de corta duración, alta movilidad logística, que concuerda con otras ocupaciones neandertales del final del Paleolítico medio en la región cantábrica. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Calling all paleoanthropologists! I'm back freelancing and looking for stories to pitch. New paper dropping? Cool find you want the world to know about? Reach out! 🧪🏺✍️

𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘰 𝘳𝘶𝘥𝘰𝘭𝘧𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴. About 2 million years ago. Early Pleistocene. Lake Turkana (Kenya) #FossilFriday Photo:© Javier Trueba-Madrid Scientific Films Learn more about this fossil: https://deathrevol.com/en/podcast/ #HistoriasDeLaPrehistoria @erc.europa.eu @cenieh.bsky.social #FECYT

Cueva de las Manos The prehistoric ‘graffiti’ cave where teenagers spray-painted their hands 9,000 years ago – and no one knows why...🏺🧪 www.discoverwildlife.com/prehistoric-... Learn how an Italian priest uncovered the world’s largest and most dramatic display of handprints and rock art.

An impression made in clay around 175,000 years ago could be a kneeprint left by one of the builders of a strange stalagmite circle found deep inside Bruniquel cave in south-west France Neanderthal 'kneeprint' found next to mysterious stalagmite circle🏺🧪 www.newscientist.com/article/2525...

Aterian shell beads from the coastal site of El Mnasra Cave (Rabat-Témara, Morocco): Specificities of the north African MSA personal ornaments🏺🧪 Emilie Campmas, @eslembenarous.bsky.social et al journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... Shell bead uses over a “short” chronological phase, btw 115 and 94 ka

Ay caramba! The concavity in Chagyrskaya 64 is indicative of the earliest documented instance of caries treatment involving the drilling/rotating with a lithic perforator, ca. 59 ka. Earliest evidence for invasive mitigation of dental caries by Neanderthals🏺🧪 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Darwin began writing a "sketch" of his big idea #OnThisDay in 1856. It would later form the base of his book, On the Origin of Species.

400,000-Year-Old Proteins Reveal a Surprise Twist in The Human Family Tree 🦷💀🇨🇳 www.sciencealert.com/400000-year-...

So my read on this new proteomic work is that we don't know what Homo erectus is. I'll share more, but an early and good article is this one www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Ghost of long-extinct ancestor lives on in people today | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...