Our late Neandertal paper is officially out! 💀❤️🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41... It was years in the making, a tremendous feat spearheaded by our PhD student Alba Bossoms Mesa and co-led by @janetk.bsky.social and @benmpeter.bsky.social

A new paper on late Neandertal genetic diversity - A must-read! 👏🍾 Congratulations to our amazing paleogeneticist colleagues! Great to see so much data from Belgian sites, made possible in part through our bone-sorting endeavours with @hrougier.bsky.social 🦴🤓🤩 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Did our ancestors simply stand up to become bipeds? Not quite. In this new @theconversation.com, Jérémy Duveau and I explore what recent paleoanthropological discoveries reveal about the evolution of bipedalism 👣🦴 theconversation.com/non-nos-ance... @irnbipedalism.bsky.social @pacea.bsky.social

🚨 Job alert! ⏬

Delighted to share my new communication at the @sapanthropologie.bsky.social meeting, in Geneva. What about using so-called "biomechanical" traits for phylogenetic questions in paleoanthropology? @univbordeaux.bsky.social @pacea.bsky.social 🦴☠️🧬🦍 Join us, it's here: www.sapweb.fr/index.php/fr...

For the first day of the #JournéesdelaSAP, @fdruelle.bsky.social presented his work on reconstructing the positional reportoire of fossil hominins.

Some of our members are this week in Geveva for the annual meetings of the @sapanthropologie.bsky.social #JournéesdelaSAP

#Neanderthal bones from the Goyet caves 🇧🇪 show traces of cannibalism. It now appears that all the victims were women and children. Moreover, they did not come from the Goyet region but were brought there. #sciencenews 👉 www.naturalsciences.be/en/science/n...

This is a remarkable open access resource for genomic work on living great apes. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🦴 New study reveals how teen growth and puberty shape the femur from inside out. Analyzing medieval femora, researchers found sex-specific “medullary contractions” during adolescence—especially in females & varying by region Muñoz-Guarinos et al.: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The IRN Bipedal Equilibrium team is running an international survey on hominin bipedalism. They aim to better understand how scholars think about bipedalism. Perspectives from all fields are welcome! 👉 Here is the survey link: questions.huma-num.fr/v4/s/dv57r1 (10 min) Please share it widely! 🏺🧪🦣

Une grosse enquête sur la bipédie humaine est en cours, alors si vous êtes anthropologue ou primatologue, n’hésitez pas à y répondre !! On a besoin de tous les avis ! 💡

🚩Notre numéro thématique des #BMSAP sur le thème des " #pratiquesmortuaires et inférences sociales" est maintenant complètement en ligne et en #Openaccess ! Our thematic issue of the #BMSAP on “ #mortuarypractices and social inferences” is now fully online and in #OpenAccess! doi.org/10.4000/14ohi

Did Neandertals choose their prey when practicing cannibalism?🍖 Check out our new study, just published in Scientific Reports - @natureportfolio.nature.com! We provide the strongest evidence to date for a highly selective cannibalism at the end of Neandertal lineage, 41-45.000 years ago. 1/7

#Communiqué 🗞️ L’étude d’ossements néandertaliens de la Troisième caverne de Goyet révèle un cannibalisme sélectif, ciblant les femmes et les enfants, il y a 41 000-45 000 ans. Les victimes venaient probablement d’un groupe extérieur à la communauté. 👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/de...

🚩💀🏆Lors des prochaines journées nous allons décerner le prix de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris, qui vise à récompenser un travail de thèse en anthropologie biologique, rédigé en français ou en anglais et soutenu pendant l’année ! date limite de candidature: 30 novembre 2025

🚩In the #BMSAP by Anastasia Chrysanthi Solomou (Univ Catholique de Louvain @univpaulvalery.bsky.social) Fragmentary data and scattered lands: a #recordingprotocol for a comparative #archaeothanatologicalanalysis based on #archaeological illustrations #Openaccess journals.openedition.org/bmsap/14375

Delighted to share the publication of my new article in the Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris! The article is open access — feel free to take a look! -> doi.org/10.4000/153s3 @sapanthropologie.bsky.social @pacea.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social @univ-amu.fr

Intéressés par la Préhistoire, l'Evolution humaine et ... le théâtre ? Venez participer à l'évènement "Neandertal, l'enquête continue", une restitution grand public du projet scientifique ADNER. Rendez-vous au Musée d'Aquitaine, le 22/10 à 16h30. @univbordeaux.bsky.social @pacea.bsky.social

Well... here we are, I guess! Just submitted my PhD and it feels pretty unreal! So proud of this journey! More exciting data on the Nile Valley is coming, plus some new projects to announce soon. Stay tuned, this adventure is far from over! 👀 @isabellecrevecoeur.bsky.social @pacea.bsky.social

One more great congress for the Société Francophone De Primatologie @lasfdp.bsky.social !! Organized in Poitiers by @palevoprim.bsky.social It was great moment to share ideas & discoveries between primatologists and anthropologists. See you next time at the @efp2026.bsky.social in Montpelier !!

Several members of our network are in Poitiers this week to present their research at the #SFDP2025 meetings 💪.

Big thanks to PALEVOPRIM lab for the invitation to share the stage with amazing colleagues for this symposium at the #SFDP2025. I think this was a great moment! @lasfdp.bsky.social

A close friend for chimps, an inspiration for humans. All primates just lost a friend. Goodbye Jane.

Just found out I didn’t get another grant I applied for. Disappointed, but still motivated to keep pushing forward. If anyone knows of opportunities (grants, contracts, collaborations, preferably in Portugal/Spain), I’d be very grateful for any leads. #Funding #Research

#ESHE2025 Zoe Nowicki ‘Revisiting femoral anteversion in hominoids: A new approach using 3D data’ Is femoral anteversion human-specific & related to bip? 2 methods to measure anteversion angle; excluding fem head critical to show human-ape diffs (fem head adds noise for being unique in humans) !

#ESHE2025 Ashleigh Wiseman ‘Primate locomotor diversity and the evolution of hominin bipedalism’ Building musculoskeletal models to simulate movement. Application to apes, eHoms, humans- phylo analysis of diffs; Au Prometheus as outlier. 5 unique clusters of locomotor profiles . Amazing visuals 😍!

#ESHE2025 Alicia Blasi-Toccacceli ‘Morpho-functional analysis of new hominin-associated shoulder remains …Shungura, Ethiopia’ NEW SHUNGURA: OMO VE 3-10063 assoc shoulder 1.84 Ma – Aus or Homo? GMM of D hum shaft & art, glenoid fossa shape & angle: new fossil is earliest adult HOMO shoulder 😍

Thank you to everyone who came to see our poster and to the members of our network who attended the #ESHE2025 in force.

Delighted to present new preliminary results on Neandertals and Homo sapiens neonates femora at the #ESHE2025 @isabellecrevecoeur.bsky.social @hrougier.bsky.social @pacea.bsky.social @eshesociety.bsky.social

We encourage you to participate in our survey on bipedalism: questions.huma-num.fr/v4/s/dv57r1

Pleased to be in paris for the @eshesociety.bsky.social meetings to present our poster and invite participants to take part in our survey on bipedalism :)

Our research group on bipedalism is now on bluesky

‼️📣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

It is with deep sadness that the SAP announces the passing of Jaroslav Brůžek, Professor at the Faculty of Science of Charles University in Prague and Emeritus Research Director at the CNRS. The scientific community has lost a pillar; the SAP has lost a dear friend.

22 mai 2025 10h30 séminaire international @palevoprim.bsky.social Q. Cosnefroy @pacea.bsky.social La structure interne des os longs : entre adaptation locomotrice et signal phylogénétique palevoprim.labo.univ-poitiers.fr/wp-content/u... @univpoitiers.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social

22 mai 2025 10h30 séminaire international @palevoprim.bsky.social J. Duveau @unituebingen.bsky.social "Des empreintes de pieds aux caractéristiques des hominines..." palevoprim.labo.univ-poitiers.fr/wp-content/u... @univpoitiers.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social

🧪Congratulations to our PhD Fellow @nclsmartin.bsky.social for this great achievement @pnas.org ! 🎉 New light on Late Pleistocene–Early Holocene migration events in Sudan and Southern Egypt @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social

The deadline is coming!!

Maintenant que le projet #ANR #hobis (hominin bipedalismS) est terminé. Il peut être intéressant de rejeter un coup oeil sur le petit doc vidéo que nous avions fait avec le #cnrs sur ce projet : youtu.be/B5Ub-OwGEs4?...

#VoxPrimato #bourse 01/03/2025: date limite de candidature aux bourses "Captive Care", "Conservation", et "Research" de 1250£ (1500euros) de la part d'une société soeur en Grande-Bretagne. Les personnes issues des pays abritant des primates n'ont pas besoin d'être membre! 👇

#VoxPrimato #job poste d'assistant de recherche à temps partiel à Göttingen, en Allemagne (expérience en SIG et R, travail sur données de pièges photographiques et spatiales) pour le Moyen Bafing Chimpanzee Project sur l'écologie comportementale des chimpanzés dans le PNMB de Guinée 👇

#VoxPrimato #postdoc offre de postdoc (max 4ans après la thèse) pour étudier les différences individuelles et la plasticité dans la communication des bonobos sauvages et captifs, à Tübingen en Allemagne, terrain à Kokolopori (RDC) et zoos Leipzig et Francfort 👇

Charles Darwin published his book Descent of Man #OnThisDay in 1871. In it he wrote: "It has often been asserted that man’s origin can never be known, but ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge."

Excited for today's 'Surface' team meeting! Discussion on our work on high-res methods for studying modifications on bone/stone artifacts. Plus, we welcome our new postdoc, P. Mateo Lomba (ERC ExOsTech @lucdoyon.bsky.social ) to the team! @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social

SEE YOU THIS AFTERNOON (16:00 CET) 😀

🚩Nous avons toujours besoin de vous pour répondre à notre grande enquête destinée à appréhender l’évolution de la composition des membres de notre Société et de solliciter votre avis framaforms.org/ENQUETE-SAP-..., le questionnaire prend peu de temps à remplir

One hundred years ago today, the incredible Taung Child was announced to the world. Surprisingly, the news of a new human ancestor didn't come from a journal but instead from a local newspaper. How Nature got scooped: 🧪 🏺 https://fossilhistory.wordpress.com/2016/02/03/taung-child/

Delighted to have been awarded the Société d'Anthropologie de Paris prize for my PhD in Biological Anthropology, which I defended in 2024 at Aix-Marseille University. @univ-amu.fr @sapanthropologie.bsky.social