How many languages have existed over the Holocene—and what does that reveal about the design space of languages and cultures? Now out in @science.org www.science.org/eprint/QDZNY....

The rise and fall of language diversity through the Holocene

Characterizing the factors that have shaped linguistic diversity is fundamental for understanding human history, culture, and cognition. In this study, we combined statistical and social computational...

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Come join us to learn how to contribute to, and use, metAaRCive, a community-curated database of published ancient animal genomes! We'll also cover best-practises for metadata reporting in #aDNA studies and how to archive sequence data on the ENA! Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1E4k...

AaRC@aarc-community.bsky.social · 4d ago

@anders-bergstrom.bsky.social and @ddj-sa.bsky.social are hosting a workshop on September 17th to walk you through metAaRCive—from what it is to how to contribute. Open for sign-ups: docs.google.com/forms/d/1E4k...

El fósil craneal del género "Homo" de más de 200.000 años descubierto en el yacimiento paleontológico de Ruidera confirma que, durante el Pleistoceno Medio, convivieron en la Península diferentes especies www.mncn.csic.es/es/Comunicac... @ucm.es, @iphes-cerca.bsky.social, @cenieh.bsky.social

Descubren en el yacimiento de Ruidera un fósil craneal del género Homo de más de 200.000 años | Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales

Una investigación del proyecto Primeros Pobladores del Alto Guadiana

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Extremely interesting project, and I can’t think of a better place to work, a better team or a better supervisor!

Evolutionary Ecology Group, Cambridge@eegcam.bsky.social · 5d ago

3 postdoc open positions in our lab on a project developing new AI methods to integrate genetics and ecological data to predict the impact of global change on species - see below

I’m actually really enjoying this! Not normally a biography reader but I’m liking this journey into a time, several places, and a way of thinking (with a lot of nuance and a great narrative thread) 🧬

Matthew Cobb@matthewcobb.bsky.social · last wk.

22 years ago today, Francis Crick died. You can read about his life, his brilliance and his failures in my biography, available in hardback in the UK and USA (and as an audiobook and ebook) and soon in a chonky UK paperback.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... interesting Middle Pleistocene hominin remains from Ciudad Real - only a fragment but it hints at (even greater) morphological diversity!

Good news! Our paper (with @aabiddanda.github.io @sarahaj34.bsky.social @codushlaine.bsky.social and Priya Moorjani) is now officially online! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Recovering signatures of archaic hominin introgression using ancestral recombination graphs

Admixture between modern humans and extinct hominins has shaped the genomes of present-day individuals, but reconstructing this history has been constrained by the scarcity of archaic samples and unad...

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Yulin Zhang@yulinzhang.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Have you ever wondered how many archaic populations contributed DNA to modern humans? We know about Neanderthals and Denisovans, but the fossil and genetic evidence suggests a much more complex history! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Just got our @genomeresearch.bsky.social article by Margarita Geleta. 📬 I love hard copies...still here's a link genome.cshlp.org/content/36/2... Rita's article was a tour de force of genomic uses for the autoencoder architecture: compression, dim reduction, ancestry, synthetic genomes.

A paper that inspired and inspires my thinking a lot. Really happy to see it finally out.

Paco Majic@hhydrochaerus.bsky.social · 4w ago

What drives the variation in mutation rates between seals and walruses, gulls and pelicans? Maybe selection counteracting the burden of deleterious mutations- or maybe it is a spandrel, a neutral byproduct of the diversification of development and life-history academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

Open position of Associate Professor in Behavioral ecology and cultural evolution at the @dee-unil.bsky.social! You can toggle the ad to English on top right: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

www.nature.com/articles/d41... "We can almost look through the eyes of the Aurignacian people and see how they viewed the environment around them,” says Amy Clark, a palaeolithic archaeologist at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts."

40,000-year-old bird carvings provide clues to how ice age humans flourished

Newly discovered figurines point to skills that might have helped shape early humans’ expansion across Europe.

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It's that time of year again.. No-one has demonstrated the evolutionary significance of epigenetic inheritance, at least not in animals, primarily because that is very different from just showing a transgenerational effect can occur. theconversation.com/updating-dar...

Updating Darwin: biologists are returning to an older theory to explain anomalies in evolution

To make sense of some characteristics that species exhibit from birth, you have to turn to an old discredited theory known as Lamarckism.

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Looking forward to returning to Latnija,Malta, in August - and our new modelling paper suggests forager occupations from 8.5-7.5ka were only possible through sustained, long-distance seafaring in the Mesolithic Mediterranean! (Image: (C) Huw Groucutt) academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Fascinating discovery of ~1.43 million year old footprints 👣👣👣 Homo and Paranthropus wandering around the lakeshore.... www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Insights into hominin body size, locomotion, and behavior from Early Pleistocene trackways in northern Kenya | PNAS

The Early Pleistocene fossils of the Koobi Fora Formation, northern Kenya, record two well-documented hominin genera, Homo and Paranthropus, preser...

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Our latest paper on how transcription factor binding sites for global regulators can evolve in bacteria is now published in eLife! Mutation by mutation, we are uncovering the regulatory landscapes of bacteria. elifesciences.org/digests/1037...

Step by mutational step

New bacterial regulatory interactions can evolve more readily than previously appreciated, providing new insights into the evolution of gene regulation.

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@isbe2026.bsky.social, our new preprint is out! If you're interested in seasonal biases in ecology, check it out! Or, come and talk to us! @damienfarine.bsky.social will present this tomorrow morning at 11.30 (room Rome)! doi.org/10.32942/X2K...

So proud of @rachel-hurwitz.bsky.social for publishing her 1st PhD chapter 💪 check it out! It’s a really cool review on how can extant primates can help us to identify tool use in the past 🦴🙂

Rachel Hurwitz@rachel-hurwitz.bsky.social · 2w ago

New article out in Evolutionary Anthropology! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

#ICTSNews Around 400 researchers from around the world to gather in Burgos for @eshesociety.bsky.social 2026 +info: cenieh.es/actualidad/n... #ESHEBurgos

Very, very happy that our paper is finally out! We look at how tight a fit primates experience at birth, and found really cool results. It has been a long journey from collecting the first data seven years ago! A brief thread (1/8) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Comparative primate analysis shows that humans are not unique in having a tight cephalopelvic fit at birth - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Analysing cephalopelvic proportions among 29 extant primate species, the authors show that a tight cephalopelvic fit is not unique to humans, with comparable or tighter fits occurring in several non-h...

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Copenhagen job alert 🚨 GLOBE (@ucph.bsky.social) is hiring a 21-mo Postdoc in #Bioinformatics & #ComputationalProteomics Work with @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social, @fridowelker.bsky.social, @brandtgroup.bsky.social & more mapping collagen/keratin diversity across 1000s of genomes. 📅 Deadline Aug 31

Postdoc of Bioinformatics and Computational Proteomics

jobportal.ku.dk

We are accepting expressions of interest or short abstracts (200 words) for both issue 1 and issue 2 until 31 August 💙 For further information or any questions, please feel free to contact me directly at haneul.jang@ird.fr or the editorial team at hgreditor+se@gmail.com

Haneul Jang@haneuljang.bsky.social · 2mo ago

💙 Call for contributions! 💙 To mark 60 years since the Man the Hunter conference (1966), Hunter Gatherer Research is curating a two-part special issue on “Lessons and Reflections from Hunter-Gatherer Research” www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/hgr A thread on the two issues & formats👇

Excellent article about our recent paper by @killgrove.bsky.social in @livescience.com, covering our exciting finding that DNA can be recovered from Late Pleistocene remains in Africa! #aDNA #Africa #genetics #palaeontology

Live Science@livescience.com · 3w ago

Scientists show that DNA can last for up to 50,000 years in Africa ‪—‬ much longer than previously thought www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

A 5-year PDRA position in "Statistical Modelling in Archaeology" is available @cam-archaeology.bsky.social as part of the FORAGER project. Deadline: 21/8/2026 tinyurl.com/muhcjkfy www.forager-erc.eu

Slowly wrapping up two wonderful weeks of fieldwork in Koobi Fora. It’s been fantastic to spend some time with the Daasanach, with colleagues and to get to know some of the incredible archaeological sites in the area 🤩 (Photo credits to Jon Reeves)

🏺🦣 1/2 Sedimentary ancient mtDNA successfully obtained from first use of #sedaDNA from #Castlepook Cave sediment in Ireland. First ancient pre-LGM sequences for woolly #mammoth (Clade III & B2) & cave #hyena (haplotype A1) from Ireland. Also Clade 1b brown #bear & Clade 2 which replaced 1b c.32ka.

Sedimentary ancient DNA reveals Late Pleistocene faunal connectivity between Ireland and Eurasia https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.10.737191v1

🐘 check out our newest paper from Liang Bua! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Did H. floresiensis hunt Stegodon? 🔪 Did they also had control use of fire? 🔥 We tested these early claims of complex behavior using taphonomy, experimental archaeology, and zooarchaeology of the Stegodon assemblage.

great read and a great test of assumptions regarding the drivers of encephalisation in our genus - congrats!

Katerina Harvati@katharv.bsky.social · last mo.

Happy to finally see this paper published! Thank you to the @dfg.de and all the institutions who supported me and this research! 🎉 @erc.europa.eu @humanorigins.bsky.social Open access, download freely at the link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Wonderful blog here from Haneul which aptly expresses why so many hunter-gatherer experts, at different career stages and with very different research programmes and theoretical perspectives/commitments, felt compelled to collaborate on the Meaning of MTH paper.

Haneul Jang@haneuljang.bsky.social · last mo.

Happy to have contributed to the latest HBES newsletter on our recent paper, The Meanings and Dividends of Man the Hunter, led by @vivek123.bsky.social I reflect on MTH through the lens of my research on Bayaka women's foraging & cooperation in the Congolese rainforest www.hbes.com/revisiting-m...

Great paper!

HUMAN ORIGINS - Cluster of Excellence@humanorigins.bsky.social · last mo.

Likely no hunters of Elephants nor masters of fire - new paper on taphonomic analysis challenges former assumptions on Homo floresensis. Congratulations to Grace Veatch, who recently started her position as an Independent Junior Research Group Lead at Human Origins! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...