PaleoAnthropology
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Human Origins, Hominin Fossils, Biological Anthropology #Evolution #Fossils #Science🏺 https://twitter.com/Qafzeh
Exclusive: See unprecedented images of Sunda clouded leopards, the ‘ghosts of the forest’🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... New, never-before-seen images provide a glimpse into the secretive lives of a clouded leopard species found in the dense rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra
40,000-year-old bird carvings provide clues to how ice age humans flourished @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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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Homo floresiensis: hunter or scavenger? @robertosaezm.bsky.social nutcrackerman.com/2026/07/29/h...
Homo floresiensis: ¿cazador o carroñero?
Llevábamos algún tiempo sin volver al «mundo perdido» de Flores (Indonesia), una isla siempre separada del continente por un ancho brazo oceánico de decenas de kilómetros. A pesar de ello, dependie…
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Two new Denisovan fossils have emerged from the seafloor of the Penghu Strait, near Taiwan. I look at what these tell us about the survival of Denisovans into the time frame of the “classic” Neanderthals. www.johnhawks.net/p/legs-of-th...
Legs of the last Denisovans
Two bones from the floor of the Penghu Strait reveal some of the latest evidence of Denisovan survival.
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"Why is anthropology so threatening to reactionaries?" excellent from @jontheanthroman.bsky.social rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
<i>Why is anthropology so threatening to reactionaries?</i>
Jonathan Marks reads the committee's report on the humanities as an uncredited rehash of the 1990s science wars, a familiar quarrel with the academic left dressed as a defence of knowledge. Rather th....
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"enhanced visual processing, not expansion of the frontal lobe, drove the major increases in neocortical size [in primates]." (from Editor's Summary)
Fossil evidence favors a role for vision in the modular evolution of the primate neocortex
Neocortical expansion is a key innovation of crown primates, although fossil evidence for how the neocortex has evolved remains elusive. We studied neocortical evolution using virtual brain endocasts ...
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How Neanderthal ancestry affects growth and muscle @johnhawks.net open.substack.com/pub/johnhawk...
How Neanderthal ancestry affects growth and muscle
Study of a Neanderthal-derived haplotype of GHR show effects on height and lean body mass
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Interesting twist in a new paper: Introgression deserts aren't actually deserted. “Our findings suggest that ghost ancestry is often present in previously defined archaic deserts, providing additional context to putative Homo sapiens–specific selection.” 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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Neanderthal gene makes some modern humans taller and more muscular www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Neanderthal gene makes some modern humans taller and more muscular
The ancient genetic variant is most common in people of South and East Asian ancestry.
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‘This time, it’s the other way around’: how Indonesia is reclaiming the science of human history 💀🇮🇩 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘This time, it’s the other way around’: how Indonesia is reclaiming the science of human history
After a massive restructuring of its research ecosystem, Indonesia is taking the lead on its own palaeontological research.
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Si el fds pasado no leíste el resumen, aquí tienes otra oportunidad: Paleoantropología: novedades 2º trimestre 2026 nutcrackerman.com/2026/06/30/p...
Paleoantropología: novedades 2º trimestre 2026
Como cada trimestre, aquí llega el resumen de las principales novedades publicadas en el ámbito de la paleoantropología, ordenadas cronológicamente según la antigüedad de los hallazgos estudiados. …
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Aprovechamiento estable y continuado del sílex en el sur de Pirineos entre 13,5 y 39 ka, con fuentes a +100 km. Variations in human ecodynamics in the southern Pyrenees: chert procurement and use at Cova Gran de Santa Linya during the Upper Paleolithic www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Qafzeh 25 (92-145 ka): probable lesión por objeto cortante, violencia interpersonal. Sobrevivió tras la herida, con posible recepción de cuidados. A taphonomic reassessment of Qafzeh 25 and its implications for violence, health and funerary practices www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A taphonomic reassessment of Qafzeh 25 and its implications for violence, health and funerary practices - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - A taphonomic reassessment of Qafzeh 25 and its implications for violence, health and funerary practices
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Ancestral Origins and Genetic History of Tibetan Highlanders🏺🧪 pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... Evidence of the co-existence of Paleolithic and Neolithic ancestries in the Tibetan gene pool, indicating a genetic continuity between pre-historical highland-foragers and present-day Tibetans.
Las diferencias cognitivas entre neandertales y humanos modernos encajarían en el rango encontrado en los humanos modernos, que generalmente no se considera significativo a nivel evolutivo. Neanderthal brain and cognition reconsidered
Neanderthal brain and cognition reconsidered | PNAS
Neanderthal endocrania are different in shape, though slightly larger in size than modern humans on average. These shape differences have long been...
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Study suggests humans and Neanderthals coexisted in same caves www.purdueexponent.org/news/nationa...
Study suggests humans and Neanderthals coexisted in same caves
Early modern humans and Neanderthals may have lived together in the same caves, according to new research.
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Roughly 100,000 Years Ago, This Man Got Stabbed in the Face—and Survived. He's Likely One of the First Known Victims of an Attack With a Sharp Weapon
Researchers who investigated the remains of a young adult male found in the Qafzeh cave say the injury healed over time, which means the victim's community may have tended to him
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Taphonomic analysis at Liang Bua reveals the behavioral and technological capabilities of Homo floresiensis🏺🧪 @egveatch.bsky.social @brianapobiner.bsky.social , et al www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Suggests not as behaviorally advanced and provides critical insights into the behavioral repertoire
(actualizado) Romito 2: un caso de enanismo en el Paleolítico superior estudiado con la Bioarqueología del Cuidado (updated) Romito 2: a case of dwarfism in the Upper Paleolithic studied with the Bioarchaeology of Care
Romito 2: un caso de enanismo en el Paleolítico superior estudiado con la Bioarqueología del Cuidado
Actualizado enero 2026 [English version below] Romito 2 es el esqueleto de un individuo femenino que vivió hace unos 11.500 años en la región de Calabria, al sur de Italia. Su edad al morir era de …
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Lucy, a remarkably complete Australopithecus afarensis, perhaps more than any other ancient relative, has challenged us to think deeply about what it means to be human. Three million years after Lucy walked upright in Africa, the inside story of another landmark journey🏺🧪 phys.org/news/2026-06...
Un elefante procesado en EAK (Olduvai) hace 1,78 Ma: implicaciones para el origen de la cooperación
Un elefante procesado en EAK (Olduvai) hace 1,78 Ma: implicaciones para el origen de la cooperación
Viajemos a uno de mis periodos favoritos en la evolución humana: aquel en que algunos representantes de Homo tempranos comienzan a desarrollar comportamientos de cooperación. Se trata de grupos de …
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El hallazgo más antiguo conocido de sílex tratado térmicamente: Nauwalabila I (Australia) 40-45 ka. Earliest Lithic Heat Treatment in Australia is the World’s Oldest Known Treatment of Chert
Earliest Lithic Heat Treatment in Australia is the World’s Oldest Known Treatment of Chert - Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology
We identify the oldest known example of systematic heat treatment of chert in the world. The specimens come from the base of one of Australia’s oldest archaeological sequences, Nauwalabila I, in…
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The brain lag effect is complicated Evolutionary lags in the primate brain size/body size relationship revisited🏺🧪 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... Contrary to original lag hypothesis, finds brain/body ratio does not converge back on allometric regression line, but continues to evolve beyond it.
Evolutionary drivers of encephalization and facial reduction in the genus Homo🏺🧪 Mark Hubbe & Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... Highlighting the importance of environmental constraints and possibly cultural behaviors as core drivers of human evolution.
#OnThisDay in 1858, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's theory of evolution through natural selection was read aloud at a meeting of the Linnean Society. It was the first time the idea was ever presented to an audience.
