Paper alert👏🤩 Our work on the distal humerus of Pliobates was just published in JME. Thanks and congrats also to Ambra Figueroa-Torrejón, @tpuschel.bsky.social, @a-urciuoli.bsky.social, S Almécija, G Raventós-Izard and DM Alba. Featuring lovely artwork by @gamarraptor.bsky.social! rdcu.be/fuc8u

Job alert! The GenoMorph project is still recruiting a postdoc researcher in genetic data. The aim is to better understand relationships between genotype & phenotype in human teeth, with implications for hominin evolution. Please apply here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/417844

Postdoctoral Researcher in Genetic Data Analysis (M/F)

The University of Bordeaux is a large, dynamic, and responsible university, attentive to the well-being of its staff.

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How did primate hand function evolve? 🐒 Hamate bone morphology suggests natural selection shaped key hand traits linked to grip & locomotion. Suspensory behaviors evolved independently in gibbons & great apes Hunter et al.: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

23 month research associate job now available with our team to work on Middle Jurassic mammals from Scotland. Requires strong experience with segmentation of CT data but does not require a PhD. Deadline for applications is 26th July. edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Research Associate (Leverhulme) - School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences - 105138 - Grade 6

This is a Research Associate position to assist in palaeobiological research conducted as part of the project “New Insights Into Early Mammal Evolution From Exceptional Scottish Fossils” funded by the...

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JOB ALERT! We are recruiting at @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social - a lecturer (Grade 8) or associate professor (Grade 9) in primate or human evolutionary anatomy (research and teaching). Contact Susan Evans or myself for further details. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRZ412/l...

Lecturer / Associate Professor in Primate or Human Evolutionary Anatomy at UCL

Searching for an academic job? Explore this Lecturer / Associate Professor in Primate or Human Evolutionary Anatomy opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

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#SomCERCA | 🧭 CERCARUMB impulsa nous lideratges a la recerca. 💡 Un itinerari de tallers per revisar masculinitats, identificar desigualtats i fomentar la corresponsabilitat. ♂️Adreçat a homes en posicions de responsabilitat als centres CERCA. 🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/vibacqesrz

#SomCERCA | 🚨 últims dies per inscriure't a CERCAREMA, el programa de mentories feministes 👭 Sororitat, lideratge i suport mutu per prevenir l’assetjament i els masclismes quotidians en la recerca. 📅 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗹 𝟱 𝗱𝗲 𝗷𝘂𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗹 🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/wrfldwdujg

🚨 PhD opportunity 🚨 Join @palevoprim.bsky.social as part of the #ReVol project (@cnrs.fr & Wits Joint PhD Programme)! Spend 3 years investigating the southern African fossil cercopithecoids to reconstruct past ecology and behavior through skeletal morphology and dental microwear.

#SomCERCA | 🔴 Torna CERCAREMA, el programa de mentories feministes 👭 Sororitat, lideratge i suport mutu per prevenir l’assetjament i els masclismes quotidians en la recerca. 📅 Inscripcions fins al 5 de juliol 🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/cdyefnbxrj

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New findings challenge idea that human bodies simply got bigger and bigger over time in a steady line

The biggest jump in body size among our ancestors happened around 2–2.5 million years ago, with the appearance of Homo rudolfensis or Homo erectus/ergaster, rather than gradually across the whole huma...

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📣 New Vacancy  College Lecturer in Anthropology @ Full time, fixed term contract (1 year). Closing date 12pm, 26 June. Full details ⬇️

We’re hiring a Research Assistant🚨 Interested in human evolution and African prehistory? We’re looking for someone with excellent organisational skills who will be based in Cambridge, with fieldwork opportunities in Kenya🇰🇪 Deadline: 01.07.2026 🔗 Apply online:
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Finally out. More of our work on tamarins 🤩. Whole‐Epiphysis Trabecular Bone in Tamarin Limbs Suggests Effects of Leaping Distance Alongside Non‐Biomechanical Factors - Nguyen et al. - 2026 - American Journal of Biological Anthropology - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Whole‐Epiphysis Trabecular Bone in Tamarin Limbs Suggests Effects of Leaping Distance Alongside Non‐Biomechanical Factors

Objectives Beyond non-biomechanical factors, the trabecular architecture of long bone epiphyses variably underlies functional adaptations to locomotor behavior. A recent study, characterizing tamari.....

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Great postdoc opportunity for folk into morphology, biomechanics and human/primate evolution: pliodis.github.io/opportunitie...

PDRA Opportunity: Modelling the functional adaptations of the primate masticatory apparatus at VUB

2-year renewable Post-doctoral Fellowship at Archaeology, Environmental Changes & Geo-Chemistry Research Group, the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium to study the functional adaptations of the prima...

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Inici de campanya a Creu de Conill 20 en bona companyia @a-urciuoli.bsky.social, @gamarraptor.bsky.social i Josep Manel Méndez! Avui, a pic i pala⛏️ Start of the Creu de Conill 20 campaign, with some cleaning and shoveling for today! #fieldwork de l'ICP

#SomCERCA | 🔴 Acte de cloenda de CERCAREMA, el programa de mentoria feminista que ha teixit una comunitat de suport, aprenentatge i transformació entre dones dels centres CERCA. 📆 Divendres, 8 de maig ⏰ De 10 a 12 h. 📍 Sala d'actes del VHIR 🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/qhxdblwchg

2 PhD Opportunities! 🤩 We are recruiting two highly motivated PhD students to join an ambitious project advancing Robotic Paleontology—a rapidly emerging field that fuses paleontology, biomechanics, simulation, and robotics. nyakaturalab.com/news/ Please share!!

Nyakatura-Lab for Comparative Zoology | News

See what’s been happening in the Nyakatura Lab. News: discover our latest publications, recent events, and research highlights.

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We're looking for an Associate Lecturer in Evolutionary Anthropology (mainly teaching Evo Med and Stats at UCL Anthro) as maternity cover! Please share - closing date 30th April www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Doctoral student in Historical Osteology within the ERC-Synergy grant project "FORAGER" lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Doctoral student in Historical Osteology within the ERC-Synergy grant project "FORAGER"

About the education After the end of the last Ice Age, warmer, more stable Holocene climates led to the development of entirely new food systems, which in turn triggered population booms across mid-la

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🦷🔬 Looking for PhD candidates with an engineering or a biological background. Fully funded PhD at @universitatURV on biomechanics & mechanical properties of vertebrate teeth ➡️Call opens in May here: www.urv.cat/en/research/... ➡️DM or email me for info.

🚨 TRAVEL GRANTS 🚨 The symposium “Advances on the histology of the mineralised tissues of vertebrates”, proudly sponsored by Anatomical Record, is offering 👇 💸 5 Travel Grants 💰 US$1000 each 🎓 For postgraduate students (including postdocs) ⚠️Only for symposium delegates

New paper out on the brain endocast of a distant relative of pangolins: Metacheiromys! We found a possible neurological convergence among myrmecophagous mammals 🧠🐜 Check it out, it's open access! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Virtual brain endocasts of the palaeanodont Metacheiromys marshi and the neurosensory evolution of early Pholidotamorpha

We describe the endocranial anatomy of Metacheiromys marshi. Decrease in olfaction and eye movement control occurred through time in Pholidotamorpha and is likely linked to fossorial adaptations. The...

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Finally our latest paper in the Journal of Mammalian Evolution is out!!! Have a look at what an additional Oreopithecus partial cranium can tell us about the phylogenetic position of this enigmatic Late Miocene Italian ape. rdcu.be/fa21y #paleoanthropology #apes #insularity

🚨 Two postdoc positions open in the #LHOSA team at @palevoprim.bsky.social! Passionate about Australopithecus and hominin paleobiology? Skilled in virtual study of long bones or #GIS applied to hominin-bearing sites? Join us 👇

There's also a Perspective on it, by Dr David M. Alba and I, check it out here👇👇 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Masripithecus was very interesting to learn and think about!

The dawn of modern apes

An Egyptian fossil places the origin of modern apes in northeastern Afro-Arabia

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Julia Arias-Martorell@julsam.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Check out this new Early Miocene ape, Masripithecus, from Egypt! 👀 Paper by Al-Ashqar et al.👇https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adz4102

Check out this new Early Miocene ape, Masripithecus, from Egypt! 👀 Paper by Al-Ashqar et al.👇https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adz4102

An Early Miocene ape from the biogeographic crossroads of African and Eurasian Hominoidea

The Early Miocene fossil record documenting hominoid evolution has long been restricted primarily to sites in East Africa, whereas contemporaneous North African sites have only yielded remains of cerc...

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄@mu-peter.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🦧Very sad news that Dr Birutė Galdikas, world-renowned anthropologist and orangutan researcher, has died at the age of 80 One of the Leakey Trimates she was the first scientist in the world to begin in-depth studies of orangutans The Loss of Professor Birutė Galdikas 👩‍🔬🏺🧪 www.vdu.lt/en/vmu-commu...

Four-year fully funded PhD! The project is based on Campus Gotland (Visby), and would be suitable for students in archaeology, bioarchaeology, forensic archaeology or palaeoanthropology who have the necessary technical background. Application window closes on 27th April. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Job alert! Postdoc position in genetic data analysis to better understand the link between genotype and phenotype of teeth, with implications for the evolution of dental morphology in hominins. Please apply here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/417844

Postdoctoral Researcher in Genetic Data Analysis (M/F)

This postdoctoral project is part of the ANR GenoMorph project (https://anr.fr/Projet-ANR-20-CE12-0018) led by Dr. Clément Zanolli.

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We all know lemurs like to move it move it, but how did they evolve to do this? Using fossil limbs of Malagasy sloth-lemurs & koala-lemurs, this paper uncovers the potential use of internal bone structure for reconstructing locomotor evolution! 🌍🧪👇

The locomotor behaviour of subfossil Malagasy sloth-lemurs (Strepsirrhini: Indriidae) and koala-lemurs (Strepsirrhini: Megaladapidae): new insights from limb trabecular bone

Abstract. The locomotion of Malagasy Quaternary subfossil lemurs, including palaeopropithecines (‘sloth-lemurs’) and megaladapids (‘koala-lemurs’), has bee

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