Thrilled to announce I've just started as Assistant Professor at @emoryuniversity.bsky.social! Life feels full of excitement, ideas, and energy. Stay tuned for total irreverence for disciplinary boundaries in human evolutionary biology✨ To my long-term collaborators who got me here: you guys rock.

Justus Erus Edung was only 25 years old when he discovered Kenyanthropus platyops in a team led by Prof. Meave Leakey in 1999. This 3.5 million year old “flat-faced” skull quickly grabbed international headlines and changed the course of human evolution. #fossils #turkana #humanevolution

I'd apply in a heartbeat if I could. Most creative (!) project proposal I've ever read, brilliant fieldwork opportunities, and the BEST supervising team you could wish for! Apply, apply, apply!

a gorilla is sitting on the ground with the words wahoo !

ALT: a gorilla is sitting on the ground with the words wahoo !

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Kathelijne Koops@kathelijnekoops.bsky.social · last yr.

Join us!!! 2 (!) PhD positions on wild chimpanzees and bonobos in the Ape Behaviour & Ecology Group and Wildminds Lab!!! 🤩🤩🤩

Despite the recovery of 100s of fossils of Paranthropus robustus (a human cousin) in the last ~75 years, there's a lot we don't know for sure about its anatomy below the neck. This beautiful specimen contributes significantly to our knowledge of P. robustus hindlimb morphology. #paleoanthropology 🧪🏺

First articulating os coxae, femur, and tibia of a small adult Paranthropus robustus from Member 1 (Hanging Remnant) of the Swartkrans Formation, South Africa

Since paleontological work began there in 1948, Swartkrans (South Africa) has yielded hundreds of Early Pleistocene hominin fossils, currently attribu…

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Knapped bone tools dating back 1.5 million years found at Olduvai Gorge. Hominins were specifically selecting hippo/elephant long bones to make cool new bone axes. 🏺🧪

1.5 million-year-old bone tools crafted by human ancestors in Tanzania are oldest of their kind

The discovery of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools upends what we know about tool manufacturing in East Africa.

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In the news last week was a trackway and three isolated prints from Koobi Fora, Kenya, around 1.5 million years old, which look to have been made by two different species. The research team that analyzed the prints, led by Kevin Hatala, determined that ...

When hominins walked in each others' tracks

A new study by Kevin Hatala and coworkers finds that Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei walked on the same shores within hours of each other.

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Quotation and image from my 'Evolution Evolving' book. Find our more at www.evolutionevolving.org @princetonupress.bsky.social #evolution #evodevo #philsci #philbio #animalbehavior