To finish the #ESHE2026 before the General Assembly, Pierre Gousset is presenting his research on phylogeny and postcranial anatomy.

Last week I had the chance to co-organize with my colleagues Jeremy Duveau, Pierre Gousset and Laurent Pallas: Functional Anatomy and Natural History of the Catarrhine Femur 🐒🦍🏃‍♀️ A Workshop in the frame of the @irnbipedalism.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social at the @museedelhomme.fr

Two days of discussions on femoral anatomy and locomotion in catarrhines at the @museedelhomme.fr. Thank you to all our members present in Paris or online who took part in this workshop. This is just the first step towards further research.

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...

Genetic diversity of late Neanderthals in northwestern Europe - Nature

Genetic sequencing of multiple late Neanderthals living less than 52,500 years ago provides an overview of genetic diversity and demonstrates that even low-coverage nuclear genome data can increase re...

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Mateja Hajdinjak@matejahajdi.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This study would absolutely *not be possible* without the hard work of many wonderful people we were incredibly lucky to work with. @hrougier.bsky.social, @isabellecrevecoeur.bsky.social, Patrick Semal, Grégory Abrams, @thibaut-d.bsky.social, Stéphane Pirson, Kévin Di Modica, Pierre Cattelain,

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

Non, nos ancêtres ne se sont pas simplement « redressés » : repenser l’évolution vers notre bipédie

Loin de l’image populaire mais fausse d’un grand singe se redressant peu à peu pour devenir bipède, les recherches dévoilent une réalité plus complexe.

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🚨 Job alert! ⏬

Katerina Harvati@katharv.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🚨 Job alert! The University of Tübingen announces a W3 (Full) Professorship in Early Hominin Evolution in the framework of the DFG Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS': uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... Application deadline: 11.03.2026 🚨

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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...

A curated dataset of great ape genome diversity - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - A curated dataset of great ape genome diversity

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🦴 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 ! 💡

IRN Bipedal Equilibrium@irnbipedalism.bsky.social · last yr.

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

🚩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

Highly selective cannibalism in the Late Pleistocene of Northern Europe reveals Neandertals were targeted prey - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Highly selective cannibalism in the Late Pleistocene of Northern Europe reveals Neandertals were targeted prey

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#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

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Alt: Gif from Friends, Joe and Chandler are standing next to each other and one of them is saying `` you got this '' while the other is dancing .

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🚩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

Femoral and pelvic morpho-structure in extant primates and fossil H...

Introduction The positional repertoire of an individual consists of a combination of postural and locomotor modes whose frequency varies according to age, body mass and environmental conditions (Do...

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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

Palevoprim@palevoprim.bsky.social · last yr.

#SFDP2025 le symposium était animé par H. Hill, C. Couturier, A. Blasi-Toccacceli, Q. Cosnefroy, J. Henrion & @axellewalker.bsky.social @univpoitiers.bsky.social @cnrs.fr @emfpoitiers.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) !