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Thomas Püschel

@tpuschel.bsky.social

Associate Professor in Evolutionary Anthropology @ox.ac.uk and Tutorial Fellow at @StHughsCollege Interested in Palaeontology & Palaeoanthropology 🦴

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Thomas Püschel@tpuschel.bsky.social · last mo.

Loved being part of this study! We investigated how body size changed through time in human evolution, finding a moderate general increase among all hominins and a marked jump in later Homo. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @pnas.org @ox.ac.uk @oxford-anthro.bsky.social @uniofreading.bsky.social

Competing models of hominin body size evolution | PNAS

The evolutionary trajectory of hominin body size remains contested, with prior studies suggesting a gradual increase or lineage-specific shifts. He...

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University of Oxford@ox.ac.uk · 3mo ago

90% of people are right-handed, and no other primate species comes close to this level of hand preference. A new Oxford-led study suggests the reason may lie in two defining features of human evolution: walking on two legs and the expansion of the human brain. More info ⬇️ https://bit.ly/42Cbvnc

A close-up image of a human right hand against a blue background. Text at the bottom reads: “Why is almost everyone right-handed? The answer may lie in how we learned to walk.” Below this is the University of Oxford branding and website URL.
Thomas Püschel@tpuschel.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We use data from ~2,000 individuals and 41 species to show that factors such as encephalization and bipedalism explain why at population level we are so predominantly right-handed (no other primate species shows it this strongly) www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-05... @oxford-anthro.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk

Why is almost everyone right-handed? The answer may lie in how we learned to walk

Humans are the only primates with a population-wide hand preference. A new Oxford-led study, 'Bipedalism and brain expansion explain human handedness', published in PLOS Biology, traces it back to bip...

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Marta Mirazon Lahr@martamlahr.bsky.social · 10mo ago

#ESHE2025 Thomas Puschel ‘The evolutionary singularity of human handedness’ Is human handedness exceptional? 87% R handed. Study: 2000 ind fr 41 primate spp ONLY HUMANS have an outstanding handedness bias! Increase during human evolution No existing hypothesis best explains findings

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Dr Alessio Veneziano@aveneziano.bsky.social · 12mo ago

While it is often believed early #primates dispersed and radiated in warm tropical forests, new evidence suggest they may have occupied arid, cold and temperate regions too! 🦧🦍🐒🧪 #science #primatology #BioAnth doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

The radiation and geographic expansion of primates through diverse climates | PNAS

One of the most influential hypotheses about primate evolution postulates that their origin, radiation, and major dispersals were associated with e...

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Science X / Phys.org@sciencex.bsky.social · last yr.

Fossil and environmental data indicate that early primates evolved in cold, seasonal climates in North America, challenging the long-standing view that they originated in tropical forests. doi.org/g9v72t

Fossil evidence reveals early primates evolved in cold climates, not tropical forests

Primates—the group of animals that includes monkeys, apes and humans—first evolved in cold, seasonal climates around 66 million years ago, not in the warm tropical forests scientists previously believed.

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Thomas Püschel@tpuschel.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🌍❄️ New paper out! Early primates didn’t just thrive in tropical forests, they evolved and dispersed through cold & temperate climates 🐒🧊 Enjoyed being part of this collaboration led by @avaria_jorge! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

The radiation and geographic expansion of primates through diverse climates | PNAS

One of the most influential hypotheses about primate evolution postulates that their origin, radiation, and major dispersals were associated with e...

doi.org