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Biological Anthropology

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Posting the latest discoveries in human evolution and primatology. We also spotlight the broader field of biological anthropology—from the history of our discipline to talks, conferences, and job opportunities.

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Bonobos are just as aggressive as chimps, but there's a key difference — the female bonobos A new study of chimpanzee and bonobo groups at zoos reveals similar levels of aggression. However, scientists found stark sex-based differences between the species.

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Howler monkey ancestors began eating leaves 13 million years ago, changing course of primate history in South America Thirteen million years ago, a group of medium-sized monkeys known for guarding their territory among the treetops with fearsome "howls" started doing something new. These monkeys, among the oldest kno...

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The lost languages of ancient humans: Listen to stone-age chat The fossilised bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like?

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Vast scale of overseas human remains held in UK museums decried by MPs and experts Exclusive: Guardian study finds UK museums hold more than 260,000 items of remains, often in sacrilegious ways

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The Oldest Human Ancestor May Have Just Been Found Somewhere Very Unexpected Our story may not begin in Africa after all.

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A 2,850-year-old mass grave in Serbia reveals a shift in prehistoric violence Our study has finally uncovered the circumstances surrounding the death of 77 people, mostly women and girls.

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Teeth smaller than a fingertip reveal the first primate ancestor Tiny, tooth-sized fossils have just reshaped the story of our deepest ancestry. Paleontologists have discovered the southernmost remains ever found of Purgatorius—the earliest-known relative of all pr...

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Arrowhead points found in Central Asia could prove the presence of ‘Homo sapiens’ 80,000 years ago Tiny triangular-shaped flints from arrowheads found in Uzbekistan shed light on how the first settlement of ‘Homo sapiens’ – our modern human ancestors – came to Europe.

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First 3D reconstruction of the face of 'Little Foot' completed Identified as the most complete Australopithecus fossil discovered to date, "Little Foot" was buried in sediments whose movement and weight caused fractures and deformations, making analysis of its sk...

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Ancient mosquitoes developed a taste for early hominins, research reveals The preference of some mosquitoes in the Anopheles leucosphyrus (Leucosphyrus) group—including those that transmit malaria—for feeding on humans may have evolved in response to the arrival of early ho...

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Humans and Neanderthals interbred — but it was mostly male Neanderthals and female humans who coupled up, study finds A preference for pairings between male Neanderthals and female Homo sapiens may answer the question of why there are "Neanderthal deserts" in human chromosomes.

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Meet The 1.5-Million-Year-Old ‘Ghost’ In Your Genes. Hint: We’ve Haven’t Found Its Fossils Yet New genomic research suggests our species descended from a deep fusion between two ancient lineages — one of them a mysterious “ghost.”

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Unravelling the Palaeolithic Welcome to the website for the Unravelling the Palaeolithic conference 2026! Unravelling the Palaeolithic is an ECR and student-led conference with a history of showcasing excellence in research in P...

Unravelling the Palaeolithic 2026: Two day conference on all things Palaeolithic, Pleistocene and Early Human Origins at UCL Institute of Archaeology 19-20th June.

Call for papers now open: sites.google.com/view/unravel...

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Palaeoanthropological evidence from China is changing the picture of hominin evolutionary history - Nature Ecology & Evolution The authors review recent archaeological and palaeoanthropological discoveries from China and discuss how they change our understanding of human evolution.

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A regional-scale mobility model for the early hominin occupation of the Lower Omo Valley (Ethiopia) - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - A regional-scale mobility model for the early hominin occupation of the Lower Omo Valley (Ethiopia)

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Ancient artifacts hint at earliest protowriting Geometric shapes on 40,000-year-old bone and ivory suggest early European Homo sapiens long possessed cognitive tools for language

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Deep-time preservation of amino acids in mammalian fossil tooth enamel - Communications Biology Tooth enamel preserves endogenous amino acids for over 40 million years, representing a robust and underexplored archive for deep-time biomolecular research and enabling future paleoproteomic and isot...

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Ancient DNA Reveals Europe’s Last Hunter-Gatherers Survived Thousands of Years Longer Than Expected Ancient DNA shows that hunter-gatherers in northwestern Europe endured for millennia, with women driving a gradual cultural shift toward farming.

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The axis (C2) from El Sidrón and its implications for Neanderthal upper cervical spine form

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2,000-year-old skulls reveal people in ancient Vietnam permanently blackened their teeth — a stylish practice that persists today In a study of 2,000-year-old skulls from Vietnam, archaeologists discovered that iron was the primary component that dyed teeth black.

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'Smiling' fossil discovered in Northumberland The unusual looking fossil is estimated to be a few hundred million years old dating to the Carboniferous period.

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DNA analysis provides insight into Mongol Empire’s genetics and integration with local cultures Are one in 200 men really related to Genghis Khan? Maybe not, according to a new study from researchers at UW–Madison.

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What are ghost lineages, remnants of the past that still exist in our DNA today? Ghost lineages reveal themselves through ancient genes that still exist in living beings today.

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'Absolute surprise': Homo erectus skulls found in China are almost 1.8 million years old — the oldest evidence of the ancient human relatives in East Asia A new date for Homo erectus skulls found in central China provides new insight into how and when ancient human relatives reached eastern Asia.

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Dog walkers discover 2,000-year-old human footprints on beach Archaeologists say the human and animal prints were made at the height of the Roman Empire

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Ancient drought may have wiped out the real-life hobbits 61,000 years ago A massive, centuries-long drought may have driven the extinction of the “hobbits” of Flores. Climate records preserved in cave formations show rainfall plummeted just as the small human species disapp...

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5,500 years ago, a teenage girl was buried with her father's bones on her chest, new DNA study reveals A novel DNA analysis of skeletons excavated from a Neolithic hunter-gatherer cemetery in Sweden has revealed surprising family relationships.

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News - Early Bronze Age Burial Discovered in Northwestern France - Archaeology Magazine NORMANDY, FRANCE—La Brujula Verde reports that a burial pit dated to between 1900 and 1800 […]

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Scientists Say Your Fingers Hold a Secret of Brain Evolution The secret to how our brains grew may be hidden in our fingers before we are even born.

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The untold story of our remarkable hands and how they made us human The evolution of human hands is one of the most important – and overlooked – stories of our origin. Now, new fossil evidence is revealing their pivotal role

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