The Origins of Humankind
Where do we really come from?
2/2 This grew out of years of conversations I've had with some of the most thoughtful scholars on the matter, including @chrisbstringer.bsky.social , @cecileduflot.bsky.social , @vivek123.bsky.social , @lukegldng.bsky.social + the Origins of Humankind with @anthropogeny.org
Grateful to all !🙏
26.11.2025 15:37 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
And many thanks to @dremmabird.bsky.social for help with this!
19.11.2025 15:20 — 👍 14 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Chris Stringer
Yunxian does not disprove a Recent African Origin for Homo sapiens
Yunxian does not disprove Out of Africa youtu.be/jA1I66ghcSw
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Thanks for organizing this talk, @radicalanthro.bsky.social. Always fascinating to listen to @chrisbstringer.bsky.social & think about the complexities Chris touched on in his talk
11.11.2025 19:36 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
THE HUXLEY MEMORIAL LECTURE 2023 - Prof Chris StringerTitle: Mostly Out of Africa: how, when and where Held on Tuesday 7 November 2023 at the Natural History...
Huxley Lecture 2023 - Prof Chris Stringer
A recording of the 2023 Huxley Lecture 🏺🧪
given by Huxley Memorial Medal winner
Prof Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social
is now available from the RAI
youtu.be/0O6l-PjMgBs
08.11.2023 21:04 — 👍 14 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
Hybrid event UCL 11 Nov 2025, 18:30. New evidence from China helps to clarify the 'muddle in the middle' of human evolution www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
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Some additional thoughts on Yunxian, Homo longi, Denisovans and the origin of Homo sapiens
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YouTube video by Conversations with Vania
Rewriting Human Origins: What the 1-Million-Year-Old Skull Reveals | Chris Stringer
youtube.com/watch?v=ONCJ...
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Some additional thoughts on Yunxian, Homo longi, Denisovans and the origin of Homo sapiens
26.10.2025 14:42 — 👍 51 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 3
YouTube video by Conversations with Vania
Rewriting Human Origins: What the 1-Million-Year-Old Skull Reveals | Chris Stringer
youtube.com/watch?v=ONCJ...
04.10.2025 09:11 — 👍 40 🔁 7 💬 4 📌 0
#FossilFriday Replicas of Yunxian 2 reconstruction (L) and Sangiran 17 Homo erectus from Java. Our research indicates that Yunxian is not an erectus, but is an early member of the group containing Homo longi, other Chinese fossils, and Denisovan material
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YouTube video by New Scientist
Our common Neanderthal ancestor could be a million years old, says Chris Stringer
youtube.com/watch?v=MA1c...
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YouTube video by New Scientist
Our common Neanderthal ancestor could be a million years old, says Chris Stringer
youtube.com/watch?v=MA1c...
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#FossilFriday Replicas of Yunxian 2 reconstruction (L) and Sangiran 17 Homo erectus from Java. Our research indicates that Yunxian is not an erectus, but is an early member of the group containing Homo longi, other Chinese fossils, and Denisovan material
26.09.2025 17:16 — 👍 74 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 1
Reconstruction of the Yunxian 2 cranium in standard views.
The phylogenetic position of the Yunxian cranium elucidates the origin of Homo longi and the Denisovans 🏺🧪
Xiaobo Feng, @chrisbstringer.bsky.social et al
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Morphometric and phylogenetic analyses suggest it is an early member of H. longi clade, which includes Denisovans
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#Yunxian 🏺🧪
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#Yunxian 🏺🧪
Reconstruction of Yunxian 2, identified as an early member of the Homo longi (Dragon Man) lineage.
This group also contains other Chinese and Denisovan fossils. Phylogenetic analyses suggest heidelbergensis, neanderthalensis, sapiens and longi lineages all originated more than 1 mya.
26.09.2025 14:01 — 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Chris Stringer
Chris Stringer discusses the 1 million year old Yunxian cranium
I discuss the ~1 million year old Yunxian cranium.. youtu.be/YmtjPnuaUro?...
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The Yunxian 2 reconstruction, alongside the original Yungxian 1 and 2.
Image credit: Mr. Guanghui Zhao
#Yunxian 🏺🧪
Discovered in Hubei Province in 1990, Yunxian 2 skull has been at the center of a taxonomic confusion for the past 35 years
Million-Year-Old Skull Pushes Back Homo Sapiens' Origins By 400,000 Years
www.iflscience.com/million-year...
With comments by @chrisbstringer.bsky.social
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#ESHE2025
Antonietta del Bove ‘Dusting off the oldest fossils: a re-examination of the temporal bone from Castel di Guido (Italy)’
~400 Ka; amazing fauna, Acheulean lithics & bone tools
Homs: 7 MNI.
Temporal bone: GMM; affs to NEA & SH (inclination of mastoid & zygoma) – but not clearly either
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#ESHE2025
Flavien Gomez ‘ Reassessing the Montmaurin-La Nice mandible: divergent phylogenetic signals and implications for hominin diversity during MIS 7’
ASUDAS to score teeth & mand traits; 20 fossils, 4 spp, 14 arch sites. Montmaurin: eNea affs, sp dentally (mands > primitive)
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