Yemane G. Tsige

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Eating carrion may have made us human: The importance of scavenging in our evolution A recent study proposes a new paradigm for understanding the role of carrion in the subsistence of human populations throughout their evolution. Ana Mateos and Jesús Rodríguez, scientists at the Centr...

Eating #carrion may have made us human: The importance of #scavenging in our evolution

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New fossils reveal the hand of Paranthropus boisei - Nature Analyses of newly discovered hand and foot bones of a Paranthropus boisei specimen provide insight into possible tool use and other palaeobiology characteristics among Plio-Pleistocene hominin species...

Mongle, C.S., Orr, C.M., Tocheri, M.W. et al. New fossils reveal the hand of Paranthropus boisei. Nature (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Selective use of distant stone resources by the earliest #Oldowan toolmakers

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New discoveries of #Australopithecus and #Homo from #Ledi-Geraru, Ethiopia

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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...

The radiation and geographic expansion of #primates through diverse climates

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Changes in diet drove physical evolution in early humans A Dartmouth-led study shows that early humans developed a taste for grassy carbohydrate-rich plants 700,000 years before they evolved the ideal teeth to chew the tougher plant fibers efficiently. The ...

Changes in diet drove physical evolution in early humans www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Anthropology collections manager job at the AMNH @amnh.org in New York! Additional info: A PhD (or PhD candidacy) is required to apply. Prior training in collections management and databases is essential. This is not a research position. Salary range $93-98k/year. careers.amnh.org/postings/4509

Eighteen million years of diverse enamel proteomes from the East African Rift - Nature The isolation of dental proteins from fossils deposited 1.5 million to 18 million years ago in the Turkana Basin in Kenya, a tropical region, demonstrate the promise of dental enamel for palaeoproteom...

Check out our new paper, led by former postdoc and current colleague Daniel Green on 18 Ma proteins in fossil teeth! Tim Cleland, a proteomics wizard, did the measurements. What's the take home? We hope to use protein fingerprints to study mammal and hominin phylogenetics! bit.ly/OldProteome

Infant craniofacial diversity in Early Pleistocene Homo - Nature Communications Craniofacial development and structure in early Pleistocene Homo is unclear due to a lack of well-preserved specimens. Here, the authors examine infant craniofacial fossils from eastern and southern A...

Infant craniofacial #diversity in Early Pleistocene #Homo

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A look at the EDJ of the #teeth of ancient #Egyptians suggests that foraging people were replaced by farmers during the 6th millennium BCE, rather than taking up farming themselves. Some foragers persisted in #Sudan.

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Interested in ancient food webs? Check out our new study on the paleoecology of the Pliocene large carnivore guild at Hadar (Lower Awash Valley, Ethiopia):
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Why Africans should be telling the story of human origins Yohannes Haile-Selassie wants to shift the trajectory of palaeoanthropology in fossil-rich Ethiopia away from its long colonial heritage.

Why #Africans should be telling the story of human origins

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Genetic study reveals hidden chapter in human evolution Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe phys.org/news/2025-03...

Strontium isotope mapping of elephant enamel supports an integrated microsampling-modeling workflow to reconstruct herbivore migrations - Communications Biology Comparisons of 87Sr/86Sr data from the tusk and molar enamel of a zoo elephant suggest that a microsampling-modeling workflow is the best practice strategy for geospatial reconstructions of seasonal m...

🚨New article🚨Our #research on #elephant🐘and #strontium #isotopes in #teeth🦷is published with
@commsbio.bsky.social
We show how Sr is recorded in teeth and how we use such records to help reconstruct migration. @kevinuno.bsky.social @kpodkovyroff.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Running performance in Australopithecus afarensis

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Image from Skinner et al (2025) showing the SK 46 fossil specimen (a cranium typically attributed to Paranthropus robustus) from Swartkrans, South Africa. The specimen is depicted in sagittal section from the microCT image (top right) and as surface renderings of the cranium in anterior view (top left), lateral view (bottom left), and inferior view (bottom right).

An open-access collection of early fossil hominin scans from Swartkrans, South Africa was recently published in the journal PaleoAnthropology by Skinner et al. Both Paranthropus robustus & early Homo are represented in the assemblage.
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#paleoanthropology

Hominin presence in Eurasia by at least 1.95 million years ago - Nature Communications When hominins dispersed into Eurasia is unclear. Here, the authors present multiple cut-marked bones from Grăunceanu, Romania dated to at least 1.95 million years ago and suggest hominins would have l...

New evidence suggests early human ancestor presence in #Eurasia by at least 2 Mya

Curran et al.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The question of human dominance over the planet has long intrigued scientists and philosophers alike. Recently, #ThomasMorgan, an evolutionary anthropologist @asuiho.bsky.social, proposed a fascinating hypothesis to explain why humans rule the world.

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In southern Africa, grazing herbivores decline over the last 50 kyr, but regional pollen records show no change in grass abundance through time. How do we make sense of these patterns? Check out our new study led by postdoc Alex Norwood (Univ of Utah) in QSA:
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After the amazing paper by @kevinhatala.bsky.social & colleagues on locomotor variation in early #hominins, an exciting new study led by George Brill on forms of locomotion in #foragers
'Extensive locomotor versatility across a global sample of hunter–gatherer societies'
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Ancient footprints capture coexistence of two kinds of human ancestor About 1.5 million years ago, early members of our genus Homo walked along a lakeshore in Africa within hours of another kind of hominin, likely Paranthropus

Ancient #footprints capture #coexistence of two kinds of human ancestor

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*Paranthropus boisei

Contemporary hominin locomotor diversity Footprints in Kenya show that hominin bipedalism had a complex evolutionary history

“The findings help to elucidate the complex evolutionary history of hominin #locomotion and suggest that different #hominins may have interacted across habitats.”

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Footprint evidence for locomotor diversity and shared habitats among early Pleistocene hominins For much of the Pliocene and Pleistocene, multiple hominin species coexisted in the same regions of eastern and southern Africa. Due to the limitations of the skeletal fossil record, questions regardi...

“Analyses showed that the #footprints were made by individuals with different gaits and stances, and the authors hypothesize these to be #Homo erectus and #Paranthropus boilei. “

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Hominin brain size increase has emerged from within-species encephalization | PNAS The fact that rapid brain size increase was clearly a key aspect of human evolution has prompted many studies focusing on this phenomenon, and many...

“Variation among species in brain size is associated with body mass differences but not time.”

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I’d love to be added. Thanks!

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My lab at OSU is hiring a postdoc in skeletal morphology to start fall 25. Salary is at NIH base pay. Deadline to apply is March 2 2025. osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j...

“Much about the #human evolutionary story has changed over the past century, but one reality has not. Despite crucial developments in molecular & primatological studies, fossils & their context remain the primary evidence for understanding our origins.”
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