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Digging Into a Dream: A Ph.D. Student Follows Her Passion for Paleoanthropology Ariel Barrera returns to the American Museum of Natural History — where her fascination began — to study ancient teeth and human evolution.

From "Night at the Museum" to digging up Miocene fossils in Spain, Ph.D. student Ariel Barrera shares how she is living her childhood dream www.gc.cuny.edu/news/digging... @nycep.bsky.social @amnh.org

Kayaca, a new vertebrate locality from the Upper Miocene of Türkiye and its importance for the Turolian biogeography of the eastern peri-Mediterranean region - Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironment... We present here a new Upper Miocene vertebrate locality, Kayaca, from the Beyağaç Basin in southwestern Türkiye that was discovered after surface survey and was subsequently systematically excavated. ...

Our article on Kayaca, a new Miocene locality in Turkey, is now out in the Senckenberg journal Paleodiversity and Paleoenvironments! Congratultions to George Konidaris, Ahmet Aytek and the whole team!
The first result from this wonderful collaboration ✨🎉
#openaccess

The pollen analysis from Marathousa 1, an MIS12 Lower Paleolithic elephant butchering site in Megalopolis basin (Greece) is now published!!
Congratulations to Stella Kyrikou and team!!! ✨ 🎉

It's wonderful to see this important work finally out!
#openaccess #humanevolution

doi.org/10.1017/qua....

How do you design exhibits on local African paleontology? You start by talking to the people who live where the fossils are from. Now we only have bare walls, but we got enough ideas to fill the space...and then some! #rusingaisland

Do you have field work experience? Do you want more? Our team wants YOU to manage our field site studying Kinda baboons in Kasanka National Park, Zambia!

Start date is this August 2025 so apply ASAP!

Job ad here: tinyurl.com/KindaBaboon

A summary of our new paper, featuring the brilliant work of @munyaka.bsky.social and @danpeppe.bsky.social. Always new surprises from the fossil record!

Excited to share this new #OpenAccess pub. It completely overturns our understanding of...nothing. It won't be in your newsfeed. Sometimes #science advances by basic, gut-it-out research. Would love comments about our approach to fossil alpha-taxonomy.

paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...

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...

20 years ago, on April 22, 2005, Misha the zoo elephant was moved from Vallejo, CA to Salt Lake City, UT. Her relocation inspired a suite of studies about isotope turnover, including my recent one published in @commsbio.bsky.social Learn more about the study here: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

New Anatomy Pub! 🦴🫁🧠 We report count and pattern of facial nerve branches near the TMJ based on cadaveric dissections - we also found that pics in anatomy texts are WAY OFF! Please pay for new #medicalillustration instead of repeating old errors! #anatomy #AnatomyEd #TMJ #MedEd #art 🔗 rdcu.be/egiKs

Costs and constraints of cellular immune activity during development in an arboreal primate | Royal Society Open Science Evolutionary life history theory predicts that, during development, investment in immunity must be balanced with the demands of growth. How, and at what time scales, this balance is negotiated is unclear. In this study, we examined the potential energetic ...

🚨 New pub 🚨
On the energetics 🔋 of cellular immune activity 🦠 in juvenile arboreal primates 🐒 (not toads and snakes) and its costs 💸 in terms of growth 📈 in lean body mass 💪.

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

New #openaccess paper by our PhD student, Stephanie Lismann, and other colleagues on the reconstruction of the demographic profile of Final Neolithic and Early Bronze populations in Baden-Württemberg, Germany! Congrats! 🎉
⛓️‍💥 Link to the paper ⬇️
journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ak...

📢Job alert!

W3 (Full) Professorship in Human Ecology at the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, University of Tübingen.

⛓️‍💥 berufungen.uni-tuebingen.de

Deadline for applications: May 22, 2025 🗓

Please share and repost 🙏🏼 🤩

For questions please contact Prof. Harvati.

The vertebral column evolves through modularity & integration, shaping support & CNS protection. Studying 4 catarrhine primate taxa, researchers found widespread integration, w/hominoids showing more modularity than macaques
Villamil & Middleton: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Wonderful celebration of Terry Harrison's career at #AABA2025! Thanks @3dmandibleny.bsky.social and Denise Su for organizing, and thank you Terry for agreeing to be toasted (and roasted)!

@magratnj.bsky.social
@julsam.bsky.social

Here, we propose a new perspective on early stone tool technology: emulation of naturally occurring sharp-edged stones (naturaliths) instead of inventing via 'Eureka!' moments. Nature provided the blueprint; hominins took it further.

🔗 doi.org/10.1111/arcm...

#Archaeology #Stonetools

We're building a museum on Rusinga Island to tell the stories of fossils found there and the local people who discovered them! No luck getting funding for this, so we're doing it the old-fashined way: digging in the cushions for coins, and building bit by bit.

Primatologists Shahrina Chowdhury and Marina Cords join Research Scientist Sergio Almecija (all in @nycep.bsky.social) on 3/22 at Ensemble Studio Theatre to discuss new ESTSloan play HAVE YOU MET JANE GOODALL AND HER MOTHER? by Michael Walek @sloanfoundation.bsky.social

I enjoyed the opportunity to present the diamond open access, community owned, PaleoAnthropology journal and discuss the situation at the Journal of Human Evolution at the NYCEP seminar, City University of New York last week!

Thank you to Larissa Swedell for the invitation.

Lots of primate and Early Miocene science presented by McNulty Lab at #AABA2025!

Yesterday was such a full day at the AABA! Highlights included the symposium on A. africanus, the symposium in honor of Terry Harrison, the Paleoanthropology sessions, and meetings with so many colleagues and friends! A very productive conference indeed! 🤩
#AABA

SO PROUD of my student Reese, who won the @anthgen.bsky.social OTPAG Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Presentation for their poster on Gut Microbial Sampling as a Proxy for SIV Status in Wild Vervet Monkeys! Well done, Reese, and so well-deserved!

Also a HUGE congratulations to my PhD student Mel for winning the @bioanth.org Outstanding Presentation Award for her talk on A Reference Mitogenome for the Yellow-Tailed Woolly Monkey Using Oxford Nanopore Sequencing… AMAZING job Mel! So proud of you!

My first #AABA2025 was a success! Really happy to share a photo from my talk as my first post here :)

excellent timing for a new publication to come out in #AJBA! 🧪 proud to be a co-author on this! @awutich.bsky.social @zacharydubois.bsky.social @robingnelson.bsky.social @cvansickle.bsky.social @awrgenes.bsky.social @ethnoprimate.bsky.social @jradovicfanta.bsky.social @kstsosie.bsky.social et al.!

Fossil face found in Spanish cave belongs to first known Western European Ancient remains suggest at least two types of early humans roamed Europe about 1 million years ago

Exciting new find from Atapuerca!

Here is the write up in Science, with commentary from former Tübingen fellow Mirjana Roksandic and myself.