When a Skeleton Lies About Its Age The problem with reading disease from bone is that disease changes the bone you're reading

How old was this skeleton, really? A new paper argues that disease alters the very bone markers used to estimate age at death — creating a methodological loop few researchers have addressed head-on. #Paleopathology #Bioarchaeology #HumanEvolution www.anthropology.net/p/when-a-ske...

What a Fractured Skull Can Tell You About How Someone Died A new bioengineering framework helps archaeologists distinguish violent from accidental cranial trauma in the archaeological record.

New bioengineering study on 329 experimental skull impacts offers archaeologists a framework for reading cranial fractures, and distinguishing ancient violence from accidental trauma. Bone thickness and fracture morphology are clues. #Bioarchaeology #ForensicAnthropology #HumanEvolution

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The Theorised Fifth Force

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#FundamentalForces
#HumanEvolution

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Humans May Be Far Older Than We Thought YouTube video by New Scientist

This is getting interesting.
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The Biology of Musicality: What Two Decades of Cross-Species Research Reveals About Why Humans Make Music Music may not be a cultural invention layered onto a silent brain — it may be something older and stranger than that.

New research argues musicality is a biological capacity — assembled from older perceptual, motor, and emotional systems — not just a cultural product. The fossils are silent, but the comparative data aren’t. #Anthropology #HumanEvolution #MusicCognition www.anthropology.net/p/the-biolog...

The Bonobo Myth: Why the Peaceful Ape Story Doesn't Hold Up A new large-scale study finds that Pan paniscus and Pan troglodytes are equally aggressive — they just hit different targets.

New research: chimpanzees are not more aggressive than bonobos. The real difference is in direction — who hits whom. The peaceful bonobo image may say more about sampling bias than evolution. #HumanEvolution #Primatology #Anthropology www.primatology.net/p/the-bonobo...

A Young Man in the Philippines, 2,000 Years Ago, Was Slowly Coming Apart at the Seams A Metal Period burial at Nagsabaran reveals how scurvy and hip ankylosis combined to reshape one life — and how a community responded.

A 2,000-year-old burial in the Philippines is rewriting what we know about scurvy in tropical Southeast Asia — and what ancient communities owed their most vulnerable members. #Paleopathology #HumanEvolution #Bioarchaeology www.anthropology.net/p/a-young-ma...

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Today it's a desert. 105,000 years ago, it held waterfalls & modern homo sapiens

The @dailymaverick.co.za looks at work from an all-women team of HERI researchers who challenged theories of #humanevolution to show our ancestors lived in a water-rich Kalahari
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What a Bone Needle Actually Tells You About the Past The story of needles and awls is more tangled than archaeologists assumed — and that's exactly what makes them interesting.

A new study finds that 69% of ethnographic needle & awl use had nothing to do with staying warm. Cold predicts use, but these tools also sutured wounds, tattooed skin, wove baskets, and marked ceremonies. The bone needle is more than a survival tool. #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #Paleolithic

New on Dryad: "Is the human chin a spandrel? Insights from an evolutionary analysis of ape craniomandibular form" 🧪

🔍 Dataset: bit.ly/46VL7Hs

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#biology #humanevolution #evolutionarybiology #opendata #research #researchintegrity

Assessing the Potential of Ancient Protein Sequences in the Study of Hominid Evolution Abstract. Palaeoproteomic data can provide invaluable insights into hominid evolution over long timescales. Yet, the potential and limitations of ancient p

@ipatramanis.bsky.social @lauritsskov.bsky.social Cappellini & Racimo show that phylogenetic inferences based on ancient protein sequence data may sometimes differ from DNA-based inference.

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The Theorised Fifth Force

#Physics #Biology
#FundamentalForces
#HumanEvolution

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This #InternationalWomensDay, join us here at #HEASVienna as we celebrate women through time...and the women who study them.

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This #InternationalWomensDay, join us here at #HEASVienna as we celebrate women through time...and the women who study them.

Here we look at the work of #HEASMember #SylviaKirchengast at @univie.ac.at

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Grass in the Ear, Grass in the Rectum: What Chimpanzee Fads Reveal About the Origins of Culture A sanctuary in Zambia accidentally documented something strange about why animals — and maybe humans — copy each other.

A chimp named Juma stuck grass in his ear. Within a week, his whole group was doing it. Then he put grass in his rectum. They copied that too. What this tells us about the origins of culture is genuinely unsettling. #Primatology #HumanEvolution #AnimalCulture www.primatology.net/p/grass-in-t...

Project 2045 - Negative PID What if humans could leave their bodies behind and live through their conscience altogether? This is the essence of Project 2045.

Project 2045

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Graecopithecus May Have Been Partially Bipedal, New Fossil Suggests | Sci.News A 7.2-million-year-old thigh bone unearthed at the fossil site of Azmaka in southern Bulgaria displays a mosaic of features suggesting a unique combination of locomotor capabilities, including aspects...

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Interesting.

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Hadza Hunter-Gatherers Share Food Equally — But Mostly When They Have To Self-interest, not spontaneous generosity, drives equality among the Hadza of Tanzania

New research with the Hadza challenges the “noble generosity” model of forager egalitarianism. Equality emerged in experiments only when people could take what they felt was owed — not when they were asked to give. #HunterGatherers #HumanEvolution #BehavioralAnthropology

What Chimpanzees Do With Crystals Tells Us Something Strange About Ourselves A new study tested whether our closest relatives share our ancient attraction to quartz and calcite — and the results are hard to explain away.

Chimps given crystals held them up to their eyes, sorted them from pebbles, and refused to give them back. A new study asks what that tells us about why Homo erectus collected quartz 780,000 years ago. #HumanEvolution #Archaeology #Paleoanthropology #Primatology www.primatology.net/p/what-chimp...

A 7.2-Million-Year-Old Femur from Bulgaria and the Origins of Human Walking A nearly complete thighbone from a Bulgarian fossil site suggests bipedalism may have evolved earlier than we thought, and not in Africa

A 7.2M-year-old femur from Bulgaria shows early bipedalism predating known African bipeds. The bone, tentatively attributed to Graecopithecus, suggests walking upright may have begun in Eurasia, not Africa. #HumanEvolution #Paleoanthropology #Miocene www.anthropology.net/p/a-72-milli...

This #InternationalWomensDay, join us here at #HEASVienna as we celebrate women through time...and the women who study them.

Here we look at the work of #HEASMember #KarinaGrömer at the @nhmwien.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

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Possible Arrowheads from 80,000 Years Ago in Uzbekistan Are Rewriting Where Homo sapiens Came From Tiny stone fragments in a Central Asian rock shelter are challenging the standard story of how our species first entered Europe

New evidence from a 80,000-year-old site in Uzbekistan suggests early humans were using possible arrowheads — and the technology may have traveled with Homo sapiens into Europe. #Paleolithic #HumanEvolution #Archaeology www.anthropology.net/p/possible-a...

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Little Foot's Face, Reconstructed at Last What a 3.67-million-year-old crushed skull from South Africa tells us about where our ancestors came from

Scientists just digitally reconstructed the face of Little Foot, a 3.67-million-year-old Australopithecus from South Africa. The result looks more like East African fossils than local ones. Migration? Ancestral pattern? Still open. #Paleoanthropology #Australopithecus #HumanEvolution

Celebrating women through time...and the women who study them. YouTube video by HEAS

This #InternationalWomensDay, join us here at #HEASVienna as we celebrate women through time...and the women who study them.

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60,000-Year-Old Ostrich Eggshells Depict Ancient Human Thoughts 60,000-Year-Old Ostrich Eggshells Depict Ancient Human Thoughts: Homo sapiens were grooving on geometry in the Stone Age

60,000-Year-Old Ostrich Eggshells Depict Ancient Human Thoughts #Science #Biology #Zoology #AncientHistory #HumanEvolution

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Neanderthal Genomes Reveal Ancient Mating Preferences University of Pennsylvania researchers find Neanderthal X chromosomes carry excess modern human DNA, pointing to sustained mating preferences across ancient populations.

Neanderthal Genomes Reveal Ancient Mating Preferences

#Neanderthals #HumanEvolution #AncientDNA #Genetics #Science #AusNews

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Changes in Diet May Have Led to Humans Having Smoother Skulls Learn more about human skull shape and how it has changed over millions of years.

Changes in Diet May Have Led to Humans Having Smoother Skulls #Science #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #HumanEvolution #DietaryChanges #SkullAnatomy

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