Hominin presence in Eurasia by at least 1.95 million years ago😳⚱️🏺
www.romaniajournal.ro/society-peop...
www.romaniajournal.ro/society-peop...
Oldest Human Traces in Europe Found in Romania
The presence of homini about 2 million years old on Romanian territory has been confirmed in a recent study in Nature Communications.
www.romaniajournal.ro
January 21, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I think this might be the first observed instance of lethal coalition aggression in bonobos, albeit within-group rather than between-group 🧪 #BioAnth
1/2 Lethal violence in bonobos
On February 18, five females fatally beat a male at the LuiKotale Bonobo Project (Congo). The authors believe this may have been due to a minor attack on a baby two days earlier. The details are horrific.
(paper) www.cell.com/current-biol...
On February 18, five females fatally beat a male at the LuiKotale Bonobo Project (Congo). The authors believe this may have been due to a minor attack on a baby two days earlier. The details are horrific.
(paper) www.cell.com/current-biol...
November 9, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I think this might be the first observed instance of lethal coalition aggression in bonobos, albeit within-group rather than between-group 🧪 #BioAnth
🚨PAPER ALERT Chimpanzees expand the meanings of their single calls when combining them. They use a variety of mechanisms, analogous to those found in human language, to alter the meanings of single calls in their combinations. Photo by @lirsamuni.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
May 11, 2025 at 8:27 AM
A new study shows that humans’ small faces are unique, in part because they stop growing in adolescence. 🧪
Why modern humans have smaller faces than Neanderthals and chimpanzees
We have smaller faces than Neanderthals and even chimps. A new study may explain how this came to be.
www.livescience.com
March 27, 2025 at 1:23 PM
In our new American Psychologist paper, we debunk the decades old zombie idea that evolutionary psychology is unfalsifiable.
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Out now and open access for four weeks as the editor's choice Topic in Focus in American Psychologist.
Contrary to popular belief, evolutionary psychology hypotheses are testable and falsifiable.
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
Contrary to popular belief, evolutionary psychology hypotheses are testable and falsifiable.
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
January 30, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Some relatable primate news about orangutans! They day nap to recover lost sleep! 🦧
🧪 #science 🏺 #BioAnth #primates #primatology
🧪 #science 🏺 #BioAnth #primates #primatology
I KNEW I was an orangutan in a past life.... because I do the same thing. Heh. #Primates
Orangutans make up for lost sleep with daytime naps, study finds
When it comes to sleeping, few animals are as fastidious as orangutans. Each evening, as twilight approaches, the tree-dwelling great apes meticulously weave a cup-shaped nest out of branches, twigs a...
news.mongabay.com
July 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Some relatable primate news about orangutans! They day nap to recover lost sleep! 🦧
🧪 #science 🏺 #BioAnth #primates #primatology
🧪 #science 🏺 #BioAnth #primates #primatology
Henrich treats bioanth as the healthy foil, counting statistics as rigor.
He should have had Claude plot the distribution of p-values in the top bioanth journals over the past 4 decades.
Shrinking faculty numbers contribute, but can't fully explain why huge swaths of bioanth silently resist reform
He should have had Claude plot the distribution of p-values in the top bioanth journals over the past 4 decades.
Shrinking faculty numbers contribute, but can't fully explain why huge swaths of bioanth silently resist reform
Spent yesterday working on a detailed critique of some of the "methods" that Joseph Henrich used in his recently released report attacking sociocultural anthropology. He was the sole anthropologist involved with the Vanderbilt Report. It's long, but the more I looked the more issues I noticed.
Rigor for thee, but not for me! – Notebook
notebook.anthrowill.com
September 30, 2026 at 2:14 AM
Henrich treats bioanth as the healthy foil, counting statistics as rigor.
He should have had Claude plot the distribution of p-values in the top bioanth journals over the past 4 decades.
Shrinking faculty numbers contribute, but can't fully explain why huge swaths of bioanth silently resist reform
He should have had Claude plot the distribution of p-values in the top bioanth journals over the past 4 decades.
Shrinking faculty numbers contribute, but can't fully explain why huge swaths of bioanth silently resist reform
One of the most impressive feminist bioanth scholars I know has written a new book that sounds BRILLIANT
📚 #BookSky
📚 #BookSky
MY BOOK IS HERE (for me at least, you need to pre-order it right now!). Check out my unboxing (unenveloping?) video and me telling you about a few of the most feminist rage-y chapters.
bookshop.org/p/books/preg...
bookshop.org/p/books/preg...
August 13, 2026 at 2:12 PM
One of the most impressive feminist bioanth scholars I know has written a new book that sounds BRILLIANT
📚 #BookSky
📚 #BookSky
forwarding this to my bioanth professors to instantly kill them
September 15, 2026 at 10:10 PM
forwarding this to my bioanth professors to instantly kill them
Whale remains manufactured into tools 20k years ago, providing a glimpse of whale exploitation in past coastal populations! 🧪 #science 🏺 #BioAnth #ZooArch #bones 💀🦴 #HumanEvolution
May 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Whale remains manufactured into tools 20k years ago, providing a glimpse of whale exploitation in past coastal populations! 🧪 #science 🏺 #BioAnth #ZooArch #bones 💀🦴 #HumanEvolution
Twins were the norm for our ancient primate ancestors − one baby at a time had evolutionary advantages theconversation.com/twins-were-t...
Twins were the norm for our ancient primate ancestors − one baby at a time had evolutionary advantages
Twins are pretty rare, accounting for just 3% of births in the US these days. But new research shows that for primates 60 million years ago, giving birth to twins was the norm.
theconversation.com
December 17, 2024 at 3:50 PM
Two #PhD opportunities in Ravenna, Italy 🇮🇹, in #HumanEvolution within the #ERC project "Last Neanderthals"!
🧪 #science 🏺 #BioAnth #BioArch #Archaeology #Neanderthal #SciComm
🧪 #science 🏺 #BioAnth #BioArch #Archaeology #Neanderthal #SciComm
🚨 Two PhD Positions Available!
Join the ERC Last Neanderthal Project at BonesLab – University of Bologna (Ravenna) 🧬🧠
Apply now and become part of an international team exploring the final chapters of Neanderthal history.
www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...
Join the ERC Last Neanderthal Project at BonesLab – University of Bologna (Ravenna) 🧬🧠
Apply now and become part of an international team exploring the final chapters of Neanderthal history.
www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...
June 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Two #PhD opportunities in Ravenna, Italy 🇮🇹, in #HumanEvolution within the #ERC project "Last Neanderthals"!
🧪 #science 🏺 #BioAnth #BioArch #Archaeology #Neanderthal #SciComm
🧪 #science 🏺 #BioAnth #BioArch #Archaeology #Neanderthal #SciComm
My review of Sex is a Spectrum, by Agustín Fuentes 🧪 #BioAnth blog.edhagen.net/posts/2025-0...
Review of Sex Is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary by Agustín Fuentes – Grasshoppermouse
Blog posts and talk slides
blog.edhagen.net
August 23, 2025 at 1:25 AM
My review of Sex is a Spectrum, by Agustín Fuentes 🧪 #BioAnth blog.edhagen.net/posts/2025-0...
November 20, 2024 at 9:58 PM
There was a significant volcanic eruption in the Afar region of Ethiopia near the Erta Ale volcano today. METEOSAT-IODC weather satellite picked up imagery of the ash cloud moving east over the Red Sea and Yemen.
November 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
yes, this is so important. Was *just* talking about this in my BioAnth class. Students were shocked to see the quotes from leading scientists and scholars who thought this was a great idea. The textbooks were full of eugenic ideas.
and this is a great thread that i'm gonna save for future classes
and this is a great thread that i'm gonna save for future classes
December 4, 2025 at 1:47 PM
yes, this is so important. Was *just* talking about this in my BioAnth class. Students were shocked to see the quotes from leading scientists and scholars who thought this was a great idea. The textbooks were full of eugenic ideas.
and this is a great thread that i'm gonna save for future classes
and this is a great thread that i'm gonna save for future classes
The sexy and formidable male body: men’s height and weight are condition-dependent, sexu#BiologyLettersver:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">ally selected traits royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... | #BiologyLetters #Evolution
The sexy and formidable male body: men’s height and weight are condition-dependent, sexually selected trait
New research from Biology Letters
royalsocietypublishing.org
March 2, 2025 at 10:04 AM
A 43k years old fingerprint discovered in Spain 🇪🇸, revealed by multispectral imaging on a pigment spot on a pebble! Science you can stop being this cool, we get it!
🧪 #science 🏺 #BioAnth #HumanEvolution #Archaeology
🧪 #science 🏺 #BioAnth #HumanEvolution #Archaeology
Amazing new discovery: Oldest full human fingerprint discovered. A Neanderthal is believed to have dipped a finger in red pigment to paint a nose on a pebble around 43,000 years ago. The rock was discovered in the San Lázaro rock shelter in Segovia, Spain
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
May 30, 2025 at 8:13 AM
A 43k years old fingerprint discovered in Spain 🇪🇸, revealed by multispectral imaging on a pigment spot on a pebble! Science you can stop being this cool, we get it!
🧪 #science 🏺 #BioAnth #HumanEvolution #Archaeology
🧪 #science 🏺 #BioAnth #HumanEvolution #Archaeology
🚨nuevo post
Paranthropus capensis y la diversidad de homininos en el sur de África wp.me/p4Bi9E-4ey #NutcrackerMan
Paranthropus capensis y la diversidad de homininos en el sur de África wp.me/p4Bi9E-4ey #NutcrackerMan
Paranthropus capensis y la diversidad de homininos en el sur de África
La mandíbula SK 15 fue descubierta en 1949 en Swartkrans Member 2 y está datada en unos 1,4 Ma (millones de años). Aunque presenta cierta distorsión en su lado derecho, es una de las mandíbulas hom…
wp.me
February 25, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Our review of the import of the Man the Hunter conference and volume, which contrary to recent media coverage actually expressed diverse views on hunter-gatherers and inspired decades of research, is now published 🧪 #BioAnth
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
1. Does research by @caraocobock.bsky.social & others, widely reported in SciAm & elsewhere, finally dispel hunter-gatherer myths that have persisted since the 60's?
In a preprint led by @vivek123.bsky.social The Meanings & Dividends of Man the Hunter: osf.io/preprints/os... we respond 🧵🧪
In a preprint led by @vivek123.bsky.social The Meanings & Dividends of Man the Hunter: osf.io/preprints/os... we respond 🧵🧪
March 16, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Our review of the import of the Man the Hunter conference and volume, which contrary to recent media coverage actually expressed diverse views on hunter-gatherers and inspired decades of research, is now published 🧪 #BioAnth
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
1/ 🧵 New preprint out today 🤩
With @djsmith90.bsky.social and co we have done deep-dive into grandmothering in the Agta to unpick the role of demography in shaping the role of grandmothers in direct childcare 👇🧪🏺
#Grandmothering #demography #BioAnth #EvPsych
With @djsmith90.bsky.social and co we have done deep-dive into grandmothering in the Agta to unpick the role of demography in shaping the role of grandmothers in direct childcare 👇🧪🏺
#Grandmothering #demography #BioAnth #EvPsych
OSF
osf.io
January 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
1/ 🧵 New preprint out today 🤩
With @djsmith90.bsky.social and co we have done deep-dive into grandmothering in the Agta to unpick the role of demography in shaping the role of grandmothers in direct childcare 👇🧪🏺
#Grandmothering #demography #BioAnth #EvPsych
With @djsmith90.bsky.social and co we have done deep-dive into grandmothering in the Agta to unpick the role of demography in shaping the role of grandmothers in direct childcare 👇🧪🏺
#Grandmothering #demography #BioAnth #EvPsych
I’m reading an article about the evolution of menopause (by Lynette Sievert, in the Yearbook of Bio Anth, 2024, for the Bioanth nerds), and I have to laugh at the point where she mentions that periodically, a new generation “discovers” menopause and thinks it’s “new”.
September 3, 2026 at 11:05 PM
I’m reading an article about the evolution of menopause (by Lynette Sievert, in the Yearbook of Bio Anth, 2024, for the Bioanth nerds), and I have to laugh at the point where she mentions that periodically, a new generation “discovers” menopause and thinks it’s “new”.
December 9, 2024 at 12:20 AM