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Chris Campisano

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Geologist & Paleoanthropologist @ Institute of Human Origins (IHO) and Arizona State University (ASU)

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Chris Campisano

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Happy to be part of such a great team.

ASU Institute of Human Origins @asuiho.bsky.social · Aug 13

ASU scientists uncover new fossils — and a new species of ancient human ancestor

The fossils found in northeastern Ethiopia date between 2.6M to 2.8M years ago, shed new light on human evolution
bit.ly/416zE4S #paleoanthropology #humanevolution #fossils #africa

August 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM

Chris Campisano

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A little something for #FossilFriday led by Chris Kirk.
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A Middle Eocene Haplorhine Frontal Bone From the Tornillo Basin of Texas, and Its Implications for the Phylogenetic Relationships of Rooneyia and Other Paleogene Primates

Middle Eocene haplorhine frontal bone (TMM 46513-1) from the Tornillo Basin of Texas.

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April 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM

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Clément Zanolli

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JHE update: here below is a summary of the JHE Open Forum at AABA and a final response to recent Elsevier communications

Summary of JHE Open Forum & response to Elsevier communications

We thank all those who attended and participated in the Open Forum (concerning the en masse resignation of the JHE Editorial Board) which was held at the annual meeting of the AABA on Saturday, March 15th, from 10:30am–12:00pm. The Open Forum was led by Emeritus Editors Andrea Taylor (in person) and Clément Zanolli (via Zoom); Emeritus Editor Mark Grabowski sent his regrets as he was unable to attend this year’s AABA meeting. The meeting was well attended (~50–60) and included a number of Emeritus Editors and immediate past and earlier Editorial Board (EB) members. What follows is a summary of the discussion that took place during this Open Forum. Additionally, in the days before the Open Forum, Elsevier published an editorial and a publisher’s note. While we will not engage in continued back-and-forth discussion of communications from Elsevier as we do not see this as productive, we do believe there is a crucial need to set the record straight on several claims and for the paleoanthropological community to understand the implications of some of the assertions in those communications.

Summary of the Open Forum:
The forum began with a short presentation which included a brief background of changes in the publishing world, including the history of Open Access (OA) in Europe and the 2022 US federal mandate by the Office of Science and Technology that all federal agencies make federally funded research freely available to the public immediately upon publication by the end of 2025 (NSF Public Access Plan 2.0); the implications of the 2025 mandate for authors in the US; the consequences of the OA mandate in Europe and the US for publishers, journals, and authors; and the fundamental misalignment of the goals of JHE and the goals of the publisher that ultimately led to the en masse resignation (the details of which were communicated at the time of the resignation and were not the focus of the Open Forum)

April 1, 2025 at 11:21 AM

Chris Campisano

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JHE Update: the previous JHE Editorial Board no longer has access to the editorial management system. Despite the previous editors and many other associate editors volunteering to finish handling any papers already in our pipeline, we have been cut-off without any notice. 1/2

January 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM

Chris Campisano

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Our recent paper confirming Kapi as the most compelling earliest hylobatid (gibbon ancestor). Thanks to the heavy lifting by my coauthors, I even understand most of it! (and likely my second to last paper in the “old” JHE).

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Additional analyses of stem catarrhine and hominoid dental morphology support Kapi ramnagarensis as a stem hylobatid

Fossil gibbons are exceedingly rare, with much of the hylobatid fossil record and, consequently, hylobatid evolutionary history remaining unknown. Kap…

www.sciencedirect.com

January 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM

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Mark Grabowski

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Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.

December 26, 2024 at 4:52 PM

Chris Campisano

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We lost another long time friend and field assistant of the Hadar Research Project. Ibrahim Digra was already one of the senior workers when I started in 2001, and I was happy (and surprised) to have him as part of our crew earlier this year. RIP old friend. (credit M. Mekonnen for the 2023 photo).