🌋 A massive eruption 74,000 years ago affected the whole planet – archaeologist Jayde Hirniak uses volcanic glass to figure out how people survived. Hirniak is a PhD affiliate at IHO. Her new article appears in @us.theconversation.com!
bit.ly/4nChp05
#volcano #eruption #archaeologist

New essay about our collaborative deep history work in Tanzania!

Thanks to @sapiens.org for inviting me to contribute & for editorial support

Fidelis Masao, Husna Mashaka, Sam Porter, & many more contribute to this work. Thanks @leakeyfoundation.org @asubeinghuman.bsky.social & @asuiho.bsky.social

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

Big congrats to my grad school officemate Brian Villmoare & other @asuiho.bsky.social associated alumni & colleagues on recovering fossils from a very important but poorly-sampled time between 3-2 million years ago. Looking to be significant overlap of Australopithecus & early Homo in East Africa.

Join us in congratulating Robert Boyd, a SHESC professor and research scientist with the @asuiho.bsky.social, who has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences — one of the highest honors a researcher can receive! 🌟

news.asu.edu/20250505-uni...

Why are humans social creatures? An ASU primatologist at IHO looks to evolution and other mammals for answers
Watch the Interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBm9... #primates #evolution #social

We’re the Worms Gone Wild Lab! Led by Dr. India Schneider-Crease, we take a One Health approach to studying the ecology and evolution of infectious disease dynamics in natural systems. Our projects focus on disease networks and multi-host pathogens, primarily working with geladas and Kinda baboons!

Check out the new article about IHO Research Scientist Tom Morgan's work!

IHO Director and Virginia M. Ullman Professor of Natural History and the Environment, Yohannes Haile-Selassie has a new article out with @nature.com "Why Africans should be telling the story of human origins" Read more: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New research indicates effects of PTSD on body vary by culture: ASU scientists first to examine hormones and PTSD in non-industrialized society Read more: bit.ly/41eQIou

✨Join us for Open Door 2025! ✨
A 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 event for the entire family 📆
𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻: Tempe campus: Saturday, Feb. 22, 1–5 p.m.
𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: Location: Walton Center for Planetary Health (WCPH) Floors 1 and 2 Look for the signs and archaeologists 🔍
𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴: 🅿️ Free at the Tyler Street Parking Structure
opendoor.asu.edu

Get your tickets now and mark your calendars for this special evening event in April! More information: iho.asu.edu/events

See Lucy Run, 3.2 Million Years Ago www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/s...

📊Decades of data show age plays an important role in primate reproduction -- with Jacob Feder a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow with the Institute of Human Origins. Read more: bit.ly/40NLZeA

Thank you to @mammalssuck.bsky.social Katie Hinde for the invite to join the Blue Sky community of science. Looking forward to 2024 for the 50th anniversary of the discovery of IHO's "Founding Fossil"—Lucy—A Year for Human Origins—and why it is important to understand our human past for the future!