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Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias @ceciliapad.bsky.social · Aug 1

Really cool study looking at how behaviour precedes morphological change across taxa - and implications for human evolution 💀🧪 massive congrats to all the authors, including @vivek123.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Behavior drives morphological change during human evolution

Dietary shifts and corresponding morphological changes can sometimes evolve in succession, not concurrently—an evolutionary process called behavioral drive. Detecting behavioral drive in the fossil re...

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Hannes Rathmann @hannesrathmann.bsky.social · Jul 29

Very proud of my Master's student, Kim Hofmann, who was awarded the 500€ Rudolf Virchow Prize for her outstanding thesis! The prize was presented by Prof. Raiko Krauss, chairman of the Berlin Society for #Anthropology, #Ethnology, and #Prehistory. Congratulations, Kim!

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Hannes Rathmann @hannesrathmann.bsky.social · Jun 19

An amazing study by brilliant colleagues and dear friends. Give it a read!

Manuel Will @manuelwill.bsky.social · Jun 18

Published today in @nature.com our new study on the drivers of the successful dispersal of modern humans out of Africa! A huge, interdisciplinary team effort long in the making, headed by @elliescerri.bsky.social . Glad to have contributed! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #archaeology #Evolution

Major expansion in the human niche preceded out of Africa dispersal - Nature

Analysis of species distribution models in a pan-African database comprising chronometrically dated archaeological sites over the past 120,000 years shows major expansion in the human niche from 70 ka...

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Hannes Rathmann @hannesrathmann.bsky.social · Jun 6

Honoured to serve on the Advisory Committee for the DeMoDa project at @cenieh.bsky.social this week, powered by @hlusko.bsky.social’s ERC project Tied2Teeth – together with eight fellow experts in dental anthropology.
www.cenieh.es/en/press/new...

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‬picture from: https://www.cenieh.es/en/press/news/cenieh-develops-dental-morphological-database

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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · May 22

I am extremely honored that our Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS' was selected for funding by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft!! This is incredible news and I look forward to exciting times ahead setting up this new Cluster!

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Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias @ceciliapad.bsky.social · May 23

🚨NEW PAPER from the @eegcam.bsky.social!🚨I have never been as proud of something as of the work that finally we can share today: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... - we show how a climatically driven Pan African meta population model explains our species genetic and morphological diversity 🧬💀

Pan-African metapopulation model explains Homo sapiens genetic and morphological evolution

Emerging evidence has challenged the traditional view of a single-region origin for Homo sapiens, suggesting instead that our species arose and diversified across multiple geographically distinct popu...

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Hannes Rathmann @hannesrathmann.bsky.social · May 2

Truly honored to have received this award - thank you so much! 🥳 It was a pleasure meeting so many new colleagues and friends at #HumanEvo25 ! @martamlahr.bsky.social @lquintanamurci.bsky.social @aliceleplongeon.bsky.social @cschlebu.bsky.social

Wellcome Connecting Science Learning and Training @eventswcs.bsky.social · May 1

Congratulations to our poster and short talk prize winners who presented at this week's Human Evolution conference! 👏#HumanEvo25

We're impressed by the quality of the research presented. Wishing you all the best in your future endeavors!

Thanks to @hpgg-pivot.bsky.social for sponsoring the prizes.

A group of four conference delegates standing on a stage with a brown wooden floor. They are the winners of the poster and short talk prizes at the 2025 Human Evolution conference. They are each holding a certificate.

They are joined on the stage by four members of the conference committee.

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Palaeotrails @palaeotrails.bsky.social · Apr 29

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Exploring human migrations & demographic change resulting from environ. change.
Applying new Pheno-ABC modelling method to skeletal phenotypes 🦷 Results show significant population migration patterns beginning ~47kya, changing ~28kya and again after ~14kya.
#HumanEvo25

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Hannes Rathmann @hannesrathmann.bsky.social · Apr 10

Ouch! This Celtic warrior took an arrow to the butt 🏹 But thanks to some surprisingly advanced ancient medics, he survived! A peek into healthcare 2,500 years ago: doi.org/10.1002/oa.3...
#Archaeology
#Anthropology

Skeletal remains found in the central chamber of mount 4 from the Gießübel-Talhau necropolis in Herbertingen-Hundersingen. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.3395

Ventrolateral and dorsomedial side of the left pelvic bone with highlighted defect. The wound channel is red, while the bone spalling is green. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.3395

CT-scan of the left pelvic bone. The detail shows a cross section through the ischial bone. The segmented wound channel is highlighted in red, while the funnel shaped bone spalling on the dorsomedial side is highlighted in green. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.3395

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Judith Beier @judithbeier.bsky.social · Apr 4

This week, I presented our research on skeletal trauma prevalence estimation at the Meeting of the Society for Anthropology in Kiel #bioanthropology #skeletaltrauma #paleopathology

Our 2024 OA paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415..., co-authored by @hannesrathmann.bsky.social & @matteosanton.bsky.social

Estimating trauma prevalence from incomplete human skeletal remains - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Estimating trauma prevalence from incomplete human skeletal remains

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Hannes Rathmann @hannesrathmann.bsky.social · Apr 3

Just wrapped up the 15th International Meeting of the Society for Anthropology with a wonderful visit to the #Haithabu Viking Museum. Many thanks to Katharina Fuchs for organizing this interesting conference, where I met many new colleagues and friends.

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Hannes Rathmann @hannesrathmann.bsky.social · Mar 10

Visited the stunning #HolleyShelter site in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Super interesting tour by the excavator Gregor Bader

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Hannes Rathmann @hannesrathmann.bsky.social · Feb 21

Know a colleague who has made a novel research contribution to dental anthropology? Nominate them for the 2025 Innovation in Dental Anthropology Award! Deadline is March 10. More info here: www.dentalanthropology.org/innovation

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Marlen Fröhlich @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social · Feb 19

🚨Come work with us in charming Tübingen and become a member of our growing Freigeist group! We offer a 2-year postdoc position on the communicative plasticity in wild and captive bonobos, fully funded by @volkswagenstiftung.bsky.social. Applications open until March 15th. bit.ly/4gVa5Je

Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d, E13 TV-L, 100%)

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Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social · Feb 16

An important new paper by @beademarch.bsky.social and her team challenges how we use ancient proteins to study the past.

Analysis of 1,832 sequences from waterfowl (ducks & geese) reveals why palaeoproteomics isn't the simple solution we hoped for...
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www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...

A circular phylogenetic tree displaying the protein annotation patterns across 160 Anatidae (waterfowl) genomes. The tree branches radiate from the center, with each tip representing a different species. The outer ring consists of colored dots representing 13 different proteins, with black dots indicating >70% complete sequences, pink dots showing <70% complete sequences, and white dots showing no annotation. The samples are grouped and colored by genus, with major genera like Aythya, Spatula, Mergus, Chloephaga, Tadorna, and MelanitaSomateria labeled. Below the tree, a legend shows sequence counts and mean coverage percentages for each protein, ranging from 81-168 sequences and 79.9%-99.9% coverage. A node score legend indicates bootstrap support values using different shades of grey."

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Hannes Rathmann @hannesrathmann.bsky.social · Feb 1

Had such an amazing and inspiring time at the HEIRS Opening Symposium at ICArEHB in Faro (@icarehb.bsky.social). Don’t miss out on their new exciting funding opportunities for synthesis projects in human evolution:[
heirs.icarehb.com/calls-traini...

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Hannes Rathmann @hannesrathmann.bsky.social · Jan 21

Interesting read: The skeleton from the Octagon at Ephesos isn't Cleopatra's sister Arsinoë after all. It's a Roman boy with growth disorders.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...

The cranium from the Octagon in Ephesos - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - The cranium from the Octagon in Ephesos

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Armando Falcucci @armandofalcucci.bsky.social · Jan 10

1/ #NewPaperAlert: Thrilled to finally share our new paper on #Fumane Cave after a long and time-consuming research process! 🏺

#Archaeology #Anthropology #Paleolithic #StoneTools #HumanEvolution #FlintFriday #FossilFriday

Link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Refitting the Context: A Reconsideration of Cultural Change among Early Homo sapiens at Fumane Cave through Blade Break Connections, Spatial Taphonomy, and Lithic Technology - Journal of Paleolithic A...

High-resolution stratigraphic frameworks are crucial for unraveling the biocultural processes behind the dispersals of Homo sapiens across Europe. Detailed technological studies of lithic assemblages ...

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Dr Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · Jan 15

This is the exciting paper drop. New aDNA science out of Dublin.

Matrilineal descent systems demonstrated for Late Iron Age Dorset.

Building on the work of Mel Giles (2012) who first spotted the potential for it in the archaeology of Middle Iron Age Yorkshire.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Continental influx and pervasive matrilocality in Iron Age Britain - Nature

An analysis of ancient mitochondrial and nuclear DNA shows evidence of matrilocal communities in Iron Age Britain.

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Hannes Rathmann @hannesrathmann.bsky.social · Jan 12

Happy to share my latest work with archaeologist @manuelwill.bsky.social on lithic flake variability at the Middle Stone Age site of Sibhudu, South Africa. As a bioanthropologist, this was my first non-bone paper, and I loved the interdisciplinary journey!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Exploring the utility of unretouched lithic flakes as markers of cultural change - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Exploring the utility of unretouched lithic flakes as markers of cultural change

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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · Jan 10

Science reporting on the mass resignation of the editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution, highlighting some of the problems with commercial scientific publishing.
OA PaleoAnthropology journal (www.paleoanthropology.org) highlighted among JHE's successors
#openaccess #humanevolution

Journal editors’ mass resignation marks ‘sad day for paleoanthropology’

Exodus from the Journal of Human Evolution leaves a flagship journal in crisis

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Manuel Will @manuelwill.bsky.social · Jan 10

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Can we use mere stone flakes to track cultural change?
@hannesrathmann.bsky.social and I test this with simple flake attributes & a newly developed statistical method! All data, methods and code are #openaccess
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#archaeology #statistics #openscience
Feedback welcome!

Exploring the utility of unretouched lithic flakes as markers of cultural change - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Exploring the utility of unretouched lithic flakes as markers of cultural change

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Hannes Rathmann @hannesrathmann.bsky.social · Dec 29

Let’s make 'thinking time' for scientists a year-round habit, not just a luxury of the Christmas holiday season. 🧠🎄

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Caley Orr @caleyorr.bsky.social · Dec 18

Our new paper announcing a freely available database of 3D scans of primate skeletal material--a major effort led by Sergio Almécija & his team at the American Museum of Natural History.
🧪 🏺 #paleosky #anatomy #primates #anthropology #morphology #zoology #paleoanthropology #openscience

Primate Phenotypes: A Multi-Institution Collection of 3D Morphological Data Housed in MorphoSource - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - Primate Phenotypes: A Multi-Institution Collection of 3D Morphological Data Housed in MorphoSource

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Hannes Rathmann @hannesrathmann.bsky.social · Dec 17

A great new #anthropology read in @currentbiology.bsky.social for anyone interested in human dental morphology and variation: 🦷

www.cell.com/current-biol...

The study identifies novel genetic variants influencing tooth crown dimensions, some of which were introgressed from Neanderthals.

PITX2 expression and Neanderthal introgression in HS3ST3A1 contribute to variation in tooth dimensions in modern humans

Tooth morphology varies through evolution and in modern human populations, but little is known about the genetics of this variation. Li et al. identify genes associated with tooth crown dimensions and expressed during dental development. Variants in one gene stem from Neanderthal, suggesting their role in human dental evolution.

www.cell.com

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