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European Society for the Study of Human Evolution @eshesociety.bsky.social · 14d

The #ESHE2025 meeting in Paris starts tomorrow (please use this hashtag for sharing). If you are interested in the program, you find it here mcusercontent.com/9347aa3598d5... - Members have received an email for accessing the live stream! We hope you all enjoy the conference in person or online. /MW

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Many Minds podcast @manymindspod.bsky.social · 29d

You've heard of the human "cognitive revolution" around 40 kya—a moment when our species suddenly became "behaviorally modern." Have you also heard that this story is wrong?

From the archive, our episode w/ @elliescerri.bsky.social & @manuelwill.bsky.social!

Listen: disi.org/revisiting-t...

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tdcapellini.bsky.social @tdcapellini.bsky.social · Aug 27

1) I am delighted to present this terrific tour de force research conducted by my post-doc Dr. Gayani Senevirathne @gayani.bsky.social and published today in Nature -
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The evolution of hominin bipedalism in two steps - Nature

The human pelvis exhibits distinct spatiotemporal ossification patterns and an ilium cartilage growth plate that is shifted perpendicularly compared with those of other mammals and non-human primates—...

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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · Jul 21

'we find that, based on current evidence pertaining to these costs, the case for inferring know-how copying abilities in Oldowan or even Early Acheulean stone toolmakers is weak..this points to a later date for the establishment of this crucial human skill' link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Costs of Early Stone Toolmaking cannot Establish the Presence of Know-how Copying - Human Nature

Compared to other apes, humans show a distinctive capacity for the cultural learning and transmission of know-how: we extract know-how from other individuals and artifacts in ways that regularly give ...

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Manuel Will @manuelwill.bsky.social · Aug 26

For my German-speaking followers: A 20-minute Podcast episode in which I discuss the results of our recent paper in Nature within the wider context of the global dispersal of our species in the Pleistocene! detektor.fm/wissen/forsc... #archaeology #evolution #podcast #scicom

Ökologische Anpassung: Aufbruch nach Eurasien

Vor 50.000 Jahren gelangten erstmals Menschen aus Afrika nach Eurasien. Wie haben sie das geschafft? Womöglich durch ökologische Anpassung.

detektor.fm

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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · Aug 7

Job Alerts!🚨 We are looking to fill three Independent Junior Research Group Leader positions in the 'HUMAN ORIGINS' Cluster of Excellence at the University of Tübingen
Application deadline: Sept. 10, Starting Jan. 1, 2026

1. Genotype-Phenotype interactions:
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Independent Junior Research Group Leader (m/f/d, 100%)

uni-tuebingen.de

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Shumon T. Hussain @shumon.bsky.social · Aug 18

ZOOGESTURES has a web presence now! 🐒🦥🐻‍❄️

zoogestures.uni-koeln.de

with @nakedprimate.bsky.social @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social

🏺🗃️📕

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Netzwerk Nachhaltige Wissenschaft @nnwiss.bsky.social · Jul 24

ZEIT Wissen3 stellt heute die Initiative PD Prekär vor. Mehr dazu gab es vor kurzem im Wiarda-Blog. Sehr erhellendes Gespräch u.a. zu den Absurditäten der Titulaturlehre als Grundbedingung dafür, den Titel ‚Privatdozent*in‘ behalten zu dürfen. www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/07....

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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · Jul 21

Where do the Dmanisi hominins fit on the human evolutionary tree?
dx.doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Manuel Will @manuelwill.bsky.social · Jul 17

Looking forward to see you there and here about new results! Which session(s) are you in!?

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PEOPLE_ERC_StG @people-erc-stg.bsky.social · Jul 13

And it's a wrap! After 7 weeks of fieldwork filled with discoveries and new encounters, the team has returned to Bordeaux.

See you soon at SAfA 2025 in Portugal!

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Manuel Will @manuelwill.bsky.social · Jul 17

Exactly my problem with recent humans as well!

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Manuel Will @manuelwill.bsky.social · Jul 16

Sure, and your opinion is absolutely valid. This is not an in-field consensus though and browsing through recent papers, modern human is still everywhere. Also, I think we need to be careful distinguishing between a valid academic discussion (what even means "modern"?!) and scientific communication.

Manuel Will @manuelwill.bsky.social · Jul 16

Happy to share my perspective! I do think that some in my field don't like the term (in general "modern/modernity" has some issues - with some people discussing this all the way to Bruno Latour) but there is no consensus to not use it.

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Manuel Will @manuelwill.bsky.social · Jul 15

From my point of view, from inside the field, I still use modern humans (though I don't like 'archaic' humans!) and I think science writers etc. can and should still use it. "Sapiens" really looks odd! Who said or told you that you shouldn't?

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Jan-Martin Wiarda @jmwiarda.bsky.social · Jul 9

"Der Traum verliert an Anziehungskraft"

DHV-Präsident Lambert Koch über Wissenschaftlerkarrieren, Tenure Track, die Rolle der Habilitation – und warum verbindliche Befristungsquoten an Hochschulen für ihn keine Lösung sind, sondern neue Probleme schaffen könnten.

www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/07...

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Manuel Will @manuelwill.bsky.social · Jul 8

Fantastic, congrats! Will get a copy for myself :)

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Shumon T. Hussain @shumon.bsky.social · Jul 8

www.sidestone.com/books/contes...

Perhaps this PhD of mine will finally become a book reality after all 😱

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Contested Deep Pasts @ Sidestone Press

This book offers the first in-depth analysis of French-Anglophone research conflicts in Palaeolithic archaeology. By carefully examining a range of case studies and discursive contexts, the author sho...

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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft @dfg.de · Jul 3

Jetzt online: Der neue DFG-Jahresbericht. Er bildet statistische Kennzahlen zum #Förderhandeln 2024 ab, inkl. Rückschau auf die vorherigen 4 Jahre. 1/2

Zum Download 📑https://www.dfg.de/resource/blob/359464/69bb27de4890eef0491daeb3d05f9522/dfg-jb2024-data.pdf

Zahlen zur DFG-Förderung 2024
3,9 Milliarden € Fördervolumen
31.000 laufende Projekte
16.400 Gutachter*innen
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Manuel Will @manuelwill.bsky.social · Jul 1

Had a similar thought and would like to here a genetics perspective on this!

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Dr Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social · Jun 30

"Do Recent DNA Studies Refute a 65 kya Arrival of Humans in Sahul?" See comment by @elliescerri.bsky.social and myself here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Do Recent DNA Studies Refute a 65 kya Arrival of Humans in Sahul?

Click on the article title to read more.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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European Society for the Study of Human Evolution @eshesociety.bsky.social · Jun 26

In 2025, #ESHE elections for regular board members will be held again! If you are interested in standing for a board member, please send a short biography and a photograph to [email protected] no later than 20 July 2025!

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Manuel Will @manuelwill.bsky.social · Jun 25

Could you elaborate on what exactly was terrible (reviewer choice, review reports, timeline, editorial assessment)? Really curious!

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Manuel Will @manuelwill.bsky.social · Jun 24

I had a good personal experience, but know of many others you would share your sentiment!

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄️ @mu-peter.bsky.social · Jun 20

Major expansion in the human niche preceded out of Africa dispersal 🏺🧪
Emily Y. Hallett, @manuelwill.bsky.social, @elliescerri.bsky.social et al
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Found that this expansion was driven by humans increasing their use of diverse habitat types, from forests to arid deserts.

Map of dated archaeological sites in Africa.

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