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Palaeoanthropologist at the Natural History Museum London. Posts are my own, and when I repost or like, it does not signify I necessarily agree with all content https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/departments-and-staff/staff-directory/chris-stringer.html
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[a few glitches though e.g. Cheddar Man and most of that European population were pretty certainly blue-eyed..] www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Scientists discover one simple rule that explains all life on Earth www.earth.com/news/scienti...

A general rule on the organization of biodiversity in Earth’s biogeographical regions www.nature.com/articles/s41...

‘Major study points to evolved psychology behind support for strongmen’ www.psypost.org/major-study-...

Rise of the king: Gondwanan origins and evolution of megaraptoran dinosaurs royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

South Arabia’s prehistoric monument landscape shows social resilience to climate change doi.org/10.1371/jour...

The newly uncovered Madura Strait fossil assemblage and its role in Pleistocene hominin dispersals in Southeast Asia www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

How the brain turns an experience into an emotion Conserved brain-wide emergence of emotional response from sensory experience in humans and mice 🏺🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... After stimulus-specific info is rapidly disseminated, a slower (emotional) activation of brainwide networks occurs

New evidence from Mindoro, Philippines, shows humans mastered seafaring 35,000 years ago—catching sharks, crafting shell tools, and linking distant islands. A forgotten maritime chapter in human evolution. #Archaeology #Prehistory #MaritimeAsia

The red nucleus, coordinates limb movement for locomotion in quadrupedal animals. In humans, its pattern of anatomical connectivity differs. The human brainstem’s red nucleus was upgraded to support goal-directed action 🏺🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Just out! we challenge the long-standing tradition of defining Upper Paleolithic cultures primarily through stone tool artefacts. Instead, we turn to personal ornaments to explore cultural identities during the past shorturl.at/8mxKe @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social

The Manchester Museum is voted the European Museum of the Year 2025 www.timeout.com/uk/news/its-...

My comments on new finds and new dating for Jebel Irhoud (2017)

Ancient DNA reveals a two-clanned matrilineal community in Neolithic China www.nature.com/articles/s41...

‘Through the Innovation Fellowships, our researchers in the humanities and social sciences are supported to create new and deeper links beyond academia, enabling knowledge mobilisation and translation, as well as individual skill development’ email.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/cr/AQimihMQq...

#FossilFriday A range of crania from Africa and Israel assigned to early H. sapiens. From The origin and evolution of Homo sapiens (2016) royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Funded PhD on natural and cultural heritage on islands! www.mic.ul.ie/sites/defaul...

Homo sapiens – us – are the only surviving human species. Chris Stringer joins us to discuss why – and what happened to those who came before us. www.podbean.com/ep/pb-vfsxd-...

Human Genome Recovered From 5,700-Year-Old Chewing Gum. The piece of Birch tar, found in Denmark, also contained the mouth microbes of its ancient chewer, as well as remnants of food to reveal what she ate (2019) www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

How Today’s Human Brain Became so Uniquely Human www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Unraveling Human Genetic Evolution Mysteries www.miragenews.com/unraveling-h...

‘Through the Innovation Fellowships, our researchers in the humanities and social sciences are supported to create new and deeper links beyond academia, enabling knowledge mobilisation and translation, as well as individual skill development’ email.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/cr/AQimihMQq...

Ancient DNA reveals a two-clanned matrilineal community in Neolithic China www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My comments on new finds and new dating for Jebel Irhoud (2017)

The Manchester Museum is voted the European Museum of the Year 2025 www.timeout.com/uk/news/its-...

Unraveling Human Genetic Evolution Mysteries www.miragenews.com/unraveling-h...

How Today’s Human Brain Became so Uniquely Human www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Human Genome Recovered From 5,700-Year-Old Chewing Gum. The piece of Birch tar, found in Denmark, also contained the mouth microbes of its ancient chewer, as well as remnants of food to reveal what she ate (2019) www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

Homo sapiens – us – are the only surviving human species. Chris Stringer joins us to discuss why – and what happened to those who came before us. www.podbean.com/ep/pb-vfsxd-...

IFLScience The Big Questions: Investigating Some Of The Biggest Scientific Mysteries in Human Evolution www.iflscience.com/iflscience-t...

Revisiting the Anatomy of the Florisbad Hominin Cranium: Visualization of New Internal Features and Observations on Its Supposed Pathologies paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...

Deep time and the revenant In enigmatic burials, crafted to bind the bodies within, we can see how truly ancient our fears of the undead must be aeon.co/essays/how-a...

Slow it down: evolution of human metabolism over two million years: Historical Biology: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

An empirically-based scenario for the evolution of cultural transmission in the human lineage during the last 3.3 million years journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

How did humans evolve such rotten genetics? theconversation.com/how-did-huma...

Multivariate analyses of Aurignacian and Gravettian personal ornaments support cultural continuity in the Early Upper Palaeolithic journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Proposed changes to human remains law could have ‘unintended consequences’ www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...

Ancient DNA analysis reveals regional migration patterns and local interactions in coastal Papua New Guinea phys.org/news/2025-06...

The impact of human dispersals and local interactions on the genetic diversity of coastal Papua New Guinea over the past 2,500 years www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How did humans evolve such rotten genetics? theconversation.com/how-did-huma...

An empirically-based scenario for the evolution of cultural transmission in the human lineage during the last 3.3 million years journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Our Island Legacies conference going very well in Valletta.

Tomorrow, my team starts a new project at this great cave site, Arma delle Manie (Liguria, Italy). We're focusing this season on contextualizing the final Mousterian (Neanderthal) levels first excavated in the 60s. Watch this space for updates over the next few weeks! 🦣🏺

"It's a Yes or No Question"

🏺 Say? Weren’t you the guy wishing for an interactive app allowing you to explore all published ancient human genomes from Britain and Ireland? Well, thanks to the COMMIOS, now there is.

Humans take over twice as long to heal wounds as other mammals english.elpais.com/science-tech...

Early Humans Started Smoking Meat Million Years Ago scienceblog.com/early-humans...

Roman Massacre Debunked: New Findings Rewrite Maiden Castle’s Bloody Past scitechdaily.com/roman-massac...

Revisiting the Anatomy of the Florisbad Hominin Cranium: Visualization of New Internal Features and Observations on Its Supposed Pathologies paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...

Slow it down: evolution of human metabolism over two million years: Historical Biology: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....