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So many connections between star knowledge and ancient societies. Some have been embodied in monuments like Stonehenge, but the knowledge of they sky and its relation to natural and social cycles is vastly older. www.johnhawks.net/p/when-did-o...

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If you ever wanted to explore history of the Denisovans but didn't know where to start, this is for you. view.genially.com/68097ef2bb6b...

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Two pieces of hominin skull sucked up and spit out of a giant undersea vacuum cleaner, with thousands of fragments of animal bones that were once buried in the course of the Solo River. Remarkable discovery from hard work and years of survey. www.johnhawks.net/p/more-homin...

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The classic rendering of the obstetric dilemma hypothesis is that the size & shape of the human pelvis has been constrained by its restructuring for bipedal locomotion, making birth difficult. Nice discussion on the topic with CU Denver's Dr. Anna Warrener. #paleoanthropology #humanevolution

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In Fongoli news, there have been a couple of big rains - enough to clean out & fill Sakoto pool, one of the chimps’ favorite soaking spots!

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Fascinating - how encounters with feminist conscious raising groups & reading feminist texts changed primatology, showing how male bias worked in developing now outmoded evolutionary ideas like ‘man the hunter’ and ‘the military model of primate behaviour’! www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

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I discuss the Harbin cranium (probably the most complete Denisovan fossil found so far) youtu.be/VxRPbwc-Izc?...

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Sometimes fossils are not as striking or immediately impressive to the eye. But even poorly preserved fossils can be critically important based on their context. This “bone mush” appears to be a hominin from a new area at Malapa and if so is likely an indication of big discoveries to come!

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So I guess Jurassic Park in real life would be billions in VC investment and years of press releases followed by a tank containing five deformed iguanas

submitted 59 days ago • 18 comments

For #FossilFriday an image of a 2 million year old #hominin humerus freed from the rock just today so you are among the first humans in the world to see it! Prepared by Zandile Ndaba or "Ma Zandi" the work on this skeleton has involved her for years. We owe her and our other preparators a great deal

submitted 63 days ago • 3 comments

#FossilFriday The Dali cranium, about 260,000 years old. Probably Homo longi and therefore probably a Denisovan…

submitted 69 days ago • 2 comments

A scientifically illiterate fascist who is defunding science, and FRS. The toadying lickspittles who championed this marketing creep should lose their privileges. What did they want? To brownnose a big boy under the misapprehension that standing near the powerful gifts them power.

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New substack, on @trevorcousins.bsky.social and @aylwyn-scally.bsky.social's brilliant new paper on the origin of Homo sapiens. arutherford.substack.com/p/human-evol...

submitted 79 days ago • 6 comments

Interesting overview of a couple of studies by Liran Samuni on the Taï chimpanzees. Play and intergroup encounters ... www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...

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Not much has changed since I wrote my take on mammoth cloning back in 2017: “What is needed is some basic respect for the facts, and better investigative questions.” medium.johnhawks.net/how-mammoth-...

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Amidst all the horrible news at the moment, we can promise something big and exciting about human origins dropping next wednesday 26th at 5pm CET. Watch this space! :)

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I just want to say what should be obvious here: we're supposed to have 3 co-EQUAL branches of govt to check each other. I grew up with very powerful House speakers and senate leaders who defended the powers of their branch. Now we have the opposite of "Profiles in Courage". Lindsey Graham anyone?

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The story of a fascinating ancient skull and the scientist who resorted to hiding it in his bedroom to keep it from being studied by Nazi anthropologists johnhawks.net/weblog/a-loo...

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Very excited to be part of this cool study. Part of a growing body of evidence that substantial behavioural plasticity emerged well before Homo sapiens. The genus Homo was born to roam! www.nature.com/articles/s43...

submitted 140 days ago • 3 comments

This is the best exploration I've seen of the species concept. youtu.be/XFvUlxj1axU?...

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