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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 noticed that the dear girl is out in the public again, and this time in association with a news story about a study on the skin colour changes of prehistoric Europeans over time. So here she is, Lola, the Danish birch pitch chewing gum girl.

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#FossilFriday 🏺🧪

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Origin of funerary practices has important implications Pluridisciplinary evidence for burial for the La Ferrassie 8 Neandertal child 🏺🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41... A detailed multidisciplinary approach is essential to advance understanding of Neanderthal behavior, including funerary practices.

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During MIS 3 a group of Neanderthals transported at least 15 marine fossils collected from the surrounding area, to Prado Vargas cave. Why? Were Neanderthals the First Collectors? First Evidence Recovered in Level 4 of the Prado Vargas Cave, Cornejo, Burgos and Spain 🏺🧪 www.mdpi.com/2571-550X/7/...

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Ancient DNA from people who lived in Europe between 1700 and 45,000 years ago suggests that 63 per cent of them had dark skin and 8 per cent had pale skin, with the rest somewhere in between. Inference of human pigmentation from ancient DNA by genotype likelihood 🏺🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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What Color Eyes, Hair, And Skin Did Neanderthals Have? We used to think they were redheads, but was that just a pigment of our imagination? 🏺🧪 www.iflscience.com/what-color-e... In reality, most traits are polygenetic, multiple genes working together in subtle and complicated ways.

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Semicircular canals shed light on bottleneck events in the evolution of the Neanderthal clade 🏺🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Argues there was a significant reduction in disparity after the start of Marine Isotope Stage 5 and this supports the hypothesis of a late bottleneck.

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The Last Neanderthals 🏺🧪 Tristan Hughes delves into the fate of the last Neanderthals and continues the Ice Age mini-series with Professor Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social from the Natural History Museum @nhm-london.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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10 Things That May Surprise You About Working On An Archaeological Dig 🏺🧪 www.thetravel.com/what-to-know... You Don’t Need A Degree In Archaeology Or History To Participate Most digs look for volunteers who are students, retirees, or members of the general public.

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3.18 million-year-old Lucy to make first ever visit to Europe 🧪 www.lemonde.fr/en/europe/ar... The Czech prime minister announced on Tuesday that the skeleton remains of the Australopithecus will go on display in Prague next August.

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👇 This... If you want to stop the MAGA madness... YOU and EVERYBODY are going to have to do something. And be LOUD about it!

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👇 You have agency! Want proof? Do one thing. One thing. Start with that. Do it.

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👉 This is research about health. 🧪 Everybody's health, including yours. Your health depends on you doing something about this. Today! Now!

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#ScienceIsPeople 🧪 People working hard but loving it!

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✊ #Resist

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🔆Good morning! People have the means to slow down or even stop the abuse of power. You, me, everybody... Together we can resist. Join The Resistance!

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Fuck this Nazi... and his indoor sunglasses too.

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🔆 Today is Anthropology Day! 🏺🧪 February 20, 2025 The primary goal of Anthropology Day, #AnthroDay is to share the wonders of anthropology with the world around us. americananthro.org/events/anthr... Stay tuned, tomorrow is #FossilFriday when I'll be posting more about anthropology.

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A moment of grace and beauty to cleanse your timeline... brought to you by #Science ;-) Corolla spectabilis 🧪 (A species of Sea Butterfly)

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📣 Stand Up for Science on March 7th 🧪 #standupforscience2025

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#ScienceIsPeople 🧪 👇 Smart, dedicated people.

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#ScienceIsPeople 🧪 All people are touched by this, and we are all in this together!

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#ScienceIsPeople 🧪 "Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." - Helen Keller

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#ScienceIsPeople 🧪

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#ScienceIsPeople 🧪 This isn't about "government efficiency"... Even the best people have been indiscriminately terminated.

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#ScienceIsPeople 🧪 People that still care, even after they're gone.

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👇 Know that this isn't the end of the cuts... #ScienceIsPeople 🧪

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#ScienceIsPeople 🧪 👇 Thread

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#ScienceIsPeople 🧪

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#ScienceIsPeople 🧪 👇 Thread

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Science is a part of our lives. 🧪 But science doesn't do itself. Science is done by people. Cutting science research isn't just cutting numbers... It's cutting people. Science is people. To bring this to your attention, I'll be posting and reposting some of their voices. Listen and take action.

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👉 No kings, no tyrants. Not ever. "Any man who must say I am the king is no true king." - Tywin Lannister

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👇This. Everyone should be doing this.👏 Remember - Peaceful civil disobedience, and no kings, no tyrants. Not ever.

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🔆 Good morning! Days of future past? "But if the laws are to be so trampled upon with impunity, and a minority is to dictate to the majority, there is an end put at one stroke to republican government, and nothing but anarchy and confusion is to be expected thereafter..." George Washington 1836

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