The final session took us to the Italian and Greek records and their connections. Wonderful to see everything coming together and the progress the team has made over the last four years 👏
Thank you to all the team members and collaborators who presented their work! #humanevolution

The afternoon session started with some in-depth comparative analysis of human fossils from Greece and the Balkans, one of the main objectives of FIRSTSTEPS. So nice to see this work slowly coming to fruition! 😀
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Our FIRSTSTEPS workshop continued with faunal and microfaunal analyses, paleoproteomics and human osteological analyses focusing on the record of the Apidima caves 😀
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The first session of the ERC project FIRSTSTEPS workshop was concluded on Wednesday, with exciting reports on the Apidima excavation, geomorphology and sediment micromorphology! Wonderful to see the results coming together ✨
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A 75,000-year-old Neanderthal fetus and two baby teeth from Bavaria reveal bone growth strikingly close to modern humans, plus what may be the earliest known case of a metabolic bone disorder in a non-sapiens hominin. #Neanderthals #Paleoanthropology #HumanEvolution https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-bones-of-an-unborn-neanderthal

3 Distinct Denisovan Groups Left A Genetic Legacy In Modern Southeast Asians, Revealing Hidden Complexity In How They Interacted With Human Ancestors 

Le Tan/Unsplash.com Prehistoric Homo sapiens seem to have had a real thing for Denisovans, and mated with this extinct human lineage pretty much everywhere they met. As a result, many present-day groups carry complex combinations of archaic genes, and new research shows that people in Southeast Asia possess DNA inherited from three distinct Denisovan populations........Continue reading... By: Benjamin Taub Source: IFLScience . Critics: The evolutionary history of primates can be traced […]

https://onlinemarketingscoops.com/2026/06/16/3-distinct-denisovan-groups-left-a-genetic-legacy/

Forensic anthropologists read sex from bone. But they’ve been using a binary that doesn’t reflect actual human variation. A new review asks why — and who pays the price. #ForensicAnthropology #SkeletalBiology #HumanEvolution #Gender #LGBTQ https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-skeletons-false-certainty

Japan averages 6h18m of sleep a night. France averages nearly 8h. Neither country is worse off for it. A ‘25 PNAS study + evolutionary anthropology suggest “enough sleep” isn’t a number, it’s a fit to where you live. 🧵 #SleepScience #Anthropology #HumanEvolution https://www.anthropology.net/p/japan-sleeps-six-hours-and-eighteen