The Inquisitive Biologist1d ago

This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- I found a second-hand copy of Voyage of the Basilisk: A Memoir by Lady Trent, written by Marie Brennan (@swan_tower) and published by Tor Books. This is book 3 in a #Fantasy series I have been eyeing up for some time now. I will not lie that the striking covers grabbed my attention.
- Taschen had a sale some time ago, allowing me to finally buy a volume I have long coveted: the collected works of #HRGiger. When it comes to their art collections, I always end up choosing their XXL versions. Expensive? Yes. But it's a "go big or go home" choice for me.
- A lovely birthday gift from a family member: the latest book by the incomparable Dutch biologist Midas Dekkers, Het Menselijk Tekort, published by Atlas Contact.

#Books #Bookstodon #Dragons #HumanEvolution #Anthropology #Scicomm @bookstodon

Anthropology.net2d ago
Machine learning classifies primate diets from 3D tooth surface textures better than traditional discriminant analysis, a key methodological step toward reconstructing what early hominins were eating. #Paleoanthropology #DentalMicrowear #HumanEvolution https://www.anthropology.net/p/what-enamel-remembers-machine-learning
What Enamel Remembers: Machine Learning and 3D Dental Microwear in African Primates

A new machine learning pipeline classifies primate diets from 3D tooth surface texture and outperforms the standard analytical approaches the field has long relied on.

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Anthropology.net5d ago
New research in the Southern Caucasus: small Pleistocene populations weren’t isolated — they stayed connected through long-distance mobility, obsidian exchange, and shared technology. Resilience was social, not just ecological. #Paleolithic #HumanEvolution #Archaeology https://www.anthropology.net/p/what-kept-small-populations-alive
What Kept Small Populations Alive in the Pleistocene Southern Caucasus

New research from the Armenian Highlands reframes prehistoric resilience — not as a story of environmental toughness, but of social connection.

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Anthropology.net5d ago
Hominin body size didn’t just steadily climb. New PNAS analysis finds a slow background trend across all hominins, then a marked jump in later Homo. Some lineages stayed small. #paleoanthropology #humanevolution #homininevolution https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-body-size-jump-that-wasnt-gradual
The Body Size Jump That Wasn’t Gradual

A new analysis of 386 hominin fossils finds the biggest shift in body mass came late, fast, and not across the board.

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Show threadDJ Bonsai6d ago

@heiseonline @mho Herrje, jetzt habe ich gescrollt und gescrollt in der Hoffnung, Ihr habt den Gag erklärt.

Jaja, #Lucy, #Australopithecus und so.

Aber wer hat die Knochen von Lucy damals ausgebuddelt und Lucy Lucy genannt? Hättet Ihr das nicht auch noch dazuschreiben können?

#Humanevolution #Biologie #LucyInTheSkyWithDiamonds

The Inquisitive BiologistJun 20

This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- The last of the books from the NHBS January sale: Michael Ruse's The #Philosophy of Human #Evolution, published by Cambridge University Press
- A lovely version of Humphrey Carpenter's highly praised J. R. R. #Tolkien: A Biography, published by HarperCollins
- A second-hand copy of Ant Ecology, published by Oxford University Press

#HumanEvolution #Anthropology #Fantasy #LOTR #LordOfTheRings #Myrmecology #Ecology #Insects #Entomology #Books #Bookstodon #Scicomm @bookstodon

Harvati lab at Uni TübingenJun 19
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
Harvati lab at Uni TübingenJun 19
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! 😀
#humanevolution
Harvati lab at Uni TübingenJun 19
Our FIRSTSTEPS workshop continued with faunal and microfaunal analyses, paleoproteomics and human osteological analyses focusing on the record of the Apidima caves 😀
#humanevolution
Harvati lab at Uni TübingenJun 19
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 ✨
#humanevolution