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How Humans Really Evolved From Africa youtu.be/EeZpp4mxfNQ?is=HOIK… via @YouTube
Neanderthal–human baby-making was recent — and brief (from 2024) nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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Our two closest relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos, live on opposite sides of the Congo River. They split from each other about 1.5 million years ago. However, neither species can swim, and the Congo is 34 million years old.
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ALT Map of West and Central Africa showing the ranges of four chimpanzee subspecies and, in orange in the Congo Basin, the bonobo, south of the Congo River. Credit: Textbook Travel (after Luis Fernández García, Alphathon and Eric Gaba), CC BY-SA 4.0, via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Range_of_the_4_chimp_subspecies_and_bonobo.jpg
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THROWBACK THURSDAY!
Renowned fossil hunter Kamoya Kimeu (1938-2022) in East Turkana, ca. 1969, while on an early expedition organized by Richard Leakey to establish the extent of the region's fossil deposits.
Evolution of terrestrial anatomy revealed by a derived stem tetrapod nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Australia’s current wildfire crisis linked to colonial land-use change nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
Ecology, environment, and morphology: their relationships to carbon isotope variability in mammalian herbivores sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Retracing our ancestors’ first steps out of Africa. New fieldwork and dating methods are rewriting who first made stone and bone tools, and how our ancestors spread from Africa into Asia and Europe cordis.europa.eu/article/id/…
Tracing Neanderthal ancestry patterns through successive population expansions in Europe | Science Advances science.org/doi/full/10.1126…
Fragment of decorated reindeer metatarsal from La Madeleine, France. Engraved about 15,000 years ago @britishmuseum
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I've been using Twitter for 14 years, and I'm only just discovering that you can gain followers by sharing some really cool archaeology & history
The bison of Tuc d'Audoubert were carved over 15k years ago. Nothing on this site will last that long
Our modern human ancestors may have been, at least in part, responsible for the eventual downfall of other human species
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Evolutionary foundations of social identity
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What makes dinosaurs famous? science.org/content/article/…
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Mice bred for increased running distance evolve 3D shape differences in the hind limb skeleton but show limited plasticity in response to voluntary exercise anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wi…
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Modular adaptation of the ribcage in response to artificial selection for endurance running anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wi…
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Introduction to Royal Society whole volume on ‘From being to identity: analysis and synthesis of the self’ royalsocietypublishing.org/r…
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Global environmental genomics reveals vast uncultivated protist diversity and taxonomic blind spots nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
Giant statue of Roman emperor once stood in southern Scotland
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When Teeth Twist: Distinct Mechanisms and Patterns of Enamel Wear from Rotational Forces—A Preliminary Investigation
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