Kevin Hatala
@kevinhatala.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Biology | human evolution, locomotion, anatomy
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Join us next week on Nov 19th for a virtual workshop on writing op-eds 📝 Register here: burkinc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
AABA/AAAG folks! Want to reach more people with your awesome science 👩🔬👨🏿🏫💀🧬🦍? Check out this upcoming writing workshop by @bioanth.org on Nov 19🗓️ ! A great way to prepare for this year's Politzer Prize op-ed style competition 👩🏿💻 📝(bioanth.org/about/willia...) Register here: shorturl.at/7cf9J
November 11, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Join us next week on Nov 19th for a virtual workshop on writing op-eds 📝 Register here: burkinc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Paranthropus boisei is a human fossil cousin w/ giant jaws and teeth that lived in East Africa ~2.6 to 1.3 million years ago. Whether it could make & use tools has been a paleoanthropological mystery since the 1960s. Our new paper describes the first firmly associated hand and foot. 1/
New fossils reveal the hand of Paranthropus boisei - Nature
Analyses of newly discovered hand and foot bones of a Paranthropus boisei specimen provide insight into possible tool use and other palaeobiology characteristics among Plio-Pleistocene hominin species...
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October 15, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Paranthropus boisei is a human fossil cousin w/ giant jaws and teeth that lived in East Africa ~2.6 to 1.3 million years ago. Whether it could make & use tools has been a paleoanthropological mystery since the 1960s. Our new paper describes the first firmly associated hand and foot. 1/
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Do you want to support students attending #AABA2026? Get your #AABA2026 t-shirt or hoodie! Proceeds will fund our various student programs
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Buy AABA 2026 Denver, CO Meeting Swag merchandise that supports American Association Of Physical Anthropologists. Featuring Heather Carolina Blue Premium Unisex Tees, professionally printed in the USA...
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September 15, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Do you want to support students attending #AABA2026? Get your #AABA2026 t-shirt or hoodie! Proceeds will fund our various student programs
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Interested in becoming more involved in AABA? The deadline for nominations for President-Elect, Vice President, and Secretary are due October 15! bioanth.org/95th-annual-...
Call for Executive Committee Nominations (Deadline: October 15, 2025) - AABA
Executive Committee Positions: The Executive Committee manages the affairs of the association. The committee meets in person once a year, immediately before the Annual Meeting, and virtually […]
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September 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Interested in becoming more involved in AABA? The deadline for nominations for President-Elect, Vice President, and Secretary are due October 15! bioanth.org/95th-annual-...
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📌 Students attending #AABA2026: we've made some changes to simplify the submission process for Student Presentation Awards. Your award application is now due October 15, 2025, the same day as abstracts are due.
📖 Read about it here: bioanth.org/about/studen...
📖 Read about it here: bioanth.org/about/studen...
Student Presentation Awards - AABA
The AABA has long recognized the important contributions made to our discipline by students. Their work reflects the promise and future of our field. Conferring […]
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September 15, 2025 at 9:39 PM
📌 Students attending #AABA2026: we've made some changes to simplify the submission process for Student Presentation Awards. Your award application is now due October 15, 2025, the same day as abstracts are due.
📖 Read about it here: bioanth.org/about/studen...
📖 Read about it here: bioanth.org/about/studen...
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📣 The abstract portal for #AABA2026 in Denver is open! Please read the abstract guidelines carefully before submitting your abstract. Submissions are due by October 15, 2025. bioanth.org/95th-annual-...
September 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
📣 The abstract portal for #AABA2026 in Denver is open! Please read the abstract guidelines carefully before submitting your abstract. Submissions are due by October 15, 2025. bioanth.org/95th-annual-...
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New essay about our collaborative deep history work in Tanzania!
Thanks to @sapiens.org for inviting me to contribute & for editorial support
Fidelis Masao, Husna Mashaka, Sam Porter, & many more contribute to this work. Thanks @leakeyfoundation.org @asubeinghuman.bsky.social & @asuiho.bsky.social
Thanks to @sapiens.org for inviting me to contribute & for editorial support
Fidelis Masao, Husna Mashaka, Sam Porter, & many more contribute to this work. Thanks @leakeyfoundation.org @asubeinghuman.bsky.social & @asuiho.bsky.social
“To truly safeguard and understand human origins in this region, we need a new model—one grounded in collaboration, mutual respect, and shared stewardship.”
Read more: www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...
Read more: www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...
September 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
New essay about our collaborative deep history work in Tanzania!
Thanks to @sapiens.org for inviting me to contribute & for editorial support
Fidelis Masao, Husna Mashaka, Sam Porter, & many more contribute to this work. Thanks @leakeyfoundation.org @asubeinghuman.bsky.social & @asuiho.bsky.social
Thanks to @sapiens.org for inviting me to contribute & for editorial support
Fidelis Masao, Husna Mashaka, Sam Porter, & many more contribute to this work. Thanks @leakeyfoundation.org @asubeinghuman.bsky.social & @asuiho.bsky.social
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I'm recruiting a PhD student to join the lab at @gtsciences.bsky.social in Fall 2026! Broad taxonomic and topical freedom under the umbrella of vertebrate joint form and function. Information here: www.manafzadeh.com – please share 🦴🩻
✨Some news✨: after finishing my postdoc, I’ll be starting my lab as an Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech. Join us in Atlanta to study how joints work and where they come from!
September 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I'm recruiting a PhD student to join the lab at @gtsciences.bsky.social in Fall 2026! Broad taxonomic and topical freedom under the umbrella of vertebrate joint form and function. Information here: www.manafzadeh.com – please share 🦴🩻
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Breaking the barriers! Important new paper by Daniel Green and others discovering 18 million years of proteins of East African mammals!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Eighteen million years of diverse enamel proteomes from the East African Rift - Nature
The isolation of dental proteins from fossils deposited 1.5 million to 18 million years ago in the Turkana Basin in Kenya, a tropical region, demonstrate the promise of dental enamel for palaeoproteom...
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July 10, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Breaking the barriers! Important new paper by Daniel Green and others discovering 18 million years of proteins of East African mammals!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Hello,
Our paper on enamel proteins from Paranthropus robustus has finally been peer reviewed, please have a read here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Paranthropus robustus has been puzzling scientists since its discovery in 1938 in South Africa, where a high number of fossils have been found.
Our paper on enamel proteins from Paranthropus robustus has finally been peer reviewed, please have a read here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Paranthropus robustus has been puzzling scientists since its discovery in 1938 in South Africa, where a high number of fossils have been found.
Enamel proteins reveal biological sex and genetic variability in southern African Paranthropus
Paranthropus robustus is a morphologically well-documented Early Pleistocene hominin species from southern Africa with no genetic evidence reported so far. In this work, we describe the mass spectrome...
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May 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Hello,
Our paper on enamel proteins from Paranthropus robustus has finally been peer reviewed, please have a read here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Paranthropus robustus has been puzzling scientists since its discovery in 1938 in South Africa, where a high number of fossils have been found.
Our paper on enamel proteins from Paranthropus robustus has finally been peer reviewed, please have a read here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Paranthropus robustus has been puzzling scientists since its discovery in 1938 in South Africa, where a high number of fossils have been found.
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I am offering two 4-year PhD positions (fully funded) and a 57 month combined post-doc / project manager position as part of my NWO-Vici grant, which starts in September.
May 10, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I am offering two 4-year PhD positions (fully funded) and a 57 month combined post-doc / project manager position as part of my NWO-Vici grant, which starts in September.
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Unearthing the Past: The New Turkana Footprints with Dr. Kevin Hatala
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Unearthing the Past: The New Turkana Footprints with Dr. Kevin Hatala
YouTube video by World of Paleoanthropology
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April 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Unearthing the Past: The New Turkana Footprints with Dr. Kevin Hatala
youtu.be/vX-b4L3cxW0 @kevinhatala.bsky.social
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Really happy to see this paper out, using field biomechanics we show that wild chimpanzees don't just randomly select plants materials for termite fishing tools – they use a little “folk physics” choosing materials with specific properties! Study in iScience www.cell.com/iscience/ful.... 1/5
Engineering skills in the manufacture of tools by wild chimpanzees
Biological sciences; Zoology; Evolutionary biology
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March 25, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Really happy to see this paper out, using field biomechanics we show that wild chimpanzees don't just randomly select plants materials for termite fishing tools – they use a little “folk physics” choosing materials with specific properties! Study in iScience www.cell.com/iscience/ful.... 1/5
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Want to move to Spain?
Do you study craniodental evolution in human and non-human primate evolution?
Looking for postdoc position?
Interested in working with my @Tied2Teeth group here @CENIEH???
Deadline to apply: 28 March 2025
www.cenieh.es/en/about-cen...
Do you study craniodental evolution in human and non-human primate evolution?
Looking for postdoc position?
Interested in working with my @Tied2Teeth group here @CENIEH???
Deadline to apply: 28 March 2025
www.cenieh.es/en/about-cen...
Postdoctoral Researcher (R2) of ERC-2021-ADG TIED2TEETH Project | CENIEH
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March 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Want to move to Spain?
Do you study craniodental evolution in human and non-human primate evolution?
Looking for postdoc position?
Interested in working with my @Tied2Teeth group here @CENIEH???
Deadline to apply: 28 March 2025
www.cenieh.es/en/about-cen...
Do you study craniodental evolution in human and non-human primate evolution?
Looking for postdoc position?
Interested in working with my @Tied2Teeth group here @CENIEH???
Deadline to apply: 28 March 2025
www.cenieh.es/en/about-cen...
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🎊 Congratulations to the ten #AABA2025 student prize winners and honorable mentions! bioanth.org/about/studen...
March 19, 2025 at 1:05 AM
🎊 Congratulations to the ten #AABA2025 student prize winners and honorable mentions! bioanth.org/about/studen...
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Our new paper 🥲 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The earliest human face of Western Europe - Nature
A Homo aff. erectus individual dated to 1.4 million to 1.1 million years ago found at Sima del Elefante (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain) does not display the modern-human-like aspect of Homo antecess...
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March 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Our new paper 🥲 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🥁 Congratulations to the 76 awardees of the 2025 William S. Pollitzer Student Travel Award! The Pollitzer Student Travel Awards are designed to help students defray the costs of attending the AABA meetings. bioanth.org/about/willia... #AABA2025
William S. Pollitzer Student Travel Award - AABA
The Pollitzer Student Travel Awards are designed to help students defray the costs of attending the AABA meetings. The awards are named in honor of […]
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March 7, 2025 at 3:57 AM
🥁 Congratulations to the 76 awardees of the 2025 William S. Pollitzer Student Travel Award! The Pollitzer Student Travel Awards are designed to help students defray the costs of attending the AABA meetings. bioanth.org/about/willia... #AABA2025
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"Could You Survive Living With Other Hominin Species?" asks PBS Eons. youtu.be/c4E6chPj-IQ?... #humanevolution
Could You Survive Living With Other Hominin Species?
YouTube video by PBS Eons
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March 9, 2025 at 4:29 AM
"Could You Survive Living With Other Hominin Species?" asks PBS Eons. youtu.be/c4E6chPj-IQ?... #humanevolution
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Get excited for #AABA2025 in Baltimore next week! Download the AABA 2025 app and start planning your meeting www.xcdsystem.com/mobile/index...
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March 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Get excited for #AABA2025 in Baltimore next week! Download the AABA 2025 app and start planning your meeting www.xcdsystem.com/mobile/index...
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Ever wondered what happens to your grant proposal once you submit it? Join a hands-on “mock review” workshop to learn about review processes at The Leakey Foundation and the Wenner-Gren Foundation. March 12 at #AABA2025. Registration is limited so act fast! @bioanth.org bit.ly/4havY78
AABA Workshop in Baltimore: What happens to my grant proposal? Peek into the process through mock review!
This workshop introduces early career scholars to the grant review process through mock review exercises with experienced panelists and representatives from Leakey and Wenner-Gren.
Date and Time: Marc...
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March 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Ever wondered what happens to your grant proposal once you submit it? Join a hands-on “mock review” workshop to learn about review processes at The Leakey Foundation and the Wenner-Gren Foundation. March 12 at #AABA2025. Registration is limited so act fast! @bioanth.org bit.ly/4havY78
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🚨New article🚨Our #research on #elephant🐘and #strontium #isotopes in #teeth🦷is published with
@commsbio.bsky.social
We show how Sr is recorded in teeth and how we use such records to help reconstruct migration. @kevinuno.bsky.social @kpodkovyroff.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...
@commsbio.bsky.social
We show how Sr is recorded in teeth and how we use such records to help reconstruct migration. @kevinuno.bsky.social @kpodkovyroff.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Strontium isotope mapping of elephant enamel supports an integrated microsampling-modeling workflow to reconstruct herbivore migrations - Communications Biology
Comparisons of 87Sr/86Sr data from the tusk and molar enamel of a zoo elephant suggest that a microsampling-modeling workflow is the best practice strategy for geospatial reconstructions of seasonal m...
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February 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
🚨New article🚨Our #research on #elephant🐘and #strontium #isotopes in #teeth🦷is published with
@commsbio.bsky.social
We show how Sr is recorded in teeth and how we use such records to help reconstruct migration. @kevinuno.bsky.social @kpodkovyroff.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...
@commsbio.bsky.social
We show how Sr is recorded in teeth and how we use such records to help reconstruct migration. @kevinuno.bsky.social @kpodkovyroff.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Groundbreaking research
on Homo erectus
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
#OldupaiGorge
BED III:
Using sedimentology, geochemistry, Ar/Ar dating, biome simulations, fire history, paleobotany, fauna, and lithics, we reveal how hominins navigated extreme environments in northern Tanzania 1 Ma
on Homo erectus
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
#OldupaiGorge
BED III:
Using sedimentology, geochemistry, Ar/Ar dating, biome simulations, fire history, paleobotany, fauna, and lithics, we reveal how hominins navigated extreme environments in northern Tanzania 1 Ma
January 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Groundbreaking research
on Homo erectus
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
#OldupaiGorge
BED III:
Using sedimentology, geochemistry, Ar/Ar dating, biome simulations, fire history, paleobotany, fauna, and lithics, we reveal how hominins navigated extreme environments in northern Tanzania 1 Ma
on Homo erectus
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
#OldupaiGorge
BED III:
Using sedimentology, geochemistry, Ar/Ar dating, biome simulations, fire history, paleobotany, fauna, and lithics, we reveal how hominins navigated extreme environments in northern Tanzania 1 Ma
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Congratulations to the 2025 AABA Award Winners! This year we honor Dr. Kay Behrensmeyer, Dr. Lorena Madrigal, and Dr. Sang-Hee Lee. Thank you for your contributions to biological anthropology! #AABA2025
January 15, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Congratulations to the 2025 AABA Award Winners! This year we honor Dr. Kay Behrensmeyer, Dr. Lorena Madrigal, and Dr. Sang-Hee Lee. Thank you for your contributions to biological anthropology! #AABA2025
Important update for anyone with a manuscript in the JHE editorial pipeline. Thanks for sharing!
JHE Update: the previous JHE Editorial Board no longer has access to the editorial management system. Despite the previous editors and many other associate editors volunteering to finish handling any papers already in our pipeline, we have been cut-off without any notice. 1/2
January 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Important update for anyone with a manuscript in the JHE editorial pipeline. Thanks for sharing!