Marta Mirazon Lahr
@martamlahr.bsky.social
Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology & Prehistory @CamBioanth @UCamArchaeology - interested in #science, #humanevolution, #prehistory, #palaeontology, #bones #lithics, #fossils, #climatechange, #museums, #collections
Can get distracted by much more 😍
Can get distracted by much more 😍
Today was the ceremony for new fellows at the #BritishAcademy - it was wonderful 🤩. I am thrilled and so grateful to the colleagues who nominated me, elected me, and the many colleagues, students, friends, our kids & family, & specially Rob 😍 who have so enriched my life and career ❤️
October 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Today was the ceremony for new fellows at the #BritishAcademy - it was wonderful 🤩. I am thrilled and so grateful to the colleagues who nominated me, elected me, and the many colleagues, students, friends, our kids & family, & specially Rob 😍 who have so enriched my life and career ❤️
#ESHE2025
Amelie Beaudet ‘A century after the Taung child: New insights into the evolutionary history of Australopithecus’
High var at Sterkfontein– signature of adaptive radiation? Brain sulci patterns, arteries, face shape, inner ear, verts– exploring morph disparity!!
Fantastic last talk ♥️!!!
Amelie Beaudet ‘A century after the Taung child: New insights into the evolutionary history of Australopithecus’
High var at Sterkfontein– signature of adaptive radiation? Brain sulci patterns, arteries, face shape, inner ear, verts– exploring morph disparity!!
Fantastic last talk ♥️!!!
September 27, 2025 at 3:13 PM
#ESHE2025
Amelie Beaudet ‘A century after the Taung child: New insights into the evolutionary history of Australopithecus’
High var at Sterkfontein– signature of adaptive radiation? Brain sulci patterns, arteries, face shape, inner ear, verts– exploring morph disparity!!
Fantastic last talk ♥️!!!
Amelie Beaudet ‘A century after the Taung child: New insights into the evolutionary history of Australopithecus’
High var at Sterkfontein– signature of adaptive radiation? Brain sulci patterns, arteries, face shape, inner ear, verts– exploring morph disparity!!
Fantastic last talk ♥️!!!
#ESHE2025
Phil Hopley ‘The age and environment of the Taung child’
Taung geol & spatial outlier within the Cradle
S Afr cave ages controversial!
Problem w U/Pb dating?
235U-207Pb dating: >accurateTaung at border of lake/pond env during Mid-Pliocene warm period 🥰
Phil Hopley ‘The age and environment of the Taung child’
Taung geol & spatial outlier within the Cradle
S Afr cave ages controversial!
Problem w U/Pb dating?
235U-207Pb dating: >accurate
September 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
#ESHE2025
Phil Hopley ‘The age and environment of the Taung child’
Taung geol & spatial outlier within the Cradle
S Afr cave ages controversial!
Problem w U/Pb dating?
235U-207Pb dating: >accurateTaung at border of lake/pond env during Mid-Pliocene warm period 🥰
Phil Hopley ‘The age and environment of the Taung child’
Taung geol & spatial outlier within the Cradle
S Afr cave ages controversial!
Problem w U/Pb dating?
235U-207Pb dating: >accurate
#ESHE2025
Clement Zanolli ‘Endostructural investigation of the Middle Pleistocene craniodental remains from Kabwe, Zambia’
Complex tax interpretation!
EDJ & inner ear GMMs: mix of primitive & derived traits! Some ~erectus, some unique
Taxonomy unresolved - unclear African MP evolutionary patterns☹!
Clement Zanolli ‘Endostructural investigation of the Middle Pleistocene craniodental remains from Kabwe, Zambia’
Complex tax interpretation!
EDJ & inner ear GMMs: mix of primitive & derived traits! Some ~erectus, some unique
Taxonomy unresolved - unclear African MP evolutionary patterns☹!
September 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
#ESHE2025
Clement Zanolli ‘Endostructural investigation of the Middle Pleistocene craniodental remains from Kabwe, Zambia’
Complex tax interpretation!
EDJ & inner ear GMMs: mix of primitive & derived traits! Some ~erectus, some unique
Taxonomy unresolved - unclear African MP evolutionary patterns☹!
Clement Zanolli ‘Endostructural investigation of the Middle Pleistocene craniodental remains from Kabwe, Zambia’
Complex tax interpretation!
EDJ & inner ear GMMs: mix of primitive & derived traits! Some ~erectus, some unique
Taxonomy unresolved - unclear African MP evolutionary patterns☹!
#ESHE2025
Martin Haeusler ‘Statistical shape modelling (SSM) reveals significant taxonomic variability in early Pleistocene hominin pelves from South Africa’
Diversity at Sterkfontein🤩!
GMM & metaspecies shape modelling: Sts 14 & StW 431 prob taxonomically diff
StW 573: what is preserved is v diff!
Martin Haeusler ‘Statistical shape modelling (SSM) reveals significant taxonomic variability in early Pleistocene hominin pelves from South Africa’
Diversity at Sterkfontein🤩!
GMM & metaspecies shape modelling: Sts 14 & StW 431 prob taxonomically diff
StW 573: what is preserved is v diff!
September 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
#ESHE2025
Martin Haeusler ‘Statistical shape modelling (SSM) reveals significant taxonomic variability in early Pleistocene hominin pelves from South Africa’
Diversity at Sterkfontein🤩!
GMM & metaspecies shape modelling: Sts 14 & StW 431 prob taxonomically diff
StW 573: what is preserved is v diff!
Martin Haeusler ‘Statistical shape modelling (SSM) reveals significant taxonomic variability in early Pleistocene hominin pelves from South Africa’
Diversity at Sterkfontein🤩!
GMM & metaspecies shape modelling: Sts 14 & StW 431 prob taxonomically diff
StW 573: what is preserved is v diff!
#ESHE2025
Harold Berghuis ‘Madura Strait, the first subsea Homo erectus site in Sundaland (Indonesia)’
Underwater fossils 🌟!
Subsidence in Sundaland: key to biogeography. Submerged river valley-MIS6, w rich fossil record! hunting bovids?
H erectus: frontal & parietal frags– aff Java late erectus
😍
Harold Berghuis ‘Madura Strait, the first subsea Homo erectus site in Sundaland (Indonesia)’
Underwater fossils 🌟!
Subsidence in Sundaland: key to biogeography. Submerged river valley-MIS6, w rich fossil record! hunting bovids?
H erectus: frontal & parietal frags– aff Java late erectus
😍
September 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
#ESHE2025
Harold Berghuis ‘Madura Strait, the first subsea Homo erectus site in Sundaland (Indonesia)’
Underwater fossils 🌟!
Subsidence in Sundaland: key to biogeography. Submerged river valley-MIS6, w rich fossil record! hunting bovids?
H erectus: frontal & parietal frags– aff Java late erectus
😍
Harold Berghuis ‘Madura Strait, the first subsea Homo erectus site in Sundaland (Indonesia)’
Underwater fossils 🌟!
Subsidence in Sundaland: key to biogeography. Submerged river valley-MIS6, w rich fossil record! hunting bovids?
H erectus: frontal & parietal frags– aff Java late erectus
😍
#ESHE2025
Elizabeth Veatch ‘Behavioural complexity in Homo floresiensis reconsidered’
Did H floresiensis hunt & use fire? NO!
Tapho– Komodo Dragon prey bones fr Atlanta!
3D study of 3200 bones w marks fr Liang Bua: most match Komodo Dragons; a few actual c/m - scavenging.
🔥? ~10K rat bones 😳… NONE
Elizabeth Veatch ‘Behavioural complexity in Homo floresiensis reconsidered’
Did H floresiensis hunt & use fire? NO!
Tapho– Komodo Dragon prey bones fr Atlanta!
3D study of 3200 bones w marks fr Liang Bua: most match Komodo Dragons; a few actual c/m - scavenging.
🔥? ~10K rat bones 😳… NONE
September 27, 2025 at 1:08 PM
#ESHE2025
Elizabeth Veatch ‘Behavioural complexity in Homo floresiensis reconsidered’
Did H floresiensis hunt & use fire? NO!
Tapho– Komodo Dragon prey bones fr Atlanta!
3D study of 3200 bones w marks fr Liang Bua: most match Komodo Dragons; a few actual c/m - scavenging.
🔥? ~10K rat bones 😳… NONE
Elizabeth Veatch ‘Behavioural complexity in Homo floresiensis reconsidered’
Did H floresiensis hunt & use fire? NO!
Tapho– Komodo Dragon prey bones fr Atlanta!
3D study of 3200 bones w marks fr Liang Bua: most match Komodo Dragons; a few actual c/m - scavenging.
🔥? ~10K rat bones 😳… NONE
#ESHE2025
Julide Kubat ‘Combined paleoproteomics and morphological evidence reveal the evolutionary history of Meganthropus palaeojavanicus’
Very high div in Sangiran homs, but dental morph convergence w Pongo..
1st palaeoprots fr Sangiran 🤩! exclude Pongo ID.
Meganthropus EDJ morph aff to eHoms !
Julide Kubat ‘Combined paleoproteomics and morphological evidence reveal the evolutionary history of Meganthropus palaeojavanicus’
Very high div in Sangiran homs, but dental morph convergence w Pongo..
1st palaeoprots fr Sangiran 🤩! exclude Pongo ID.
Meganthropus EDJ morph aff to eHoms !
September 27, 2025 at 12:48 PM
#ESHE2025
Julide Kubat ‘Combined paleoproteomics and morphological evidence reveal the evolutionary history of Meganthropus palaeojavanicus’
Very high div in Sangiran homs, but dental morph convergence w Pongo..
1st palaeoprots fr Sangiran 🤩! exclude Pongo ID.
Meganthropus EDJ morph aff to eHoms !
Julide Kubat ‘Combined paleoproteomics and morphological evidence reveal the evolutionary history of Meganthropus palaeojavanicus’
Very high div in Sangiran homs, but dental morph convergence w Pongo..
1st palaeoprots fr Sangiran 🤩! exclude Pongo ID.
Meganthropus EDJ morph aff to eHoms !
#ESHE2025
Stephanie Peyregne ‘ A new Denisovan genome sheds light on the peopling of Asian and Oceania’
DNA: single rapid dispersal
Evidence of multiple/diff introgression events
Analyses of DEN3 & DEN25 reveal complex pop dynamics & interactions during sapiens dispersals 🤩!
Stephanie Peyregne ‘ A new Denisovan genome sheds light on the peopling of Asian and Oceania’
DNA: single rapid dispersal
Evidence of multiple/diff introgression events
Analyses of DEN3 & DEN25 reveal complex pop dynamics & interactions during sapiens dispersals 🤩!
September 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
#ESHE2025
Stephanie Peyregne ‘ A new Denisovan genome sheds light on the peopling of Asian and Oceania’
DNA: single rapid dispersal
Evidence of multiple/diff introgression events
Analyses of DEN3 & DEN25 reveal complex pop dynamics & interactions during sapiens dispersals 🤩!
Stephanie Peyregne ‘ A new Denisovan genome sheds light on the peopling of Asian and Oceania’
DNA: single rapid dispersal
Evidence of multiple/diff introgression events
Analyses of DEN3 & DEN25 reveal complex pop dynamics & interactions during sapiens dispersals 🤩!
#ESEHE2025
Mailys Richard ‘A revised chronology for the Middle Pleistocene sedimentary sequence of Florisbad, South Africa’
Prev fossil hom (eSapiens): OSL & ESR- 279-228 ka
NEW OSL, TT-OSL & pIRIR290: range of dates – most likely MIS6
But only if prov of cran in Unit M
Mailys Richard ‘A revised chronology for the Middle Pleistocene sedimentary sequence of Florisbad, South Africa’
Prev fossil hom (eSapiens): OSL & ESR- 279-228 ka
NEW OSL, TT-OSL & pIRIR290: range of dates – most likely MIS6
But only if prov of cran in Unit M
September 27, 2025 at 11:22 AM
#ESEHE2025
Mailys Richard ‘A revised chronology for the Middle Pleistocene sedimentary sequence of Florisbad, South Africa’
Prev fossil hom (eSapiens): OSL & ESR- 279-228 ka
NEW OSL, TT-OSL & pIRIR290: range of dates – most likely MIS6
But only if prov of cran in Unit M
Mailys Richard ‘A revised chronology for the Middle Pleistocene sedimentary sequence of Florisbad, South Africa’
Prev fossil hom (eSapiens): OSL & ESR- 279-228 ka
NEW OSL, TT-OSL & pIRIR290: range of dates – most likely MIS6
But only if prov of cran in Unit M
#ESHE2025
Sarah Pederzani ‘ Tracing cold-climate adaptations in early Homo sapiens in Europe …Bacho Kiro, Bulgaria’
How did humans disperse to all climate zones?
🔥! mysterious bone sand 😳?
Exciting results from plant/animal LIPID BIOMARKERS- evidence of animal bone fat extraction !
Sarah Pederzani ‘ Tracing cold-climate adaptations in early Homo sapiens in Europe …Bacho Kiro, Bulgaria’
How did humans disperse to all climate zones?
🔥! mysterious bone sand 😳?
Exciting results from plant/animal LIPID BIOMARKERS- evidence of animal bone fat extraction !
September 27, 2025 at 10:49 AM
#ESHE2025
Sarah Pederzani ‘ Tracing cold-climate adaptations in early Homo sapiens in Europe …Bacho Kiro, Bulgaria’
How did humans disperse to all climate zones?
🔥! mysterious bone sand 😳?
Exciting results from plant/animal LIPID BIOMARKERS- evidence of animal bone fat extraction !
Sarah Pederzani ‘ Tracing cold-climate adaptations in early Homo sapiens in Europe …Bacho Kiro, Bulgaria’
How did humans disperse to all climate zones?
🔥! mysterious bone sand 😳?
Exciting results from plant/animal LIPID BIOMARKERS- evidence of animal bone fat extraction !
#ESHE2025
Charoula Maria Fotiadou ‘Mitochondrial DNA insights into the demographic history of late Neanderthals’
10 new European mtDNA😊!
~65 Ka – bottleneck - MIS3 homog NEA, replaced most earlier div (except Thorin?)!
ROCEEH collab – spatial patterns;
80-60 Ka: French refugium?
Fascinating🥰
Charoula Maria Fotiadou ‘Mitochondrial DNA insights into the demographic history of late Neanderthals’
10 new European mtDNA😊!
~65 Ka – bottleneck - MIS3 homog NEA, replaced most earlier div (except Thorin?)!
ROCEEH collab – spatial patterns;
80-60 Ka: French refugium?
Fascinating🥰
September 27, 2025 at 10:46 AM
#ESHE2025
Charoula Maria Fotiadou ‘Mitochondrial DNA insights into the demographic history of late Neanderthals’
10 new European mtDNA😊!
~65 Ka – bottleneck - MIS3 homog NEA, replaced most earlier div (except Thorin?)!
ROCEEH collab – spatial patterns;
80-60 Ka: French refugium?
Fascinating🥰
Charoula Maria Fotiadou ‘Mitochondrial DNA insights into the demographic history of late Neanderthals’
10 new European mtDNA😊!
~65 Ka – bottleneck - MIS3 homog NEA, replaced most earlier div (except Thorin?)!
ROCEEH collab – spatial patterns;
80-60 Ka: French refugium?
Fascinating🥰
#ESHE2025
Marc Dickinson ‘Advancing enamel amino acid dating’
Using AA in dental enamel for dating
Does glue affect potential? NO 😊
Can ESR powder by re-used? YES 😊
‘lab-on-a-chip’ (minimise sample size) and no need of lab for pre-processing! 😊
Marc Dickinson ‘Advancing enamel amino acid dating’
Using AA in dental enamel for dating
Does glue affect potential? NO 😊
Can ESR powder by re-used? YES 😊
‘lab-on-a-chip’ (minimise sample size) and no need of lab for pre-processing! 😊
September 27, 2025 at 10:14 AM
#ESHE2025
Marc Dickinson ‘Advancing enamel amino acid dating’
Using AA in dental enamel for dating
Does glue affect potential? NO 😊
Can ESR powder by re-used? YES 😊
‘lab-on-a-chip’ (minimise sample size) and no need of lab for pre-processing! 😊
Marc Dickinson ‘Advancing enamel amino acid dating’
Using AA in dental enamel for dating
Does glue affect potential? NO 😊
Can ESR powder by re-used? YES 😊
‘lab-on-a-chip’ (minimise sample size) and no need of lab for pre-processing! 😊
#ESHE2025
Nicole Casaccia ‘The Boomerang of Oblazowa recalibrated…Europe’s earliest complex toolmaking’
UP BOOMERANG from Poland 🤩🌟!!
Also- human phal: Homo sapiens (C14 & aDNA)
ZooMS, isotopes, C14 on fauna: 42.8-38.5 calBP
Major innovations at the beginning of UP in Europe 😍
Nicole Casaccia ‘The Boomerang of Oblazowa recalibrated…Europe’s earliest complex toolmaking’
UP BOOMERANG from Poland 🤩🌟!!
Also- human phal: Homo sapiens (C14 & aDNA)
ZooMS, isotopes, C14 on fauna: 42.8-38.5 calBP
Major innovations at the beginning of UP in Europe 😍
September 27, 2025 at 10:13 AM
#ESHE2025
Nicole Casaccia ‘The Boomerang of Oblazowa recalibrated…Europe’s earliest complex toolmaking’
UP BOOMERANG from Poland 🤩🌟!!
Also- human phal: Homo sapiens (C14 & aDNA)
ZooMS, isotopes, C14 on fauna: 42.8-38.5 calBP
Major innovations at the beginning of UP in Europe 😍
Nicole Casaccia ‘The Boomerang of Oblazowa recalibrated…Europe’s earliest complex toolmaking’
UP BOOMERANG from Poland 🤩🌟!!
Also- human phal: Homo sapiens (C14 & aDNA)
ZooMS, isotopes, C14 on fauna: 42.8-38.5 calBP
Major innovations at the beginning of UP in Europe 😍
#ESHE2025
Lucas Pascarelli ‘The Paranthropus paradox: A reconstruction of African Pleistocene environments and diets’
Fauna distributions to reconstruc palaeoecology & habitat types
PLANTS ? Much harder!!
Cost of chewing vs nutritional gain – how much of what to survive (as a Paranthropus 😀!)
Lucas Pascarelli ‘The Paranthropus paradox: A reconstruction of African Pleistocene environments and diets’
Fauna distributions to reconstruc palaeoecology & habitat types
PLANTS ? Much harder!!
Cost of chewing vs nutritional gain – how much of what to survive (as a Paranthropus 😀!)
September 27, 2025 at 10:02 AM
#ESHE2025
Lucas Pascarelli ‘The Paranthropus paradox: A reconstruction of African Pleistocene environments and diets’
Fauna distributions to reconstruc palaeoecology & habitat types
PLANTS ? Much harder!!
Cost of chewing vs nutritional gain – how much of what to survive (as a Paranthropus 😀!)
Lucas Pascarelli ‘The Paranthropus paradox: A reconstruction of African Pleistocene environments and diets’
Fauna distributions to reconstruc palaeoecology & habitat types
PLANTS ? Much harder!!
Cost of chewing vs nutritional gain – how much of what to survive (as a Paranthropus 😀!)
#ESHE2025
Sol Sanchez-Dehesa Galan ‘Decoding Acheulean skill’
Focus on diff btn Acheulean x Oldowan – Acheulean reduced to +/- of h/xs – ignoring many innovations!
Garba (Ethiopia, 0.6 Ma) pilot & exp study: breaking-down the LCTs reduction seq
Kinematics & cognitive demands of diff techniques 🤩!!
Sol Sanchez-Dehesa Galan ‘Decoding Acheulean skill’
Focus on diff btn Acheulean x Oldowan – Acheulean reduced to +/- of h/xs – ignoring many innovations!
Garba (Ethiopia, 0.6 Ma) pilot & exp study: breaking-down the LCTs reduction seq
Kinematics & cognitive demands of diff techniques 🤩!!
September 27, 2025 at 9:49 AM
#ESHE2025
Sol Sanchez-Dehesa Galan ‘Decoding Acheulean skill’
Focus on diff btn Acheulean x Oldowan – Acheulean reduced to +/- of h/xs – ignoring many innovations!
Garba (Ethiopia, 0.6 Ma) pilot & exp study: breaking-down the LCTs reduction seq
Kinematics & cognitive demands of diff techniques 🤩!!
Sol Sanchez-Dehesa Galan ‘Decoding Acheulean skill’
Focus on diff btn Acheulean x Oldowan – Acheulean reduced to +/- of h/xs – ignoring many innovations!
Garba (Ethiopia, 0.6 Ma) pilot & exp study: breaking-down the LCTs reduction seq
Kinematics & cognitive demands of diff techniques 🤩!!
#ESHE2025
Tamar Rosenberg-Yefet ‘Recombination of technological modules… Tabun Cave’
When recombination evolved? Tranchet blow in Acheulean h/xs
Tabun: comparing diff strike patterns, and tranchet waste
Tranchet: invented for h/x reshaping, then applied to other tool types – MODULAR THINKING 🥰!
Tamar Rosenberg-Yefet ‘Recombination of technological modules… Tabun Cave’
When recombination evolved? Tranchet blow in Acheulean h/xs
Tabun: comparing diff strike patterns, and tranchet waste
Tranchet: invented for h/x reshaping, then applied to other tool types – MODULAR THINKING 🥰!
September 27, 2025 at 9:33 AM
#ESHE2025
Tamar Rosenberg-Yefet ‘Recombination of technological modules… Tabun Cave’
When recombination evolved? Tranchet blow in Acheulean h/xs
Tabun: comparing diff strike patterns, and tranchet waste
Tranchet: invented for h/x reshaping, then applied to other tool types – MODULAR THINKING 🥰!
Tamar Rosenberg-Yefet ‘Recombination of technological modules… Tabun Cave’
When recombination evolved? Tranchet blow in Acheulean h/xs
Tabun: comparing diff strike patterns, and tranchet waste
Tranchet: invented for h/x reshaping, then applied to other tool types – MODULAR THINKING 🥰!
#ESHE2025
Beniamino Mecozzi ‘Reviewing biochronology in the European Middle Pleistocene’
Major advances in developing biochrons for Europe 😊!
Major implications for European homs – fauna dispersals, turn-overs (main at 0.5 Ma), palaeoecology ... lovely 😍
Beniamino Mecozzi ‘Reviewing biochronology in the European Middle Pleistocene’
Major advances in developing biochrons for Europe 😊!
Major implications for European homs – fauna dispersals, turn-overs (main at 0.5 Ma), palaeoecology ... lovely 😍
September 27, 2025 at 9:18 AM
#ESHE2025
Beniamino Mecozzi ‘Reviewing biochronology in the European Middle Pleistocene’
Major advances in developing biochrons for Europe 😊!
Major implications for European homs – fauna dispersals, turn-overs (main at 0.5 Ma), palaeoecology ... lovely 😍
Beniamino Mecozzi ‘Reviewing biochronology in the European Middle Pleistocene’
Major advances in developing biochrons for Europe 😊!
Major implications for European homs – fauna dispersals, turn-overs (main at 0.5 Ma), palaeoecology ... lovely 😍
#ESHE2025
Manuel Will ‘Is there a reproducibility crisis in lithic analysis?’
Not enough studies on replicability!
Project on MSA – 38 vars inter-obs replication on exp flks set: pretty good replicability in most, but not all ☹ 0.2 score for scar directionality!!!
Choose traits, train 😍!!
Manuel Will ‘Is there a reproducibility crisis in lithic analysis?’
Not enough studies on replicability!
Project on MSA – 38 vars inter-obs replication on exp flks set: pretty good replicability in most, but not all ☹ 0.2 score for scar directionality!!!
Choose traits, train 😍!!
September 27, 2025 at 9:12 AM
#ESHE2025
Manuel Will ‘Is there a reproducibility crisis in lithic analysis?’
Not enough studies on replicability!
Project on MSA – 38 vars inter-obs replication on exp flks set: pretty good replicability in most, but not all ☹ 0.2 score for scar directionality!!!
Choose traits, train 😍!!
Manuel Will ‘Is there a reproducibility crisis in lithic analysis?’
Not enough studies on replicability!
Project on MSA – 38 vars inter-obs replication on exp flks set: pretty good replicability in most, but not all ☹ 0.2 score for scar directionality!!!
Choose traits, train 😍!!
#ESHE2025
Aida Gomez-Robles ‘Linking microevolution, macroevolution and genetics to elucidate craniofacial diversification in great apes and humans’
GMM: ape neurofacial levels of intra vs inter spp variation
Humans: evolving exceptionally fast!
>>morph disparity in great apes than gibbons
lovely🥰
Aida Gomez-Robles ‘Linking microevolution, macroevolution and genetics to elucidate craniofacial diversification in great apes and humans’
GMM: ape neurofacial levels of intra vs inter spp variation
Humans: evolving exceptionally fast!
>>morph disparity in great apes than gibbons
lovely🥰
September 27, 2025 at 8:27 AM
#ESHE2025
Aida Gomez-Robles ‘Linking microevolution, macroevolution and genetics to elucidate craniofacial diversification in great apes and humans’
GMM: ape neurofacial levels of intra vs inter spp variation
Humans: evolving exceptionally fast!
>>morph disparity in great apes than gibbons
lovely🥰
Aida Gomez-Robles ‘Linking microevolution, macroevolution and genetics to elucidate craniofacial diversification in great apes and humans’
GMM: ape neurofacial levels of intra vs inter spp variation
Humans: evolving exceptionally fast!
>>morph disparity in great apes than gibbons
lovely🥰
#ESHE2025
Rhianna Drummond-Clarke ‘First documentation and quantification of wild chimpanzee rock climbing’
Camera traps, Issa Valley TZ & Moyen Bafing, Guinea chimps
Rock vs tree climbing: more dynamic movements, biomech diff locomotor modes, reaching further- role of uneven substrates!
Amazing 😍
Rhianna Drummond-Clarke ‘First documentation and quantification of wild chimpanzee rock climbing’
Camera traps, Issa Valley TZ & Moyen Bafing, Guinea chimps
Rock vs tree climbing: more dynamic movements, biomech diff locomotor modes, reaching further- role of uneven substrates!
Amazing 😍
September 27, 2025 at 8:03 AM
#ESHE2025
Rhianna Drummond-Clarke ‘First documentation and quantification of wild chimpanzee rock climbing’
Camera traps, Issa Valley TZ & Moyen Bafing, Guinea chimps
Rock vs tree climbing: more dynamic movements, biomech diff locomotor modes, reaching further- role of uneven substrates!
Amazing 😍
Rhianna Drummond-Clarke ‘First documentation and quantification of wild chimpanzee rock climbing’
Camera traps, Issa Valley TZ & Moyen Bafing, Guinea chimps
Rock vs tree climbing: more dynamic movements, biomech diff locomotor modes, reaching further- role of uneven substrates!
Amazing 😍
#ESHE2025
Alicia Blasi-Toccacceli ‘Morpho-functional analysis of new hominin-associated shoulder remains …Shungura, Ethiopia’
NEW SHUNGURA: OMO VE 3-10063 assoc shoulder 1.84 Ma – Aus or Homo?
GMM of D hum shaft & art, glenoid fossa shape & angle: new fossil is earliest adult HOMO shoulder 😍
Alicia Blasi-Toccacceli ‘Morpho-functional analysis of new hominin-associated shoulder remains …Shungura, Ethiopia’
NEW SHUNGURA: OMO VE 3-10063 assoc shoulder 1.84 Ma – Aus or Homo?
GMM of D hum shaft & art, glenoid fossa shape & angle: new fossil is earliest adult HOMO shoulder 😍
September 27, 2025 at 7:52 AM
#ESHE2025
Alicia Blasi-Toccacceli ‘Morpho-functional analysis of new hominin-associated shoulder remains …Shungura, Ethiopia’
NEW SHUNGURA: OMO VE 3-10063 assoc shoulder 1.84 Ma – Aus or Homo?
GMM of D hum shaft & art, glenoid fossa shape & angle: new fossil is earliest adult HOMO shoulder 😍
Alicia Blasi-Toccacceli ‘Morpho-functional analysis of new hominin-associated shoulder remains …Shungura, Ethiopia’
NEW SHUNGURA: OMO VE 3-10063 assoc shoulder 1.84 Ma – Aus or Homo?
GMM of D hum shaft & art, glenoid fossa shape & angle: new fossil is earliest adult HOMO shoulder 😍
#ESHE2025
Fascinating talk by Chris Ruff ‘Gait in Dmanisi differed from African Homo erectus’
DMANISI pattern: committed terrestrial biped, but walked differently.
Phylo implications for rel w eHomo & erectus
Multiple early Out-of-Africa dispersals 😍: 1st - >2.1 Ma, then ~1.5 Ma
Fascinating talk by Chris Ruff ‘Gait in Dmanisi differed from African Homo erectus’
DMANISI pattern: committed terrestrial biped, but walked differently.
Phylo implications for rel w eHomo & erectus
Multiple early Out-of-Africa dispersals 😍: 1st - >2.1 Ma, then ~1.5 Ma
September 27, 2025 at 7:46 AM
#ESHE2025
Fascinating talk by Chris Ruff ‘Gait in Dmanisi differed from African Homo erectus’
DMANISI pattern: committed terrestrial biped, but walked differently.
Phylo implications for rel w eHomo & erectus
Multiple early Out-of-Africa dispersals 😍: 1st - >2.1 Ma, then ~1.5 Ma
Fascinating talk by Chris Ruff ‘Gait in Dmanisi differed from African Homo erectus’
DMANISI pattern: committed terrestrial biped, but walked differently.
Phylo implications for rel w eHomo & erectus
Multiple early Out-of-Africa dispersals 😍: 1st - >2.1 Ma, then ~1.5 Ma
Rita Sorrentino ‘From function to phylogeny: Exploring the unique structure of the Neanderthal calcaneus’
Why is the Neanderthal calcaneus unique?
GMM: Neanderthals differentiated in several traits across the calcaneus– robusticity & functional adaptations + primitive features
So interesting 😍!!!
Why is the Neanderthal calcaneus unique?
GMM: Neanderthals differentiated in several traits across the calcaneus– robusticity & functional adaptations + primitive features
So interesting 😍!!!
September 27, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Rita Sorrentino ‘From function to phylogeny: Exploring the unique structure of the Neanderthal calcaneus’
Why is the Neanderthal calcaneus unique?
GMM: Neanderthals differentiated in several traits across the calcaneus– robusticity & functional adaptations + primitive features
So interesting 😍!!!
Why is the Neanderthal calcaneus unique?
GMM: Neanderthals differentiated in several traits across the calcaneus– robusticity & functional adaptations + primitive features
So interesting 😍!!!
#ESHE2025
Priscilla Bayle ‘New Neandertal remains from Sirogne Cave (France)’
New exc: rich fauna, some w cut-marks, v variable lithics.
97 homs: 2 mands, 12 PCR, 83 teeth. >10 ind, most not adult! Some w cut-marks 😳!
GMM: NEA affinities.
NEA pop 190-130 ka (MIS6)!
Complex NEA pop dynamics
Priscilla Bayle ‘New Neandertal remains from Sirogne Cave (France)’
New exc: rich fauna, some w cut-marks, v variable lithics.
97 homs: 2 mands, 12 PCR, 83 teeth. >10 ind, most not adult! Some w cut-marks 😳!
GMM: NEA affinities.
NEA pop 190-130 ka (MIS6)!
Complex NEA pop dynamics
September 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
#ESHE2025
Priscilla Bayle ‘New Neandertal remains from Sirogne Cave (France)’
New exc: rich fauna, some w cut-marks, v variable lithics.
97 homs: 2 mands, 12 PCR, 83 teeth. >10 ind, most not adult! Some w cut-marks 😳!
GMM: NEA affinities.
NEA pop 190-130 ka (MIS6)!
Complex NEA pop dynamics
Priscilla Bayle ‘New Neandertal remains from Sirogne Cave (France)’
New exc: rich fauna, some w cut-marks, v variable lithics.
97 homs: 2 mands, 12 PCR, 83 teeth. >10 ind, most not adult! Some w cut-marks 😳!
GMM: NEA affinities.
NEA pop 190-130 ka (MIS6)!
Complex NEA pop dynamics