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Information on research and outreach in human evolution, primate behavior, genetics, and more from NYCEP - the New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology.
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From "Night at the Museum" to digging up Miocene fossils in Spain, Ph.D. student Ariel Barrera shares how she is living her childhood dream www.gc.cuny.edu/news/digging... @nycep.bsky.social @amnh.org
Digging Into a Dream: A Ph.D. Student Follows Her Passion for Paleoanthropology
Ariel Barrera returns to the American Museum of Natural History — where her fascination began — to study ancient teeth and human evolution.
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July 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
From "Night at the Museum" to digging up Miocene fossils in Spain, Ph.D. student Ariel Barrera shares how she is living her childhood dream www.gc.cuny.edu/news/digging... @nycep.bsky.social @amnh.org
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Our article on Kayaca, a new Miocene locality in Turkey, is now out in the Senckenberg journal Paleodiversity and Paleoenvironments! Congratultions to George Konidaris, Ahmet Aytek and the whole team!
The first result from this wonderful collaboration ✨🎉
#openaccess
The first result from this wonderful collaboration ✨🎉
#openaccess
Kayaca, a new vertebrate locality from the Upper Miocene of Türkiye and its importance for the Turolian biogeography of the eastern peri-Mediterranean region - Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironment...
We present here a new Upper Miocene vertebrate locality, Kayaca, from the Beyağaç Basin in southwestern Türkiye that was discovered after surface survey and was subsequently systematically excavated. ...
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July 24, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Our article on Kayaca, a new Miocene locality in Turkey, is now out in the Senckenberg journal Paleodiversity and Paleoenvironments! Congratultions to George Konidaris, Ahmet Aytek and the whole team!
The first result from this wonderful collaboration ✨🎉
#openaccess
The first result from this wonderful collaboration ✨🎉
#openaccess
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The pollen analysis from Marathousa 1, an MIS12 Lower Paleolithic elephant butchering site in Megalopolis basin (Greece) is now published!!
Congratulations to Stella Kyrikou and team!!! ✨ 🎉
It's wonderful to see this important work finally out!
#openaccess #humanevolution
doi.org/10.1017/qua....
Congratulations to Stella Kyrikou and team!!! ✨ 🎉
It's wonderful to see this important work finally out!
#openaccess #humanevolution
doi.org/10.1017/qua....
July 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
The pollen analysis from Marathousa 1, an MIS12 Lower Paleolithic elephant butchering site in Megalopolis basin (Greece) is now published!!
Congratulations to Stella Kyrikou and team!!! ✨ 🎉
It's wonderful to see this important work finally out!
#openaccess #humanevolution
doi.org/10.1017/qua....
Congratulations to Stella Kyrikou and team!!! ✨ 🎉
It's wonderful to see this important work finally out!
#openaccess #humanevolution
doi.org/10.1017/qua....
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How do you design exhibits on local African paleontology? You start by talking to the people who live where the fossils are from. Now we only have bare walls, but we got enough ideas to fill the space...and then some! #rusingaisland
July 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM
How do you design exhibits on local African paleontology? You start by talking to the people who live where the fossils are from. Now we only have bare walls, but we got enough ideas to fill the space...and then some! #rusingaisland
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Do you have field work experience? Do you want more? Our team wants YOU to manage our field site studying Kinda baboons in Kasanka National Park, Zambia!
Start date is this August 2025 so apply ASAP!
Job ad here: tinyurl.com/KindaBaboon
Start date is this August 2025 so apply ASAP!
Job ad here: tinyurl.com/KindaBaboon
July 1, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Do you have field work experience? Do you want more? Our team wants YOU to manage our field site studying Kinda baboons in Kasanka National Park, Zambia!
Start date is this August 2025 so apply ASAP!
Job ad here: tinyurl.com/KindaBaboon
Start date is this August 2025 so apply ASAP!
Job ad here: tinyurl.com/KindaBaboon
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A summary of our new paper, featuring the brilliant work of @munyaka.bsky.social and @danpeppe.bsky.social. Always new surprises from the fossil record!
Early apes lived in a land of forest fires, floods, and volcanoes, according to new early Miocene fossils.
Research by @mcnultylab.bsky.social, @danpeppe.bsky.social, @munyaka.bsky.social, @paleosol.bsky.social, @susycote.bsky.social, @abigail-hall.bsky.social & colleagues.
eos.org/research-spo...
Research by @mcnultylab.bsky.social, @danpeppe.bsky.social, @munyaka.bsky.social, @paleosol.bsky.social, @susycote.bsky.social, @abigail-hall.bsky.social & colleagues.
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Early Apes Evolved in Tropical Forests Disturbed by Fires and Volcanoes - Eos
Fossils discovered at an early Miocene site in Kenya include a new type of early ape and offer clues about the environment inhabited by human ancestors.
eos.org
June 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
A summary of our new paper, featuring the brilliant work of @munyaka.bsky.social and @danpeppe.bsky.social. Always new surprises from the fossil record!
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Excited to share this new #OpenAccess pub. It completely overturns our understanding of...nothing. It won't be in your newsfeed. Sometimes #science advances by basic, gut-it-out research. Would love comments about our approach to fossil alpha-taxonomy.
paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...
paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...
View of The Alpha-Taxonomy of Ekembo
paleoanthropology.org
May 5, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Excited to share this new #OpenAccess pub. It completely overturns our understanding of...nothing. It won't be in your newsfeed. Sometimes #science advances by basic, gut-it-out research. Would love comments about our approach to fossil alpha-taxonomy.
paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...
paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...
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20 years ago, on April 22, 2005, Misha the zoo elephant was moved from Vallejo, CA to Salt Lake City, UT. Her relocation inspired a suite of studies about isotope turnover, including my recent one published in @commsbio.bsky.social Learn more about the study here: 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...
www.nature.com
April 22, 2025 at 9:24 PM
20 years ago, on April 22, 2005, Misha the zoo elephant was moved from Vallejo, CA to Salt Lake City, UT. Her relocation inspired a suite of studies about isotope turnover, including my recent one published in @commsbio.bsky.social Learn more about the study here: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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New Anatomy Pub! 🦴🫁🧠 We report count and pattern of facial nerve branches near the TMJ based on cadaveric dissections - we also found that pics in anatomy texts are WAY OFF! Please pay for new #medicalillustration instead of repeating old errors! #anatomy #AnatomyEd #TMJ #MedEd #art 🔗 rdcu.be/egiKs
April 3, 2025 at 9:34 PM
New Anatomy Pub! 🦴🫁🧠 We report count and pattern of facial nerve branches near the TMJ based on cadaveric dissections - we also found that pics in anatomy texts are WAY OFF! Please pay for new #medicalillustration instead of repeating old errors! #anatomy #AnatomyEd #TMJ #MedEd #art 🔗 rdcu.be/egiKs
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🚨 New pub 🚨
On the energetics 🔋 of cellular immune activity 🦠 in juvenile arboreal primates 🐒 (not toads and snakes) and its costs 💸 in terms of growth 📈 in lean body mass 💪.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
On the energetics 🔋 of cellular immune activity 🦠 in juvenile arboreal primates 🐒 (not toads and snakes) and its costs 💸 in terms of growth 📈 in lean body mass 💪.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Costs and constraints of cellular immune activity during development in an arboreal primate | Royal Society Open Science
Evolutionary life history theory predicts that, during development, investment in immunity must be balanced with the demands of growth. How, and at what time scales, this balance is negotiated is unclear. In this study, we examined the potential energetic ...
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April 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
🚨 New pub 🚨
On the energetics 🔋 of cellular immune activity 🦠 in juvenile arboreal primates 🐒 (not toads and snakes) and its costs 💸 in terms of growth 📈 in lean body mass 💪.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
On the energetics 🔋 of cellular immune activity 🦠 in juvenile arboreal primates 🐒 (not toads and snakes) and its costs 💸 in terms of growth 📈 in lean body mass 💪.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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New #openaccess paper by our PhD student, Stephanie Lismann, and other colleagues on the reconstruction of the demographic profile of Final Neolithic and Early Bronze populations in Baden-Württemberg, Germany! Congrats! 🎉
⛓️💥 Link to the paper ⬇️
journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ak...
⛓️💥 Link to the paper ⬇️
journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ak...
April 10, 2025 at 8:27 AM
New #openaccess paper by our PhD student, Stephanie Lismann, and other colleagues on the reconstruction of the demographic profile of Final Neolithic and Early Bronze populations in Baden-Württemberg, Germany! Congrats! 🎉
⛓️💥 Link to the paper ⬇️
journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ak...
⛓️💥 Link to the paper ⬇️
journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ak...
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📢Job alert!
W3 (Full) Professorship in Human Ecology at the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, University of Tübingen.
⛓️💥 berufungen.uni-tuebingen.de
Deadline for applications: May 22, 2025 🗓
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For questions please contact Prof. Harvati.
W3 (Full) Professorship in Human Ecology at the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, University of Tübingen.
⛓️💥 berufungen.uni-tuebingen.de
Deadline for applications: May 22, 2025 🗓
Please share and repost 🙏🏼 🤩
For questions please contact Prof. Harvati.
April 10, 2025 at 10:42 AM
📢Job alert!
W3 (Full) Professorship in Human Ecology at the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, University of Tübingen.
⛓️💥 berufungen.uni-tuebingen.de
Deadline for applications: May 22, 2025 🗓
Please share and repost 🙏🏼 🤩
For questions please contact Prof. Harvati.
W3 (Full) Professorship in Human Ecology at the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, University of Tübingen.
⛓️💥 berufungen.uni-tuebingen.de
Deadline for applications: May 22, 2025 🗓
Please share and repost 🙏🏼 🤩
For questions please contact Prof. Harvati.
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The vertebral column evolves through modularity & integration, shaping support & CNS protection. Studying 4 catarrhine primate taxa, researchers found widespread integration, w/hominoids showing more modularity than macaques
Villamil & Middleton: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Villamil & Middleton: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
March 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The vertebral column evolves through modularity & integration, shaping support & CNS protection. Studying 4 catarrhine primate taxa, researchers found widespread integration, w/hominoids showing more modularity than macaques
Villamil & Middleton: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Villamil & Middleton: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Wonderful celebration of Terry Harrison's career at #AABA2025! Thanks @3dmandibleny.bsky.social and Denise Su for organizing, and thank you Terry for agreeing to be toasted (and roasted)!
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@julsam.bsky.social
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March 23, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Wonderful celebration of Terry Harrison's career at #AABA2025! Thanks @3dmandibleny.bsky.social and Denise Su for organizing, and thank you Terry for agreeing to be toasted (and roasted)!
@magratnj.bsky.social
@julsam.bsky.social
@magratnj.bsky.social
@julsam.bsky.social
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Here, we propose a new perspective on early stone tool technology: emulation of naturally occurring sharp-edged stones (naturaliths) instead of inventing via 'Eureka!' moments. Nature provided the blueprint; hominins took it further.
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#Archaeology #Stonetools
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#Archaeology #Stonetools
March 17, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Here, we propose a new perspective on early stone tool technology: emulation of naturally occurring sharp-edged stones (naturaliths) instead of inventing via 'Eureka!' moments. Nature provided the blueprint; hominins took it further.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/arcm...
#Archaeology #Stonetools
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/arcm...
#Archaeology #Stonetools
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We're building a museum on Rusinga Island to tell the stories of fossils found there and the local people who discovered them! No luck getting funding for this, so we're doing it the old-fashined way: digging in the cushions for coins, and building bit by bit.
March 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM
We're building a museum on Rusinga Island to tell the stories of fossils found there and the local people who discovered them! No luck getting funding for this, so we're doing it the old-fashined way: digging in the cushions for coins, and building bit by bit.
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Primatologists Shahrina Chowdhury and Marina Cords join Research Scientist Sergio Almecija (all in @nycep.bsky.social) on 3/22 at Ensemble Studio Theatre to discuss new ESTSloan play HAVE YOU MET JANE GOODALL AND HER MOTHER? by Michael Walek @sloanfoundation.bsky.social
March 20, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Primatologists Shahrina Chowdhury and Marina Cords join Research Scientist Sergio Almecija (all in @nycep.bsky.social) on 3/22 at Ensemble Studio Theatre to discuss new ESTSloan play HAVE YOU MET JANE GOODALL AND HER MOTHER? by Michael Walek @sloanfoundation.bsky.social
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I enjoyed the opportunity to present the diamond open access, community owned, PaleoAnthropology journal and discuss the situation at the Journal of Human Evolution at the NYCEP seminar, City University of New York last week!
Thank you to Larissa Swedell for the invitation.
Thank you to Larissa Swedell for the invitation.
March 13, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I enjoyed the opportunity to present the diamond open access, community owned, PaleoAnthropology journal and discuss the situation at the Journal of Human Evolution at the NYCEP seminar, City University of New York last week!
Thank you to Larissa Swedell for the invitation.
Thank you to Larissa Swedell for the invitation.
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Yesterday was such a full day at the AABA! Highlights included the symposium on A. africanus, the symposium in honor of Terry Harrison, the Paleoanthropology sessions, and meetings with so many colleagues and friends! A very productive conference indeed! 🤩
#AABA
#AABA
March 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Yesterday was such a full day at the AABA! Highlights included the symposium on A. africanus, the symposium in honor of Terry Harrison, the Paleoanthropology sessions, and meetings with so many colleagues and friends! A very productive conference indeed! 🤩
#AABA
#AABA
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SO PROUD of my student Reese, who won the @anthgen.bsky.social OTPAG Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Presentation for their poster on Gut Microbial Sampling as a Proxy for SIV Status in Wild Vervet Monkeys! Well done, Reese, and so well-deserved!
March 15, 2025 at 11:50 PM
SO PROUD of my student Reese, who won the @anthgen.bsky.social OTPAG Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Presentation for their poster on Gut Microbial Sampling as a Proxy for SIV Status in Wild Vervet Monkeys! Well done, Reese, and so well-deserved!
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Also a HUGE congratulations to my PhD student Mel for winning the @bioanth.org Outstanding Presentation Award for her talk on A Reference Mitogenome for the Yellow-Tailed Woolly Monkey Using Oxford Nanopore Sequencing… AMAZING job Mel! So proud of you!
March 15, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Also a HUGE congratulations to my PhD student Mel for winning the @bioanth.org Outstanding Presentation Award for her talk on A Reference Mitogenome for the Yellow-Tailed Woolly Monkey Using Oxford Nanopore Sequencing… AMAZING job Mel! So proud of you!
