#human-evolution — Public Fediverse posts

A new Pleistocene container database finds 739 examples, including a bark tray from Zambia ~500,000 years old. The real total is likely millions — most were organic and are simply gone. #Paleoanthropology #Archaeology #HumanEvolution https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-bag-before-the-bowl-pleistocene

A Neanderthal got a tooth drilled 59,000 years ago — with a jasper perforator, no anesthetic, and it worked. New research from Chagyrskaya Cave just rewrote the history of dentistry. #Neanderthal #Paleoanthropology #HumanEvolution #Dentistry #Tooth https://www.anthropology.net/p/a-neanderthal-had-a-tooth-drilled

New @Nature study recovers proteins from 400,000-year-old Homo erectus teeth in China -- and finds a variant shared with Denisovans, who later passed it to people in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Some of us carry a trace of H. erectus. #Paleoanthropology #AncientDNA #HumanEvolution https://www.anthropology.net/p/what-homo-erectus-teeth-from-three

Cut marks on 1.6-million-year-old leg bones from Koobi Fora reveal early Homo was selectively transporting and intensively processing carcasses — a consistent strategy sustained across half a million years of shifting environments. #Paleoanthropology #HumanEvolution #Zooarchaeology https://www.anthropology.net/p/what-16-million-year-old-leg-bones

New uranium-thorium dates from a deer rib place China’s Lingjing site 20,000 years deeper in time, squarely in an ice age. The sophisticated stone tools found there weren’t made during good times. #Paleoanthropology #HumanEvolution #StoneAge https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-crystals-in-the-bone-changed

Stone tools from a 1981 excavation in Arnhem Land turn out to be the world’s oldest known intentionally heat-treated chert — nearly twice as old as comparable evidence from Europe or East Asia. #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #Paleoanthropology https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-worlds-oldest-heat-treated-chert

Andean Quechua speakers carry more copies of a starch-digestion gene than any known population — and the selection signal is stronger than classic high-altitude adaptations. New: Nature Communications 2026. #Anthropology #HumanEvolution #Archaeogenomics https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-strongest-selection-signal-in

This week's #NewBooks at the library: Another three books from our January clearance sale, some of which have been review candidates for some time now.

- Planet Palm: How Palm Oil Ended Up in Everything – and Endangered the World, a shocking and eye-opening reportage written by Jocelyn C. Zuckerman and published by Hurst Publishers.

- Making Faces: The Evolutionary Origins of the Human Face, written by Adam S. Wilkins, published by Belknap Press. Not one I was planning to review, but I find it very hard to pass up a bargain on an interesting book on human evolution and physical anthropology.

- Unfit for Purpose: When Human Evolution Collides with the Modern World, written by Adam Hart, published by Bloomsbury Sigma. One of several books that explores the mismatch between our evolutionary legacy and the modern world we have created for ourselves. I expect them to be amusing reads all!

#Books #Bookstodon #Scicomm #EnvironmentalIssues #PalmOil #PlantationForestry #FoodAdditives #Evolution #HumanEvolution #PhysicalAnthropology #Anatomy #PopularScience @bookstodon

New study: Neanderthal brain differences from modern humans are smaller than the variation between two living human populations today. The cognitive inferiority argument doesn’t survive the math. #Neanderthals #Paleoanthropology #HumanEvolution https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-measure-of-a-neanderthal-mind

Human Origins Likely Shaped by Multiple Interconnected Populations in Africa

📰 Original title: DNA research just rewrote the origin of human species

🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Usuarios: It's clickbait ⚠️

View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/human-origins-likely-shaped-by-multiple-interconnected-populations-in-africa/?redirpost=fb8c0050-6e42-4054-90d4-ed6324fcbf8c

#science #humanevolution #africa

New research maps Neanderthal and Homo sapiens habitats across Europe 60,000–34,000 yrs ago. The habitat was fine. What differed was how well each group’s territories were connected to each other — and that may have made all the difference. #Neanderthals #HumanEvolution #Paleoanthropology https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-network-problem-what-spatial

New research: less than 0.1% of the human genome predicts spoken language ability better than all the rest combined. And Neanderthals may have carried more of it than living humans do. #HumanEvolution #Genetics #Paleoanthropology https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-ancient-switches-behind-human

199 Indigenous American genomes. A third dispersal into South America. A ghost ancestry under selection for 10,000 years. The genomic scar of colonization. #Archaeogenetics #IndigenousAmerica #HumanEvolution https://www.anthropology.net/p/three-migrations-a-ghost-ancestry

Malaria shaped where our ancestors could live across Africa for 74,000 years — long before farming, long before cities. A new model maps the ancient geography of avoidance. #Paleoanthropology #HumanEvolution #Malaria https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-geography-of-avoidance-malaria

Kabua 1: a Kenyan fossil found in the 1950s, with archaic vault walls and a distinctly modern chin, now dated to at least 64,000 years. New morphometric analysis places it within H. sapiens, mostly. #Paleoanthropology #HumanEvolution #LatePleistocene @katharv.bsky.social @chrisbstringer.bsky.social @hugoreyes.bsky.social https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-kabua-1-skull-what-a-long-neglected

Was “behavioral modernity” ever a useful concept — or just a convenient label we’re ready to retire? New work argues Neanderthal evidence has made the concept unworkable. 🧠 #Neanderthals #Paleoanthropology #HumanEvolution https://www.anthropology.net/p/its-time-to-retire-behavioral-modernity

Hunter-gatherers in Malaysia have better-preserved smell genes than farmers — and new genomics research explains why. How you live shapes what your nose can detect, all the way down to your DNA.
#HumanEvolution #Genomics #Olfaction https://www.anthropology.net/p/what-hunter-gatherers-kept-that-farmers

🧠 Cosa raccontano davvero i crani del Neolitico ligure?
Uno studio internazionale pubblicato nel 2026 svela una storia molto più complessa del previsto tra agricoltori e cacciatori-raccoglitori.

📍 Dal Finalese emergono nuove risposte (e nuove domande) sulla preistoria europea

#Archeologia #Neolitico #Liguria #Preistoria #Antropologia #Ricerca #Scienza #HumanEvolution

I dettagli su Storie & Archeostorie: https://wp.me/p7tSpZ-cTZ

https://storiearcheostorie.com/2026/04/17/neolitico-liguria-studio-crani-popolazioni-antiche/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

A Neanderthal infant’s bones and teeth don’t agree on its age. The gap between them reveals something fundamental about how Neanderthals developed. New research in Current Biology. #Neanderthal #Paleoanthropology #HumanEvolution https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-neanderthal-infant-whose-bones

780,000-year-old charcoal from Gesher Benot Ya’aqov reveals that early hominins may have chosen their campsites partly for firewood access. Even the wood they burned tells us how they read their landscape. #Paleoanthropology #Acheulian #HumanEvolution https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-wood-they-burned-firewood-driftwood

15-Apr-2026
Massive #ancientDNA study reveals #naturalSelection has accelerated in recent human evolution
Hundreds of genes selected in West Eurasia since farming began, many linked to health

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1123959

#science #genome #humans #humanEvolution

Did human evolution stop when we started farming? New aDNA research from 16,000 individuals suggests it actually sped up. We’re finally seeing the “real-time” genetic shifts that shaped modern West Eurasians. #HumanEvolution #AncientDNA #Genetics https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-accelerated-genome-ten-millennia

New excavations in Ethiopia’s Afar Rift reveal three Homo sapiens skeletons with three very different fates: one buried by floods, one charred by fire, and one taken by a predator. #Anthropology #HumanEvolution #Archaeology https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-three-fates-of-faro-daba

There is still a chance to enter to win a copy of HUMAN at Storygraph!

A remarkable exploration of family, society, and what makes us human, HUMAN will take you from the post-apocalyptic world of the near future, to the two very different societies that emerge 15 million years later, where those few surviving individuals have evolved to become something that we might not fully recognize as human.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/giveaways/ce1477de-5fcc-4a27-891e-b87bb99e4c71

#HUMAN #WhatToRead #BookBlog #Readers #BrettHodnett #SpeculativeFiction #SciFi #WritersOfMastodon #SFF #SF #ScienceFiction #Author #Writer #Writers #Books #Livres #Bookstodon #HumanEvolution #PostApocalypse #ApocalypticFiction #Evolution #EPUB #Ebook #FreeBook #FreeBooks #GiveAway #Apocalypse #FediHuman

Scientists still do not know what happened to our Neanderthal sisters and brothers.

But they're progressing fast. It's kind of gold rush atmosphere in this part of science cause there are so many new findings in such a short amount of time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhSes-Io-kc

#Neanderthal #Evolution #HumanEvolution #Anthropology #HomoSapiens

The disaster that never happened - Why interpretation of data is key. Cause the same data can tell very different stories. In fact: It's ourselves who tells the stories. Not the data.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJm22rmJsgg

#Science #Evolution #Human #Ancestry #Biology #HumanEvolution #Anthropology

220,000 years ago, early humans in South Africa were making dedicated quarrying trips — not just picking up stone on the way to something else. The Jojosi site rewrites the timeline of deliberate resource planning. #Paleoanthropology #MiddleStoneAge #HumanEvolution https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-stone-seekers-of-jojosi