@ChrisStringer65

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Joined March 2013
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How Humans Really Evolved From Africa youtu.be/EeZpp4mxfNQ?is=HOIK… via @YouTube

Shocking New DNA Study: How Humans Really Evolved From Africa

Professor Chris Stringer is on the Ancients podcast to talk about r...

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A tiger tattoo on the shoulder of a 3rd century BC Scythian male mummy found in 1949 in the Altai Mountains, Siberia, Russia
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Antelope collagen found in 60,000-year-old ochre offers clues to early human practices phys.org/news/2026-10-antelo…

Antelope collagen found in 60,000-year-old ochre offers clues to early human practices

In the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, a research team from Kyushu University, Universitetet i Bergen and the University of Copenhagen reports that it found traces of ancient collagen...

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Palaeoproteomic investigation of archaeological sediments associated with ochre use in the Middle Stone Age of southern Africa royalsocietypublishing.org/r…

Palaeoproteomic investigation of archaeological sediments associated with ochre use in the Middle...

Abstract. The African Middle Stone Age (MSA) represents the cultural and technological context associated with the emergence of Homo sapiens and the develo

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Huge mapping study reveals how your brain tracks what your body is feeling nature.com/articles/d41586-0…

Huge mapping study reveals how your brain tracks what your body is feeling

Nature - Signals in the insula region, deep in the brain, can make people feel hot, tingly and nauseous.

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The Frieze of the Small Horses, painted at Lascaux about 20,000 years ago.
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#FossilFriday Our Human Evolution Gallery opened 10 years ago ⁦@NHM_London⁩ ⁦@NHM_Anthro⁩
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This huge bronze cauldron dating from about 700 BC was recovered from the Thames at Battersea ⁦@britishmuseum⁩
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New perspectives on the Howiesons Poort from the site of Kathu Pan 6, South Africa sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Inside storage pit 116 of Zaraysk site, a stunning female figurine made of mammoth ivory was found at a depth of 186 cm. A true masterpiece of Paleolithic art, originally covered and protected by a mammoth scapula!
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Foraging in island rainforests during the Last Glacial Maximum: chronostratigraphic, zooarchaeological, and technological evidence from Biak Island, Indonesian Papua sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Harvesting knives in Neolithic East Asia sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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First Primate Clavicles From Swartkrans Cave: Further Indications of Habitual Arboreal Behavior in Some Early Pleistocene South African Hominins onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

First Primate Clavicles From Swartkrans Cave: Further Indications of Habitual Arboreal Behavior in...

Objectives We provide descriptions and taphonomic and functional interpretations of two hominin clavicles, SWT1/HR-5 and SWT1/HR-6, from Swartkrans Member 1. We explore the possibility that one of...

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Eyebrow movements as signals of communicative problems in human face-to-face interaction royalsocietypublishing.org/r…

Eyebrow movements as signals of communicative problems in human face-to-face interaction

Abstract. Repair is a core building block of human communication, allowing us to address problems of understanding in conversation. Past research has uncov

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Professor Tim Coulson explores why humans remove body hair, examining cultural anxieties and evolutionary theories behind our unusual hair patterns. the-european.eu/story-67923/…

A close shave with evolution – why humans are so hung up on hair

Professor Tim Coulson explores the science and cultural anxieties behind human body hair, examining why people remove it and what evolution can explain.

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Network-based analysis reveals genetic diversity of human-brain expressed genes with high evolutionary rates frontiersin.org/journals/neu…

Frontiers | Network-based analysis reveals genetic diversity of human-brain expressed genes with...

IntroductionComparing the gene expression profiles of human and non-human primate brains can provide essential insights to understand the structural and func...

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These three-year awards are designed to support UK-based early career researchers who show exceptional talent in both research and public engagement. The awards emphasise and demonstrate the importance of academic research and creative thought at a time of rapid political and societal change. go.pardot.com/webmail/107608…
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Chinese scientists confirm Xujiayao hominins as Denisovans, revealing shared physical traits globaltimes.cn/page/202610/1…

Chinese scientists confirm Xujiayao hominins as Denisovans, revealing shared physical traits

Chinese scientists have identified the Xujiayao hominins, whose fossils were unearthed in North China’s Hebei Province, as Denisovans, a distinct branch of ancient humans, through palaeoproteomic...

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Archaeologists spar over age of key South American dig site | Science science.org/content/article/…

Archaeologists spar over age of key South American dig site

Monte Verde is key to debates about the peopling of the Americas. A study challenging its age sparks fireworks at a conference

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Vast new fossil record challenges story of Earth’s ‘big five’ mass extinctions nature.com/articles/d41586-0…

Vast new fossil record challenges story of Earth’s ‘big five’ mass extinctions

Nature - An artificial-intelligence model trained on nearly four million fossils suggests that three of the extinction events might have happened more gradually than previously thought.

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VOLCANIC IMPACTS ON CLIMATE AND SOCIETY (PAGES) pastglobalchanges.org/public…
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