Primate Paleontologist, Former Midwesterner, Chicago Cubs/Bears/Bulls/'Hawks fan, Blue Devil, Music Lover, Daddy
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I'm Chris, an #Actuallivingscientist studying Primate Evolution by looking for fossils and comparing their anatomy to living animals.
New paper alert! Interesting Pleistocene monkeys (Chlorocebus, Colobus, + 1 larger taxon) from Markaytoli (Ledi Geraru)...Congrats to the whole team and lead authors I. Smail and J. Arenson! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
For over 100 years, vertebrate fossils have been collected on and off at Ramnagar, J&K, India. In all that time, the stratigraphy and geochronology of the area have never been satisfactorily documented beyond a generaly correlation to the Chinji Fm. of the Potwar Plateau...
The punchline: the earliest primate bearing deposits, including the great ape Sivapithecus, can likely be constrained to ~12.9-13.0 Ma, up to 200 thousand years older than previously known, thereby establishing a new FAD for this iconic taxon.
Thanks to all of my coauthors...truly a team effort led by Leakey and Nat Geo Baldwin Fellow Deepak!! @birenapatel @cj_campisano @danpeppe @TheLeakeyFndtn @NatGeo journals.plos.org/plosone/ar…
Just received this in the mail...the 4th edition of of PA&E is finally out! All chapters have been updated through 2024 as much as possible. Figures and tables are (hopefully) much improved. Order your copy for Fall courses and your bookshelves today!!
Our latest paper presenting further analyses on Kapi ramnagarensis is now published. With Alejandra Ortiz, @kpewpew @cj_campisano @birenapatel Ningthoujam Premjit Singh, John Fleagle, and Rajeev Patnaik
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kOdx…
If AJBA is owned by our society rather than Wiley, that might still be an option, otherwise maybe Paleoanthropology and other journals will take the place of JHE. Maybe University publishing houses will start journals that take the place of Elsevier et al. (I hope)?
This has to be a tie between Hurricane and Isis. Although as an album, Blood on the Tracks is better start to finish, IMHO. Unpopular take: Could’ve been a bit lighter on all the violin on Desire. Love it at first, but starts to get grating as it goes on.
Our colleague @Julia_Zichello is out with a really cool new study on the evolution of U.S. starlings compared to the native European populations! Will be using this as a nice illustration of recent evolution alongside the Grant's studies in ANTHP 101! nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
Congrats to Dr. Baden, Dr. Junge, and team!! @HunterPMELLab
So great to see @ColumbusZoo and @TheWilds partner with Prof. @andreabaden to research and protect lemurs! columbuszoo.org/ranomafana-r…
@gccunyanthro @Hunter_College
Great new paper on the newly reconstructed Pierolapithecus face! Confirms likely stem hominid status for Pierolapithecus and provides implications for the ancestral great ape morphotype. Congrats @kpewpew @AlmecijaSergio @ashleyshammond and coauthors!!
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.22…
