@lolvanhol

Assistant Professor @EmoryUniversity - Hominin macroevolution, interspecific competition, and living models

 Cambridge, England
Joined March 2017
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Interspecific competition played an important, previously ignored, and unusual role in hominin speciation and extinction - read my latest paper in @NatureEcoEvo here: rdcu.be/dE0vz @CamZoology @UCamArchaeology
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Absolutely thrilled to announce I've just started as Assistant Professor at @EmoryUniversity! Life - both academic and non-academic - feels full of excitement, ideas, and energy. Stay tuned for total irreverence for disciplinary boundaries in human evolutionary biology 🤩✨
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I'd apply in a heartbeat if I could. Most creative (!) project proposal I've ever read, brilliant fieldwork opportunities, and the BEST supervising team you could wish for! Apply, apply, apply!
Prof Kathelijne Koops@KathelijneKoops2 Jul 2025
📣ATTENTION!!! Two PhD positions on Creativity in Wild Chimpanzees and Bonobos 🤩@snsf_ch @UZH_en @univofstandrews Come join @APE_Group_UZH & Wild Minds Lab @NakedPrimate ✨Please RT✨ @EFPrimatology @PsgbStudent @BiologicalAnth @IPS_PrimateNews @PrimateEducate
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Key result number 2⃣...
Hellen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉@hellen_wildlife8 Jul 2025
Replying to @hellen_wildlife @KathelijneKoops @APE_Group_UZH @BulindiChimps @GMERC_TZ
Many carrying styles were atypical to those of living healthy & sick infants, suggesting that chimps are aware of the difference... These carrying modes included draping the corpse over the shoulders/back, carrying the corpse in the mouth, by the head/neck or tucked in the groin.
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Key result number 1⃣...
Hellen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉@hellen_wildlife8 Jul 2025
Replying to @hellen_wildlife @KathelijneKoops @APE_Group_UZH
Until now, ICC in chimps had only been documented in habituated groups via direct observation. But what about the many chimpanzee populations that aren't habituated? Using camera traps, we recorded ICC in 7 unhabituated communities, at *twice* the frequency of existing reports.
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Chimpanzee Dian (named after Fossey) of the Tongbongbon community carrying her deceased infant in the Nimba Mountains of Guinea 😢@APE_Group_UZH @UZH_Science
Hellen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉@hellen_wildlife8 Jul 2025
Replying to @hellen_wildlife
Comparative thanatology (the study of how animals respond to death), offers insights into cognition, maternal bond, and grief. One response is *infant corpse carrying (ICC)*, which is observed in many animal species, particularly among cetaceans and primates including chimps
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A lovely group of collaborators, and such a thought-provoking subject matter. Give it a read! ⬇️
Hellen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉@hellen_wildlife8 Jul 2025
🚨 New Paper Alert 🚨 *Camera Traps Document Infant Corpse Carrying Behaviour in Multiple Unhabituated Chimpanzee Populations* A multi-site collaboration across Guinea-Bissau 🇬🇼, Guinea🇬🇳, Uganda🇺🇬 & Tanzania🇹🇿 Now published in @Ecol_Evol Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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🚨 New study reveals that when used to summarize scientific research, generative AI is nearly five times LESS accurate than humans. Many haven't realized, but Gen AI's accuracy problem is worse than initially thought.
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Sergio Almécija@AlmecijaSergio19 Dec 2024
"Primate Phenotypes:" 6,000+ 3D scans. Skeletons. Bones. MorphoSource. Go.Collect.Data! #openaccess Project description: nature.com/articles/s41597-0…
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Claddis R package@Claddis_pkg3 Sep 2024
NEW VERSION: Claddis version 0.7.0 is now live in CRAN. cran.r-project.org/web/packa…

Claddis: Measuring Morphological Diversity and Evolutionary Tempo

Measures morphological diversity from discrete character data and estimates evolutionary tempo on phylogenetic trees. Imports morphological data from #NEXUS (Maddison et al. (1997) <doi:10.1093/sys...

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Just came out! Reconstructing contactand a potential interbreedinggeographical zonebetween Neanderthalsand anatomically modern humans doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-7…
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Many Minds podcast@ManyMindsPod26 Aug 2024
New episode!! 📣📣 A conversation w/ @birchlse about his new book, 'The Edge of Sentience.' Some beings are clearly sentient—primates and dogs, for example. Many other beings might be, but we're just not sure. How should we treat the edge cases? Listen: disi.org/the-space-of-possib…
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🚨 Exciting news! The first paper from our project out in @IntJPrimatology 🐒 We report positive interspecies interactions between tolerant geladas and olive baboons in an unprotected area in Ethiopia 🫱🏾‍🫲🏼@TheLeakeyFndtn @EthosLabo Full story here: link.springer.com/article/10…
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Was asked to comment on @wabarree's new paper (in Dutch, sorry Andrew!): "There is far too little explicit thought about the limits of our knowledge and what we can do about it. This is a much-needed and creative response to that scarcity..a delightfully uncomfortable conclusion"
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Read the paper here: nature.com/articles/s41559-0…
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Prof. Leslea J. Hlusko@LHlusko27 Jun 2024
Just finished two inspirational days @EED2024. An honor to present @Tied2Teeth @ERC_Research and to see the always-kind @J_Saers, the always-cool @aigverte and to meet Frietson Galis! Some of my fave talks: @UCSDCooperLab @aigverte Marketa Kaucka Maud Fagny Thanks #Helsinki!
Poster image of Helsinki for EED conference

ALT Poster image of Helsinki for EED conference

Selfie of Jaap, Frietson, Alexa, and Leslea

ALT Selfie of Jaap, Frietson, Alexa, and Leslea

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New Scientist
@newscientist21 Jun 2024
Several plants eaten by chimpanzees when they are ill or wounded have been found to have medicinal effects, providing some of the strongest evidence yet that our close relatives practise self-medication. newscientist.com/article/243…

Sick chimpanzees seek out range of plants with medicinal properties | New Scientist

Chimpanzees with wounds or gut infections seem to add unusual plants to their diet, and tests show that many of these plants have antibacterial or anti-inflammatory effects

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Getting our heads in the game 💪
Dr Ashleigh Wiseman@ArchaeoAshleigh12 Jun 2024
Hominin skulls galore!! Excited to be working with @lolvanhol today on skull morphologies 💀👀
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Bill Sutherland@Bill_Sutherland9 Jun 2024
Why foxglove populations are doomed and the importance of thinking about metapopulations. More videos youtube.com/@Bill_Sutherland
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Join me on Episode 9 of the @paperlesspod as I chat with Dr. Elodie Freymann from @UniofOxford about her groundbreaking research on Chimpanzee Self-Medication in Uganda's Budongo Forest. Don't miss out! linktr.ee/paperlesspodcast
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Communications Biology@CommsBio30 May 2024
7-dimensional niche space of 191 primate species shows niche diversity is partitioned unequally. Interspecific competition is lowest in great apes and highest in callitrichids. @lolvanhol @KathelijneKoops @pimientoc nature.com/articles/s42003-0…

Multidimensional primate niche space sheds light on interspecific competition in primate evolution

Communications Biology - 7-dimensional niche space of 191 primate species shows niche diversity is partitioned unequally. Interspecific competition is lowest in great apes and highest in...

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