CONEXP 2025 was just amazing! We presented our experiments, but we also enjoyed all the activities that @traceolab.bsky.social organised! A big thanks to all the organisers, participants and volunteers
Just published in AJBA!
Toothnroll: An R Package for Landmarking, Measuring, and Mapping Dental Tissues of Hominoid Anterior Teeth
dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajpa...
Co-authors: @mathilde-augoyard.bsky.social,
@clement-zanolli.bsky.social & Priscilla Bayle
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Spotlight interview with Fotios Alexandros Karakostis regarding his PLOS ONE Lab Protocol paper: "Introducing “Validated entheses-Based reconstruction of activity 2.0” (VERA 2.0): Semi-automated 3D analysis of bone surface changes."
Thrilled to share the new & open-access "VERA 2.0" method and its experimental validation: a semi-automated, fast, and reliable protocol for reconstructing past physical activity from skeletal remains!
Validation paper: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Protocol: protocols.io/view/protoco...
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Image from Skinner et al (2025) showing the SK 46 fossil specimen (a cranium typically attributed to Paranthropus robustus) from Swartkrans, South Africa. The specimen is depicted in sagittal section from the microCT image (top right) and as surface renderings of the cranium in anterior view (top left), lateral view (bottom left), and inferior view (bottom right).
An open-access collection of early fossil hominin scans from Swartkrans, South Africa was recently published in the journal PaleoAnthropology by Skinner et al. Both Paranthropus robustus & early Homo are represented in the assemblage.
paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...
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Pleased (and surprised!) to announce the publication of my new book ‘Notes from Ivory Flats: Reflections on the Changing Landscape of Academic Life’.
JHE Update: Here below I am sharing a message on behalf of the two former co-Editors-in-Chief of JHE, Andrea Taylor and Mark Grabowski:
First, we are profoundly grateful for the outpouring of support from the human evolution community for the collective decision to resign. 1/3
In any event, whether one bird does or does not in some degree "learn" from another, there is not a fragment of even alleged evi- dence that bird song is a tradition, that like human speech or human music it accumulates and develops from age to age, that it is inevitably altered from generation to generation by fashion or custom, and that it is impossible for it ever to remain the same: in other words, that it is a social thing or due to a process even remotely akin to those affecting all constituents of human civiliza- tion. (Kroeber 1917)
Title page of Lynch & Baker (1993): A population memetics approach to cultural evolution in chaffinch song: Meme diversity within populations
Title page of Lachlan et al.: "Cultural conformity generates extremely stable traditions in bird song"
Title page of Youngblood & Lahti: "Content bias in the cultural evolution of house finch song"
What a difference a century makes! Kroeber (1917) arguing that birdsong couldn't possibly be a socially learned tradition. Research since has shown how wrong he was.
📣 #Forschungsnews: Gehirn-Evolution & Werkzeuggebrauch:
Beim Nüsse-Knacken oder Schneiden von Mustern in Leder mit Frühmenschen-Steinwerkzeugen zeigt das EEG deutliche Unterschiede, mit starker Aktivität in den Scheitel- und Stirnlappen des Großhirns bei der komplexeren Aufgabe. 🧠
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