ANTROPOLOGÍA. ¡Confirmado! Nuestro ancestro más antiguo ya caminaba sobre dos patas. Un nuevo análisis demuestra que el Sahelanthropus (7 millones de años) tenía una marcha erguida habitual. www.cronicadelhenares.com/2026/01/antr... #Evolución #Antropología #Paleontología #Toumai #Ciencia

The curse of Toumaï: an ancient skull, a disputed femur and a bitter feud over humanity’s origins The long read: When fossilised remains were discovered in the Djurab desert in 2001, they were hailed as radically rewriting the history of our species. But not everyone was convinced – and the bitter...

Kid:

"I haven't seen this much drama in paleo-anything since the bone wars of 1890!"

#palaeoanthropology #curses #toumai

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The skullduggery over #Toumai involved suppression of evidence that it was not in fact a #hominin (bipedal) fossil

#anthropology #palaeoanthropology #Sahelanthropus […]

The curse of Toumaï: an ancient skull, a disputed femur and a bitter feud over humanity’s origins The long read: When fossilised remains were discovered in the Djurab desert in 2001, they were hailed as radically rewriting the history of our species. But not everyone was convinced – and the bitter...

What a read! The 85 years old lab boss clinging to the skull, the somewhat younger professor clinging to a femur, and, in passing, the masters student (a woman) as collateral damage
#toumai

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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“There’s been a selection, a choosing of which remains to publish, and which not. No one has the right to do that!”

The dark side of paleoanthropology.

www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/27/the-...

#PaleoAnthropology […]

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