Laura Watson

Peep our poster! Submit an abstract to our session here: submissions.e-a-a.org/eaa2026 Deadline Feb. 5th 2026 Further conference info: e-a-a.org/EAA2026 Reach out if you have any questions!

Do you teach anthropology? Research human evolution? Studied the topic? Or have an interest in the field? 🐒🦧🦴🦍🚶 Then please help us out by completing this survey: questions.huma-num.fr/v4/s/dv57r1 -IRN Bipedal Team @UCamArchaeology @CamBioanth

📢 Call for Papers! Anatomical Record Special Issue: Evolution of Birth Difficulties ✨ Focus: Obstetrical dilemma, pelvic anatomy, neonatal & primate adaptations 📅 LOI: Sept 1 | 📝 Manuscript: Dec 1 Guest Editors @PaleoNicole & @cedric_pp anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/asse…

In families with several children of the same sex, the odds of having another baby of that sex are higher than of having one of the opposite sex go.nature.com/4kZr1jO

🧵 1/2 PhD Opportunity! Join my new HEAR lab @UZH_en (Sept 2025) to research hominin hearing evolution. 4yr contract, SNSF funded. Focus: cochlear anatomy, computational modeling, fossil hearing. shorturl.at/ohH44

Excellent symposium today at AABA "Evolution of birth difficulties: Interdisciplinary approaches to the 'obstetrical dilemma' ". Keep an eye out for the resulting AR Special Issue!

First ⁦@BiologicalAnth⁩ conference was a success! #AABA2025 ⁦@Senckenberg⁩ ⁦@geobiodiversity⁩

Thrilled to share our new study, the first to use EEG to explore brain activation during early hominin tool use, with fascinating insights! Congrats to Simona Affinito and team! @geobiodiversity @uni_tue Link: #article-infoUni" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nature.com/articles/s4159… Press Release: shorturl.at/sHkMX

Another nice news piece on our recently published study showing human-like grasping patterns in early hominins: livescience.com/archaeology/ou…

@Tifanosaurus This is amazing!! 😻

I love cross-stitch, here's a Velociraptor for a late #FossilFriday 🦖🍂🍃🌿🦴🪡

What an impactful ceremony! Really glad I could be there today @geobiodiversity 🤝

🐒#Birth is a tight squeeze for #chimpanzees too! A new study in @NatureEcoEvo shows that the 'obstetrical dilemma' evolved gradually over the course of primate evolution, rather than suddenly in humans as originally argued. 👉 sgn.one/sj9 📸 P. Rolands/Adobe Stock

nature.com/articles/s4155… it's publication day! Check out our most recent work 🐵

Chimpanzees, like humans, must contend with a confined bony birth canal when giving birth. In humans, the problem was exacerbated by our unique form of upright walking since this led to a twisting of the bony birth canal. The “obstetrical dilemma” therefore evolved gradually over the course of primate evolution. news.uzh.ch/en/articles/me… @evmed_ch @Senckenberg

@Coley_Webb Yippee! Hot off the press!

Check out our latest paper on chimpanzee birth that shows us how great apes can help shed light on the evolution of our own complex birth mechanism 🐵 nature.com/articles/s4155…

Workshop: “Ethical Futures for Curation, Research, and Teaching in Biological Anthropology”. Read the summarized conversations and major points of the participants, and join the conversations initiated into the wider field and international community #AJBA doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.2…

Krapina with @ESHE_society #ESHE2024