Chris Stringer

The Biggest Mysteries of Human Evolution | Chris Stringer youtu.be/YmN5dHAElCw?is… via @YouTube

Salty water may have flowed near Mars’ equator as recently as 400,000 years ago sciencenews.org/article/salty-…

Seven human species once lived on Earth: Why only we survived? newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/seven-hum…

VLIZ recruits: Researcher offshore palaeolandscape exploration | Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee vliz.be/en/jobs/vliz-r…

At least 7 other human species walked alongside our own. Watch this video to learn about each one - in less than 2 minutes!

Saber-toothed cats suffered painful spinal tumors science.org/content/articl…

It gives me no pleasure to repost this, 3 years on..

Ecological epigenetics at the intersection of behaviour and life history variation in non-model animals (whole volume) royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/381…

Continuity and discontinuity in Native American populations: Insights from ancient and modern mitochondrial DNA pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42475729/

This needs a bit of updating though.. 'Don’t let their small stature fool you - these ‘hobbits’ were among the deadliest predators to stalk their jungle island home'

The evolution and diversification of Cetacea | Nature Reviews Biodiversity nature.com/articles/s4435…

David Wengrow CENIEH Distinguished Annual Lecture youtube.com/live/40KAHcQ_B…

@mboudry @WorksInProgMag There is a substantial literature on how kids in hunter-gatherer and other small-scale societies spend their time, who they interact with, and the role of their parents. Our paper on one aspect of this topic will be out in a few days.

Found in Ukraine in 1973, the Kernosivskyi Idol was nearly discarded before schoolchildren saved it. Dating to the mid-3rd millennium BC, the stele bears divine imagery, weapons, animals, symbols, and ritual scenes. 📷 Merike Joosep

A spectacular fossil find provides tantalizing clues about the habits of pterosaurs, ancient flying reptiles that lived at the same time as dinosaurs. The cache of more than 200 fossil eggs found with bones of juvenile and adult animals in 2017 suggested to some researchers that pterosaur parents may have cared for their newly hatched young. Learn more this #NationalParentsDay: scim.ag/3RdfC77

Whimsical painted scenes from a 3,200 year-old ancient Egyptian illustrated papyrus in which animals take on human roles. A lion and gazelle play a board game (probably senet), a hippo and a canine brew beer, and a cat waits on a mouse! 📷 British Museum #Archaeology

Magdalenian sculpture of a horse's head, in reindeer antler, from Mas d'Azil (replica). Photo: Don Hitchcock