Elliot Howard-Spink

Our New Paper is out in Nature Human Behaviour: 🚨 Culture is critical in driving orangutan diet development past individual potentials! 🦧 nature.com/articles/s4156…

Have you been too busy to read our recent paper on orangutans' culturally-dependent diets? 😔 Never fear, we have published a two-page research briefing to give you a quick overview of our paper's aims, findings, and implications! 🤩 Check it out here: nature.com/articles/s4156…

With a score of 85, this article is in the top 5% of all research outputs scored by @altmetric! It even featured in @SCIENCEotTIMES's podcast: elife.altmetric.com/details/174462… Take a look: elife.altmetric.com/details/174462… Look out for Altmetric badges on eLife articles 🏆

For more details, check out our paper. A huge thank you to everyone who has collected data for this project at SUAQ, and to all collaborators! Also thank you to the SUAQ project for providing all images above. nature.com/articles/s4156…

This suggests that early hominin cultures were more expansive than can be predicted from surviving artifacts alone, including key information used for daily decision making.

Our New Paper is out in Nature Human Behaviour: 🚨 Culture is critical in driving orangutan diet development past individual potentials! 🦧 nature.com/articles/s4156…

New findings in Science suggest that rodents owe much of their evolutionary success to their thumb-nail (the first digit, D1), an adaptation that gave them dexterous hands for cracking seeds and nuts. Learn more in this week's issue: scim.ag/4lYCdxp

Excited to be a co-author on our new article “The First Million Years of Technology: The Lomekwian and the Early Oldowan” now published online in the Annual Review of Anthropology. Feel free to DM or email for a copy annualreviews.org/content/journa…