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📊Decades of data show age plays an important role in primate reproduction -- with @jacobafeder a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow with the Institute of Human Origins. Read more: bit.ly/40NLZeA

🧬"Largest genetic chimpanzee study unveils how they’ve adapted to multiple habitats and disease."🌍 Kevin Langergraber - IHO research scientist and @ASUBeingHuman associate professor contributed to study. Led by @H_Ostridge @UGI_at_UCL Read: bit.ly/4gO4dSK

If you think about it, Lucy is our oldest “it girl.” buff.ly/4iyhpwn

Finally at No. 1, a new study from researchers @HumanOriginsASU and @ASUBeingHuman found that humans started gaining technical knowledge through social learning around 600,000 years ago, possibly predating the divergence of Neanderthals and modern humans.

At No. 2, researchers from @ASUBeingHuman and @HumanOriginsASU published a study in @nature that found early modern humans may have dispersed on so-called “blue highways” formed by seasonal rivers.

👉Did you miss it⁉️ Check out IHO Research Scientist, Sarah Mathew in her March 2024 lecture, "How contemporary human populations have adapted to the semi-arid savanna." youtu.be/B1xUDhRMHqE?si… via @YouTube

‘Deep inside, something told me I had found the earliest human ancestor; I went numb’ – Yohannes Haile-Selassie on his lifetime quest to discover ancient humanity theconversation.com/deep-inside-so… via @ConversationUK

Institute of Human Origins Research Scientist and @ASUBeingHuman Professor, Gary Schwartz runs an Advanced Visualization Lab with state-of-the-art scanning technology including a micro-computed tomography scanner (micro-CT). 💀 @ASUTheCollege

Anthropology undergraduate dazzles faculty on her way to being named a Dean's Medalist news.asu.edu/20241202-sun-d…

Join IHO Director Yohannes Haile-Selassie for a special conversation on Thursday, December 5! Event details below, on the Tempe Campus -- Register here: specialevents.asu.edu/yohannesihofut…

Pioneering professor of cultural evolution pens essays for leading academic journals #CulturalEvolution @ASUBeingHuman @ASUTheCollege news.asu.edu/20241122-scien…

Fifty years ago, our understanding of human origins began to change with the discovery of Lucy, a remarkably complete, 3.2-million-year-old human relative unearthed from the sandy soil in Hadar, Ethiopia. wapo.st/4910Fte

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This year’s @greatethrun celebrated the 50th Anniversary of Lucy's Discovery! Check out the shirts on Nov. 17th 50,000 runners!

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