RCEAP at Liverpool John Moores University

What are the many benefits to taking a Bayesian approach to phylogenetic comparative methods? Find out in the new pub from our own @markwgrabowski, along with a new R package for Phylogenetic Comparative Methods. Open access now in Systematic Biology: academic.oup.com/sysbio/advance…

What's role does body breadth have on core body temperature during running? Find out in the latest publication from a team that includes our own @markwgrabowski

Apply now - headed by programme leaders Matt Grove (UoL) and @markwgrabowski (LJMU)

It has taken 7 million years of struggle to make us ‘human.’ How did we get here and why? In our Human Evolution MSc you'll investigate the biological and behavioural changes that made us the species we call Homo sapiens.

Our own @markwgrabowski joins a great team focused on one of the classic biological questions of the role of constraints vs. adaptation - the antlers of the Irish Elk.

We hope so, which is why we've made it easy to contribute your own phenotypic time series to PETS, aiming for a dynamic, community-driven database. Please help spread the word about PETS within the community. If you'd like to help with PETS, please reach out. End of 🧵

RCEAP researcher Rui Martiniano and colleagues have generated the first ancient genomes from Arabia, producing insights about the human population history of the region and adaptation against malaria. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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A team including our own @markwgrabowski goes deep into what it means to assign numbers to aspects of reality - and its relevance for interpreting the fossil record. Open access in @Trends_Ecol_Evo cell.com/trends/ecology…

Wrapping up a great specialist course on dental anthropology here @ArcheoUGent with Prof Irish from @RCEAP_LJMU with a lecture on Nubia. With the support of the Flemish Government.

Looking for potential PhD students in Dinosaur footprints. As always, funding is competitive. If interested, send me an email with up to date CV and expression of interest. (Note that my replies are on the slow side right now) findaphd.com/phds/project/d…

New PhD Position!🚨Please RT🚨 We are looking for an enthusiastic student interested in conducting birth simulations for our recently funded @LeibnizWGL Collaborative Excellence project. See announcement for further details and more info on how to apply. Deadline July 1🤰

From our own @P_Tkaczynski, out now in Nature Communications Biology.

Just out from our own @markwgrabowski, what were the major drivers of primate brain size evolution?

#FossilFriday New lumbar vertebrae of Issa, skeleton MH2 of Australopithecus sediba, presented this week. Credit: Thierra Nalley / +info: wp.me/p4Bi9E-2k0

Our ancient relative who 'walked like a human but climbed like an ape' bit.ly/2ZeMSzG @eLife @nyuniversity @WitsUniversity @markwgrabowski #humanoids #sediba #anthropology @ljmubiology

An international team including our own @markwgrabowski reveal a nearly complete lower back of extinct hominin Australopithecus sediba - likely both a climber and a biped.

Our own @markwgrabowski and colleagues clarify the benefits of studying evolvability in the fossil record, out now in Paleobiology.

Our own Dr. Richard Jennings co-authored a new article in Nature on multiple hominin dispersals into SW Asia. Check it out: nature.com/articles/s4158…