MU-Peter Shimon 🀄

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The most ancient human genome yet has been sequenced—and it’s a Denisovan’s 🏺🧪 www.science.org/content/arti... 200,000-year-old DNA from Siberian cave shows our elusive, extinct cousins mated repeatedly with Neanderthals

‘A history of contact’: Princeton geneticists are rewriting the narrative of Neanderthals and other ancient humans 🏺🧪 www.princeton.edu/news/2024/07... They are all humans but to avoid saying “Neanderthal humans,” “Denisovan humans,” most researchers say Neanderthals, Denisovans, and modern humans

When did early hominins arrive in Europe? Magnetostratigraphic dating of earliest hominin sites in Europe 🏺🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Evidence hominins with Oldowan tools entered Europe for the first time ~ 0.5 Ma after first leaving Africa.

Face of a 'strong and serene' man - is revealed 300,000 years after his death 🏺🧪 www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/... A digital scan of the Jebel Irhoud cranium, layered with soft tissue and skin to produce a man described as being 'strong and serene.'

A multi-ancestry GWAS meta-analysis of facial features and its application in predicting archaic human features 🏺🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Genomic data and facial analysis provide insight into evolutionary history and adaptive changes in human facial morphology

Recurrent gene flow between Neanderthals and modern humans over the past 200,000 years 🏺🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... A new framework to model the increasingly complex dynamics of introgression between humans and Neanderthals and the ramifications for both populations.

Neanderthal sex, genes and chromosomes Interspecies mating left us with Neanderthal genes But one mystery still remains. Modern human DNA contains bits from all over the Neanderthal genome – except the Y chromosome. What happened? 🏺🧪 theconversation.com/modern-human...

Ghosts of extinct apes: Genomic insights into African hominid evolution 🏺🧪 Robert A. Foley, Marta Mirazón Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/ecolo... Despite African ape lineages originating 6–12 mya, diversity within the living species is very young (<1 mya).

The male Y chromosome in humans is evolving faster than the X. Scientists have now discovered the same trend in six species of primate. Y chromosome is evolving faster than the X 🏺🧪 www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

The complete sequence and comparative analysis of ape sex chromosomes 🏺🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41... These reference assemblies are expected to inform human evolution and conservation genetics of non-human apes, all of which are endangered species.

"I could never have prepared myself for this animal that was so human in some respects but so different as well. I was astounded." Join Talking Apes for a journey to the heart of the savanna & explore the world of chimps 🏺🧪 with Dr. Jill Pruetz @jilldpruetz.bsky.social talkingapes.org/posts/jill/

Humans and other primates live longer and reproduce less often than other mammals of similar body mass. What is the cause of these long lives? Maternal care leads to the evolution of long, slow lives 🏺🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

It is hard to know what babies are conscious of. But new research suggesting they perceive the world consciously could change how we care for them. Evidence of consciousness in newborns has implications for their care 🏺🧪 www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

☀️ Good Monday morning!

Looking at my TL from last night and I'm thinking you @erinbiba.bsky.social (and maybe a whole bunch of ppl! ) could use this...

🏺🧪 This...

Don’t Use AI Art In Science Communication When You Can Support Actual Scientifically Literate Artists Challenge 2024

#FossilFriday A valuable and notable food source, horses were immortalized in cave drawings, most notably in Lascaux. But even older artists depicted horses... The Vogelherd Horse: The World’s Oldest Known Horse Carving From 32,000 Years Ago 🏺🧪 mymodernmet.com/vogelherd-ho...

How Denisovans thrived on top of the world: Mysterious ancient humans’ survival secrets revealed 🏺🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41... The cave-dwelling group hunted animals such as hyenas and hares to sustain themselves in harsh environments.

Xujiayao Homo: A New Form of Large Brained Hominin in Eastern Asia 🏺🧪 paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph... These fossils may represent a new form of large brained hominin (Juluren) that was widespread throughout much of eastern Asia during the late Quaternary.

Middle and Late Pleistocene Denisovan subsistence at Baishiya Karst Cave 🏺🧪 Huan Xia, @geoffreymsmith.bsky.social , JJ Hublin et al www.nature.com/articles/s41... Sheds light on behaviour of Denisovans and adaptations to diverse and fluctuating environments of eastern Eurasia.

Genome-wide association mapping for growth rate at fluctuating and extreme temperatures 🏺🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Possible fitness trade-offs and genetic constraints underlying thermal adaptation and how they affect species ability to confront climatic changes

An out-of-Africa story in our DNA Humans have migrated from low latitudes to high latitudes, from tropical and temperate to colder zones The FTO variant with enhanced UCP1 expression is linked to human migration out of Africa 🏺🧪 academic.oup.com/lifemeta/adv...

Is "race" a scientific concept? What about "population"? Watch an informative interview with Dr. Christopher Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social covering these topics and more on human evolution. The Past and Future of Human Evolution 🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glvb...

#270 Christopher Stringer: The Past and Future of Human Evolutionwww.youtube.com YouTube video by The Dissenter

Pangenomes at the limits of evolution 🧪 Joanna M. Wolfe @jopabinia.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... The presence of almost one-third of genes can be reliably inferred, indicating a surprising amount of predictable evolution.

☀️ Good morning! Frustrated with humanity? You’re not alone—and that’s a good thing www.fastcompany.com/91153503/fru...

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It is powerful and important. I hope the entire @nytimes.com politics desk and the newsroom editorial hierarchy takes it to heart.

this is powerful, whatever else you think about the paper of record. i suggest skipping the sniping and just embracing and sharing this widely.

Opinion | Donald Trump Is Unfit to Leadwww.nytimes.com He failed the tests of leadership and betrayed America. Voters must stand up to him in November.

Ecology not genetics explains correlated trait divergence during speciation 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Results shed light into transitions between phases of speciation by showing that environmental factors can promote population divergence

Ecology not genetics explains correlated trait divergence during speciationwww.biorxiv.org bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

Blumenbach’s Notion of Bildungstrieb By introducing the concept of Bildungstrieb —the formative drive— Romanticism set the stage for Darwin’s theory of evolution. How Romanticism Set the Stage for Darwin’s Theory of Evolution 🧪 www.thecollector.com/romanticism-...

Evolution acts on the organism as a whole youtube.com/watch?v=DT0T... Dr Denis Noble argues the scientific story of who we are is a reductionist, gene-centric model. Evolution May Be Purposeful And It’s Freaking Scientists Out 🧪 www.forbes.com/sites/andrea...

🎵 You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby 🎶 Lorenz’s classic ‘baby schema’: A useful biological concept? 🧪 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... This article critically reviews the state of the existing literature and evaluates the significance of the baby schema from an evolutionary perspective.