Talgai was the first ancient human skull found in Australia. It was discovered in 1884 eroding from a billabong in southern Queensland. Known for its robust features, Talgai is the only Australian terminal Pleistocene skull not found in the southeast. #FossilFriday The heavily

Time to update the textbooks. And its about time to assign a binomial nomenclature name to this lineage - we should no longer consider them ghosts!

Amazing: Babies are more attentive to face-like stimuli than non-face stimuli - even before they’re born. https://t.co/w3f7KN0EG1

Aliens like... A fossil of a sea lily that is approximately 345 million years old

“Evidence for Endogenous Collagen in Edmontosaurus Fossil Bone” by Lucien Tuinstra, Brian Thomas, Steven Robinson, Krzysztof Pawlak, Gazmend Elezi, Kym Francis Faull and Stephen Taylor, 17 January 2025, Analytical Chemistry. https://t.co/r1XvJBjxRh

Mesozoic dinosaur collagen found in fossilized bones. The paper in Analytical Chemistry hints that DNA might be available too. https://t.co/1HMrcV8dhM

New paper out with insights into kinship, alloparenting, and cooperative breeding! Older, closely related kin more often provide costly aid to young Tsimane, while unrelated alloparents provide older youth lower-cost - possible investment in future reciprocal relationships.

For all my students who wrote essays on bipedalism and had to come up with non-primate examples:

It was a really sweet celebration of John's memory and legacy. He was a dear friend and I sure do miss him!

I'm amazed by how the sky place has come alive. As someone who was mostly attracted to "academic twitter" it was sad to see the waining intellectual activity on this site. Its now evident that this place has sunsetted for smart academic conversation and its moved over there.

The article mentions that this is not the first time monkeys escaped from this research center:

Needles with eyes emerged during the paleolithic approximately 40,000 years ago. Great review on the evolution of dress. https://t.co/WvxYzTgtQ8

We sent a chimpanzee into space before we knew chimpanzees used tools in the wild! Astonishing how little we knew of the world until recently. In 1961 the first ape, a chimp named Ham, was sent into space, just a few months after Jane Goodall made her first trip to study

@harpersnotes from Jongema, 2012. List of edible insects of the world

related: Yang et al. 2014 Proteomics evidence for kefir dairy in Early Bronze Age China https://t.co/TalaB2bKtQ Zhang et al. 2021 The genomic origins of the Bronze Age Tarim Basin mummies https://t.co/HZtB3yqcV9

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Evolution of probiotic bacteria studied using DNA from 3,600-year-old cheese found in Chinese graves. Samples contained bacteria & fungus, including Lactobacillus kefiranofaciens and Pichia kudriavzevii, both still found in present-day kefir grains used to make cheese from milk.

Showed my bioanth class this video of how chicha is made (from sweet manioc & plantain). I believe these are Kichwa from the Sarayacu river region of the Ecuadorian amazon. The role of saliva in this chicha making process is common throughout the Amazon. https://t.co/NzWouXc3xd

Apropos to my lecture from today about the role of alpha-amylase in saliva for converting starches to sugars, and for making a mash of yucca more easily fermentable: https://t.co/BP4UYWCOch

“My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.” Charles Darwin