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The Center for Human Evolutionary Studies at Rutgers promotes & supports research grounded in evolutionary theory & explores what it means to be human.
New Brunswick, NJ
Joined April 2017
📢 The Fall 2025 CHES Lecture Series is here! Join us for an exciting lineup of talks exploring human evolution across time, space, and disciplines!!! 🗓 Fridays · 3:00 PM 📍 Ruth Adams Building, Room 001
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Many thanks to Dr. Isaac Ogloblin Ramirez, our new postdoctoral researcher in the @alma_lab_ru, for presenting his work on “Underwater micro-geoarchaeology! We loved having you share your work & a huge welcome to the CHES community!!!
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CHES at SCCS-NY 2025! 🌿🦧 Shout out to CHES members representing at the Student Conference on Conservation Science/New York, hosted by the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation at the AMNH. An inspiring weekend of science, mentorship, and community!
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💀 Thank you to Dr. Scott Williams @nyuniversity for such a great visit and launching our Fall 2025 CHES Lecture Series with a fascinating talk on Sahelanthropus tchadensis and the evolution of bipedalism!!! . #CHES #HumanEvolution #Paleoanthropology
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🐒 A huge thanks to Dr. Eduardo Fernandez-Duque (Yale University) for joining us for an insightful talk, “Titi and owl monkey fathers: A life-long perspective on the evolution of paternal care.” We enjoyed having you with us and learning more about your research!!! #CHES
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Congrats to @will_aguado and team on the publication of his first dissertation chapter focusing on the importance of a single plant species to the #Tuanan #orangutan diet. https://t.co/1rDA75WiIs
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Be it feast or famine, orangutans adapt with flexible diets "Great apes native to the rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia, orangutans are marvels of adaptation to the vagaries of food supply in the wild." @vogel_erin
https://t.co/8WoLlzfRym
phys.org
Humans could learn a thing or two from orangutans when it comes to maintaining a balanced, protein-filled diet. Great apes native to the rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia, orangutans are marvels...
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Check out this new article by Dr. Nate Dominy & colleagues featuring our own CHES director @vogel_erin, showing how fermented fruit foraging in apes may have shaped human alcohol metabolism! Shout out to our turbocharged ADH4 enzymes! 🍇🍺 https://t.co/uVMzjWOk5u
academic.oup.com
Abstract. Mounting evidence points to the importance of fermented fruits in the diets of tropical frugivores, especially African apes. But how has this fun
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Day of outreach at Bartle Elementary! CHES Director Dr. Erin Vogel and grad affiliates Natalie Robinson & Eva Hernandez-Janer shared some science and brought nh primate & hominin skulls to curious young learners. Always excited to share anthro in action! 🧠🦧 #CHESOutreach
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📢 Join us this Friday at 1 PM with #CHES lecture series speaker Dr. Rebecca Lewis, who will explore how male primates form social bonds, and why female agency is key to understanding their relationships. Don’t miss it! #Primates #HumanEvolution #BehavioralEcology
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🗣️ Join us for an exciting talk by Dr @corenapicella on the evolution of human cooperation, drawing on field data from Hadza hunter-gatherers of Tanzania! #HumanEvolution #Cooperation #BehavioralEcology
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Big thanks to Dr. Shara Bailey @sebailey_nyu for sharing her fascinating research on Neanderthals and the 'bushiness' of the human family tree through dental evidence! We enjoyed your visit! 🦷🦴 #HumanEvolution #Neanderthals #Dental #CHES
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🗣️ Congratulations to CHES alumni Briana Pobinar & Michael Pante on their recent paper published in Nature Communications titled "Hominin presence in Eurasia by at least 1.9 million years ago"! https://t.co/JN5ITc4MPm
nature.com
Nature Communications - When hominins dispersed into Eurasia is unclear. Here, the authors present multiple cut-marked bones from Grăunceanu, Romania dated to at least 1.95 million years ago...
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📢 Join us next Friday at 1 PM with #CHES lecture series speaker Dr. Teresa Steele, who will discuss how Middle Stone Age innovations in Africa reveal early human behavior, cognition, and cultural connections across diverse environments. Don’t miss it! #Archaeology #HumanOrigins
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📢Announcing our #CHESSpeakerSeries for the Spring 2025 Semester! Please share with your evolution colleagues in the tristate area and DM us for more info! 💀🦧🧬
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Congratulations to CHES Grad affiliate Natalie Robinson for her new publication which has been published in Folia Primatologica as part of a special issue on Conserving Primates through Conservation Education and Outreach. 👏🏽 https://t.co/XmOe2BEQiT
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Congratulations to CHES faculty member Dr. Craig Feibel & research team that published an article in Science offering new insights into early human interactions and mobility of H erectus & P boisei. #HumanEvolution #FossilFinds @EMSWHatala @kevinhatala
https://t.co/AUHfb6rWlV
apnews.com
Muddy footprints left on a Kenyan lakeside suggest two of our early human ancestors were neighbors some 1.5 million years ago.
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📢 Join us this Friday at 1pm with #CHES lecture series speaker Dr. Gilbert Tostevin where they will discuss how cultural transmission, a-DNA, and stone tools from the Initial Upper Paleolithic inform about Neanderthal hybridization! #Geoarcheology We hope to see you there!
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