Christopher M. Smith
@csmithbioanth
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Postdoctoral Fellow @AMNH | Evolutionary Anatomist👂 🧠💀 | Board Certified Medical Illustrator
New York, NY
Joined January 2011
The human evolutionary story is full of oddities, and the Paranthropus group is extra fascinating! Today, we present new insights into their inner ear indicating that one species -Paranthropus robustus- may have indeed been doing something different! 1/5🧵.
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RT @finestone_emma: Excited to be a co-author on our new article “The First Million Years of Technology: The Lomekwian and the Early Oldowa….
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RT @TaliaMLM: The final chapter of my PhD is finally published today in Nature Ecology and Evolution! Extremely proud of this culmination o….
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Nature Ecology & Evolution - The extant avian sternum is highly adapted to powered flight, but understanding of its early evolution is hindered by patchy fossil representation and the fact that...
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RT @tetaneuron: New paper today about the evolution of the wrist along the dinosaur to bird transition: a bird-like configuration appeared….
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Nature - The forelimbs of two Late Cretaceous theropod dinosaurs show the presence of the pisiform bone, previously thought to have been lost early in theropod evolution and regained in birds...
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RT @howbrainsevolve: 'Embodied cognitive evolution and the limits of convergence' - paper by Louise Barrett and me just out: .
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RT @TimSmit02313649: New special issue scrutinizes the roles of cartilage in cranial development. .
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Just wrapped up an amazing few days at @MassEyeAndEar for the International Otopathology Society meeting. Grateful for the insights, connections, and inspiration!
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RT @bragaparanthrop: A study of infant fossils from Ethiopia and South Africa reveals that facial differences among….
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Nature Communications - Craniofacial development and structure in early Pleistocene Homo is unclear due to a lack of well-preserved specimens. Here, the authors examine infant craniofacial fossils...
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RT @NeilShubin: New paper from the lab: Our teeth arose as sensory organs on the outside of the body of ancient jawless fish.!! Congrats to….
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Anyone who has ever squirmed through a dental cleaning can tell you how sensitive teeth can be. This sensitivity gives important feedback about temperature, pressure—and yes, pain—as we bite and chew...
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RT @tetaneuron: Glad to share a new paper led by @yara_haridy and @NeilShubin Lab on the early evolution of teeth! Modern and fossil data p….
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Nature - Re-examination of the presumed Cambrian fossil fish Anatolepis reveals previous misidentification of aglaspidid sensory structures as dentine, a vertebrate sensory tissue, showing it to be...
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RT @Samar__Syeda: Excited for our work exploring behavioural diversity in South African hominins to be out today!.
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Phalangeal bone structure provides evidence for variable locomotor strategies across South African fossil hominins.
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RT @AnatomyOrg: Now is the time to share your interests and suggestions for programming! The pre-proposal deadline is just one week away.📨….
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RT @MPI_EVA_Leipzig: Different ways of ‘getting a grip’. How ancient human relatives in South Africa used their #hands reveals varying leve….
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RT @AlmecijaSergio: In 2 weeks: @AMNH , James Arthur Lecture, by Chris Kuzawa. "Food for Thought: How our Energy-Hungry Brains Shaped the….
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RT @AgneseLanzetti: Check out the latest paper on a weird jawless fossil fish, and this time we were able to recreate a full 3D model! Than….
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RT @DemingYang: 20 years ago, on April 22, 2005, Misha the zoo elephant was moved from Vallejo, CA to Salt Lake City, UT. Her relocation in….
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Communications Biology - Comparisons of 87Sr/86Sr data from the tusk and molar enamel of a zoo elephant suggest that a microsampling-modeling workflow is the best practice strategy for geospatial...
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RT @AnatomyOrg: 🎨🧠New Inspiring Scientific Curiosity & Discovery webinar!.Join Jill Gregory on April 23 at noon to explore the legal + eth….
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Grateful to Dr. Jasmine Pan and @CommsBio for the opportunity to share my journey of using art as a gateway into science. It was a pleasure to discuss how creativity can shape and enhance scientific exploration!.
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Communications Biology - In this Q&A, Christopher Smith, Postdoctoral Fellow at the American Museum of Natural History, discusses his journey from medical illustration to evolutionary...
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RT @BeaudetAmelie: 🚨 New publication alert! Check out my latest paper in the Bulletin de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris where I review….
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RT @cerrito_paola: Fully funded PhD position on Hominin Life History Evolution available in my new lab @UZH_en .Please retweet!.Link: https….
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I'm excited to share that next fall, I'll be joining the faculty @FairfieldU as an Asst Prof in Biology! 🦌. I'm deeply grateful for my time @AMNH and as part of the Bio Anth Lab. I look forward to continuing and expanding on these collaborations in this next chapter! 💀👂🧠.
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