Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias
@padillaccc
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Research Fellow @EEG_Cam & @EmmaCambridge | Public Scholars Fellow @SAPIENS_org ✍🏽| Book Review Editor @ISHE_society 🌻| Editor, Hunter Gatherer Research
Zurich, Switzerland
Joined October 2017
And with this piece on seasonality and how societies have always been much more fluid and flexible than we often think, my fellowship at Sapiens ends 😢 It's been a fantastic and fun learning experience - and I'm immensely grateful to the whole team 🥰 https://t.co/0SZP9AvOsD
sapiens.org
An anthropologist chronicles radical changes foragers undertake seasonally—and how the rigidity of industrialized societies is an anomaly.
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Some additional thoughts on Yunxian, Homo longi, Denisovans, and sapiens origins
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A Crash Course In Human Evolution With Anthropologist Chris Stringer
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Great summary of the Paranthropus hand paper and its implications. One key message: should we be paying more attention to gorillas as a model for understanding early hominin movement?
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‘Paranthropus: The Forgotten Cousins of Humanity Who May Have Made the World’s First Tools’
zmescience.com
Our robust Paranthropus cousins thrived in Africa for a million and a half years, making stone tools and sharing the landscape with different Homo species at the dawn of human cultural innovation.
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#newpreprint: "Climate Shaped the Global Population Structure of Leopards and their Extinction in Europe" https://t.co/OaKCtcqBi2 massive congrats to Zhe Xue for leading it and to Ondra for the amazing picture!
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Svante Pääbo, father of paleogenetics: ‘The reason for the Neanderthals’ extinction lies in how numerous we’ve become’ | Science | EL PAÍS
english.elpais.com
The Nobel Prize winner in Medicine is investigating genetic changes that could have given our species a competitive advantage, and the possibility of extracting the genome of the Flores hobbit
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Great news!!
#ICTSNews Feliz de anunciar que organizaremos el Congreso de la Sociedad Europea para el estudio de la evolución humana @ESHE_society en #Burgos en 2026. Happy to announce that we will organize the @ESHE_society congress in #Burgos 2026. @CENIEH #Burgos2031
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https://t.co/WLTUtLYUpG I think the best pop-sci explanation of the Yunxian study I’ve read so far!
newscientist.com
The shared ancestor of our species, the Neanderthals and the Denisovans may be far older than we thought – which could completely change our understanding of humanity's evolution
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Original Article: https://t.co/OpsMoKRsm1 Figure: https://t.co/uZx50UTSRB Related: Natural Selection in Modern Humans
stevestewartwilliams.com
Three generations of selection against educational attainment in the US
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Would love to hear/read thoughts (beyond mainstream media) about the Yunxian paper (esp in relation to the recent papers on the paleoproteomics and mtDNA of Harbin). Exact dates aside, do we need to ask new questions about how members of these clades behaved/ were differentiated?
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Chris Stringer discusses the 1 million year old Yunxian cranium https://t.co/Bhglm8VTe1 via @YouTube
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Really important paper for Homo sapiens origins out! 🤩
The phylogenetic position of the Yunxian cranium elucidates the origin of Homo longi and the Denisovans | Science
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Fun language model approach to modeling health, with application to the UK Biobank. "Learning the natural history of human disease with generative transformers" https://t.co/FKxsVXreRB
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@MGurven Little update: We've already found a reviewer for this book, but we are still looking for someone to write a review of this other fantastic book: https://t.co/iA05vDEWVZ Same procedure - drop me a message for details 🤗
press.princeton.edu
How the science of evolution explains how everything came to be, from bacteria and blue whales to cell phones, cities, and artificial intelligence
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1/3 New recommendation: @Miranda_A_Evans (2025) The Demodifier: a tool for screening modification-induced alternate peptide taxonomy in palaeoproteomics. ver. 4 recommended by @PCI_Archaeology
https://t.co/Ewxg3j2JpA
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I am looking for someone to review @MGurven's new book, "Seven decades" for the journal Human Ethology. It looks terribly interesting! DM/email me if you're interested for details (and to get a hard copy 😊) https://t.co/dWCCvkDOjt
press.princeton.edu
An anthropologist uncovers new evidence for the evolutionary origins of human longevity—and explains why growing old is an opportunity, not a burden
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🎉New pre-print!🎉 “Our findings represent the most robust evidence to date that evolutionary psychiatry offers normalising causal stories with various positive effects, in this case by casting anxiety as a calibrated defence system that can overshoot in contemporary contexts."
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Our new paper is out: Sulfur as a proxy for identifying coast-inland human mobility in Northern Iberia during Late Prehistory #stableisotopes
https://t.co/gB9cd16BGk
journals.plos.org
Population movements constitute a significant driver of cultural change in prehistoric societies. In recent years, sulfur isotopes have emerged as a valuable approach for distinguishing human/animal...
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@ScienceMagazine There are at least three papers recently published that strongly contest the claim made in this paper, each drawing on a different evidence https://t.co/rT8CusJdbU
https://t.co/PnLr4NRSY4
https://t.co/A07tY5tqGp
biorxiv.org
I present phlash, a new Bayesian method for inferring population history from whole genome sequence data. phlash is p opulation h istory l earning by a veraging s ampled h istories: it works by...
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Between 800,000 and 900,000 years ago, the population of human ancestors crashed, a 2023 Science study finds. The results suggest there were only ~1280 breeding individuals during the transition between the early and middle Pleistocene. https://t.co/vy25Wy1ryF
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