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📢 Seems like as good a day as any to announce our new website!🍾 (completely unrelated to our new Science paper, of course) ½ thepeergroup.org.uk science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…)

Evolutionary simplification in the human larynx enabled the increased acoustic complexity required by human speech, a new Science study finds, suggesting that this change represented a crucial evolutionary step toward enabling human spoken language. fcld.ly/ofh6sqo

New paper and for once it’s not on bones! We show how a simplification of the human larynx underlies our ability to speak: science.org/doi/epdf/10.11… It’s been such a privilege to work with Takeshi Nishimura, Jake Dunn (he/him), and the rest of this fantastic group

Simplification underlies communicative complexity - evolution really is poetic! "Evolutionary loss of complexity in human vocal anatomy as an adaptation for speech" by a fantastic team including Jake Dunn (he/him) and Jaap Saers science.org/doi/epdf/10.11…

The Cambridge University Biological Anthropology Seminar Series is back! 🎉🎉🎉 Join us tomorrow for the first seminar of the series with @Edgard_Camaros at 16:30 (UK time) Register here ➡️ cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regist… Cambridge Archaeology Jaap Saers Dr Ashleigh Wiseman Edwin de Jager

Don’t miss this week’s Cambridge University Biological Anthropology Seminar ☠️‘Primate responses to death: insights into death awareness’☠️ with Alecia Carter Register here ➡️ cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regist… CambridgeBioAnth Cambridge Archaeology Jaap Saers Dr Ashleigh Wiseman Edwin de Jager

What kind of primates have arms 1.5x longer than their legs, sing beautiful duets that carry for miles, and are known for being especially funky? October 24th is #InternationalGibbonDay!

Join us tomorrow for another Cambridge University BioAnth Seminar with Dr Fernando Ramirez Rozzi who will be discussing ‘Biological diversity among modern humans’ Register here ➡️ cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regist… CambridgeBioAnth @MartaMLahr Jaap Saers Dr Ashleigh Wiseman Edwin de Jager

The rumors are true: I will teach Bayes & causal inf again starting in Jan 2023. Online, flipped format. Sign-ups end of this month. Mammals at MPI-EVA Leipzig and iDiv Biodiversity Research will get first pass. Then I'll open up to all. Last year's course: github.com/rmcelreath/sta…

📢📢This week we are honoured to have Habiba C. give at talk at the Cambridge University BioAnth Seminar on ‘Inferring the evolution of skeletal gracility in hominins and extant mammals’. Register here ➡️ cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regist… CambridgeBioAnth @MartaMLahr Lucia Nadal Edwin de Jager

Please join us next Thursday at 4:30p.m. to learn about “The Origin of Our Species” from Prof. Chris Stringer. Register for the talk on our website: archaeology.uk.com Chris Stringer Cambridge Archaeology Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology @WrldOfPaleoAnth CambridgeBioAnth

📢📢This week we are very excited to host Prof. Leslea J. Hlusko at the Cambridge University BioAnth Seminar on ‘The recently discovered ties between teeth and infants in human evolution’. Register here ➡️ cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regist… CambridgeBioAnth Dr Ashleigh Wiseman Lucia Nadal Edwin de Jager

New research from Jaap Saers, @JayTStock, et al, shows that brain development in humans & other primates is closely linked to skeletal development, a finding that creates completely new options for studying the evolution and development of the human brain. ssc.uwo.ca/news/2022/bone…

Just got home after spending two brilliant weeks in the hominin vault at Wits. Biggest highlights were being able to StW 431 while sitting next to Little Foot and getting a tour of Kromdraai from Bernhard Zipfel and Dr Kim Tommy