Yemane G. Tsige
Evolutionary anthropology PhD Candidate @asubeinghuman.bsky.social & @asuiho.bsky.social affiliated | Hominin Paleobiology, Functional morphology, Paleoecology, Evolution & Ecology
- The range of diverse habitats with which eastern African #Paranthropus can now be associated shows that this suggested adaptive niche did not restrict its ability to disperse as widely as species of Australopithecus and early Homo. 🔗https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09826-x
- Check out this new digest paper published in @journal-evo.bsky.social presenting how Malagasy #lemurs cranial shape evolution is influenced by their body size. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/evol...
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- Reposted by Yemane G. TsigeNew post by me on #MITPressReader @mitpress.bsky.social On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’). thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...
- Reposted by Yemane G. TsigeChallenging the name! Jesse Martin & colleagues argue Little Foot (StW 573) can’t be called Australopithecus prometheus… …dissent in the fossil world 🦴😅😁 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- Reposted by Yemane G. TsigeA paper in Nature shows that a 3.4-million-year-old partial foot found in Ethiopia in 2009 belongs to an ancient human relative named Australopithecus deyiremeda, a more primitive species of Australopithecus than the famous ‘Lucy’ (A. afarensis). go.nature.com/49BkCZY 🏺 🧪
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- Ethiopian volcano erupts for first time in 12,000 years 🔗 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n.... A #volcano in #Ethiopia has erupted for the first time in nearly 12,000 years, sending thick plumes of smoke up to 9 miles (14km) into the sky, and across the Red Sea toward #Yemen and #Oman.
- “When am I ever going to use this?” The real answer #students need to hear 🔗 substack.com/home/post/p-...
- Eating #carrion may have made us human: The importance of #scavenging in our evolution 🔗 phys.org/news/2025-10...
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- Selective use of distant stone resources by the earliest #Oldowan toolmakers 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- New discoveries of #Australopithecus and #Homo from #Ledi-Geraru, Ethiopia 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- The radiation and geographic expansion of #primates through diverse climates 🔗 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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[Not loaded yet] - Reposted by Yemane G. TsigeAnthropology collections manager job at the AMNH @amnh.org in New York! Additional info: A PhD (or PhD candidacy) is required to apply. Prior training in collections management and databases is essential. This is not a research position. Salary range $93-98k/year. careers.amnh.org/postings/4509
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- A look at the EDJ of the #teeth of ancient #Egyptians suggests that foraging people were replaced by farmers during the 6th millennium BCE, rather than taking up farming themselves. Some foragers persisted in #Sudan. 🔗 ow.ly/MJEz50VvMGU
- Reposted by Yemane G. TsigeInterested in ancient food webs? Check out our new study on the paleoecology of the Pliocene large carnivore guild at Hadar (Lower Awash Valley, Ethiopia): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Why #Africans should be telling the story of human origins 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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- Running performance in Australopithecus afarensis 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Yemane G. TsigeAn open-access collection of early fossil hominin scans from Swartkrans, South Africa was recently published in the journal PaleoAnthropology by Skinner et al. Both Paranthropus robustus & early Homo are represented in the assemblage. paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph... 🏺🧪🦣 #paleoanthropology
- New evidence suggests early human ancestor presence in #Eurasia by at least 2 Mya Curran et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- The question of human dominance over the planet has long intrigued scientists and philosophers alike. Recently, #ThomasMorgan, an evolutionary anthropologist @asuiho.bsky.social, proposed a fascinating hypothesis to explain why humans rule the world. 🔗 news.asu.edu/20241107-hea...
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- Ancient #footprints capture #coexistence of two kinds of human ancestor 🔗 www.science.org/content/arti...
- “Analyses showed that the #footprints were made by individuals with different gaits and stances, and the authors hypothesize these to be #Homo erectus and #Paranthropus boilei. “ 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- “Variation among species in brain size is associated with body mass differences but not time.” 🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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- “Much about the #human evolutionary story has changed over the past century, but one reality has not. Despite crucial developments in molecular & primatological studies, fossils & their context remain the primary evidence for understanding our origins.” 🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/....
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- #Ethiopian wolves reported to feed on #nectar for the first time. Researchers have documented Ethiopian wolves consuming nectar from red hot poker flowers, marking the first recorded instance of a large carnivore species feeding on floral nectar. 🔗 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
- Meet #Lucy, the celebrity of fossils, who changed our view of evolution - @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/science/inte...
- " #African scholars were never part of telling the human story; nor could they actively #participate in the analysis of the fossils they found. Up to the 1990s, long after #Lucy was found, we were only present in the form of labourers and fossil hunters." 🔗 theconversation.com/fifty-years-...
- Punctuated equilibrium at 50: Anything there for evolutionary anthropology? Yes; definitely 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- ‘Deep inside, something told me I had found the earliest human ancestor; I went numb’ – #YohannesHaile-Selassie on his lifetime quest to discover ancient humanity 🔗 theconversation.com/deep-inside-...
- Ancient human ancestor #Lucy was not alone — she lived alongside at least 4 other proto-human species, emerging research suggests. 📎 www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
