🚨Our newest paper on human brain evolution 🧠 ✅ This study reveals that brain expansion in hominins was primarily driven by within-species dynamics, with an accelerating trend in recent lineages! ⁦@oxford_anthro⁩ ⁦@ReadingBioSci⁩ pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.24…

📰🪶New paper out today in NatureClimateChange! Seabirds geographic ranges shrink as oceans rapidly warm and cool. The speed of climate change acts as a filter as only species with strong dispersal ability keep up. Remarkably, historical range shifts align closely with modern trends. Under the highest warming scenario, >70% of species are projected to contract their ranges and disperse even further by 2100. Crucially, our results show conservation can’t just protect where seabirds live today. We also need to safeguard the new areas they may need to move to in the future. @Seabirders @PacificSeabirds @SeabirdCentre Link to paper nature.com/articles/s41558-0…

90% of people are right-handed, and no other primate species comes close to this level of hand preference. A new Oxford-led study suggests the reason may lie in two defining features of human evolution: walking on two legs and the expansion of the human brain. More info ⬇️ ox.ac.uk/news/2026-05-15-why…

🦷🔬 Looking for PhD candidates with an engineering or a biological background. Fully funded PhD at @universitatURV on biomechanics & mechanical properties of vertebrate teeth with @FortunyPaleoBio ➡️Call opens in May here: urv.cat/en/research/support/… ➡️DM or email me for info.

RT @Qafzeh: Why is almost everyone right-handed? The answer may lie in how we learned to walk phys.org/news/2026-05-why-is…

Why 90% of Humans Share the Same Dominant Hand - Neuroscience News neurosciencenews.com/bipedal…

Why is almost everyone right-handed? We use data from ~2,000 individuals and 41 species to show that factors such as encephalization and bipedalism may explain why ox.ac.uk/news/2026-05-15-why…

Why do humans exhibit such a striking right-hand preference? We studied 41 anthropoid species, revealing #Homosapiens as an evolutionary outlier & identifying #bipedalism & #brain expansion as likely drivers of human lateralization @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4ufOvWJ

The Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene Lomekwi faunas, West Turkana, Kenya: systematics, paleoecology, and biochronology sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

Thrilled this paper is out! We describe the rich vertebrate fauna from Lomekwi, identifying 85 taxa. During the time of Kenyanthropus, there were megaherbivores 🦒🦛🐘, numerous artiodactyls, diverse carnivores, giant crocodiles, and multiple primates 
👉 authors.elsevier.com/c/1mHna…

📣Editor spotlight Dr. Hans Püschel is a Chilean vertebrate palaeontologist who specialises in the evolution & biogeography of South American mammals by combining cutting-edge computational methods and fieldwork. He is currently a PI at the Millennium Nucleus EVOTEM in Santiago.

2.75-million-year-old stone tools may mark a turning point in human evolution phys.org/news/2025-11-millio… via @physorg_com

Where primates evolved | Science Sessions | PNAS pnas.org/post/podcast/primat…

⁦@_martapina_⁩ mujer con ciencia mujeresconciencia.com/2025/0…

#ESHE2025 @ThomasPuschel 'The evolutionary singularity of human handedness’ Is human handedness exceptional? 87% R handed. Study: 2000 ind, 41 primate spp ONLY HUMANS have major handedness bias! Increase during human evolution No existing hypothesis best explains findings

🔓Now on Peeref: The radiation and geographic expansion of primates through diverse climates 🔗: peeref.com/works/86917264 👁️: Altmetric: 359 @avaria_jorge @ThomasPuschel @PNASNews

One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “The radiation and geographic expansion of primates through diverse climates.” Explore the article here: ow.ly/NHHF50WPbqy For more trending articles, visit ow.ly/illL50WPbqz.

Our primate ancestors evolved in the cold – not the tropics. Hot off the press: For @ConversationUK. #evolution #biogeography #climate #ClimateChange #anthropology #primatology #ecology #geography #fossil #fossils #FossilFriday #Primata #primate #primates theconversation.com/our-prim…

Thrilled to see our discovery featured in Reuters!

Reading announces big arctic monkeys news! ❄️🐒Research collaboration between @ThomasPuschel @oxford_anthro and @avaria_jorge @UniofReading finds that early primates evolved in cold, seasonal climates, not warm tropical forests. Read more: anthro.ox.ac.uk/article/earl…