Primate Paleontologist, Former Midwesterner, Chicago Cubs/Bears/Bulls/'Hawks fan, Blue Devil, Music Lover, Daddy
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5 Feb 2017
I'm Chris, an #Actuallivingscientist studying Primate Evolution by looking for fossils and comparing their anatomy to living animals.
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For over 100 years, vertebrate fossils have been collected on and off at Ramnagar, J&K, India. In all that time, the stratigraphy and geochronology of the area have never been satisfactorily documented beyond a generaly correlation to the Chinji Fm. of the Potwar Plateau...
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The punchline: the earliest primate bearing deposits, including the great ape Sivapithecus, can likely be constrained to ~12.9-13.0 Ma, up to 200 thousand years older than previously known, thereby establishing a new FAD for this iconic taxon.
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Thanks to all of my coauthors...truly a team effort led by Leakey and Nat Geo Baldwin Fellow Deepak!! @birenapatel @cj_campisano @danpeppe @TheLeakeyFndtn @NatGeo journals.plos.org/plosone/ar…
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19 Apr 2025
Just received this in the mail...the 4th edition of of PA&E is finally out! All chapters have been updated through 2024 as much as possible. Figures and tables are (hopefully) much improved. Order your copy for Fall courses and your bookshelves today!!
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7 Jan 2025
Our latest paper presenting further analyses on Kapi ramnagarensis is now published. With Alejandra Ortiz, @kpewpew @cj_campisano @birenapatel Ningthoujam Premjit Singh, John Fleagle, and Rajeev Patnaik
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kOdx…
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7 Jan 2025
If AJBA is owned by our society rather than Wiley, that might still be an option, otherwise maybe Paleoanthropology and other journals will take the place of JHE. Maybe University publishing houses will start journals that take the place of Elsevier et al. (I hope)?
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7 Jan 2025
In any case, it is a sad end to JHE. Again, as a former AE, frequent author, and even more frequent reviewer, I will miss it dearly. In the meantime, I am proud of the last couple of papers we are publishing there, including this follow-up to our discovery of Kapi. Onward!
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6 Jan 2024
This has to be a tie between Hurricane and Isis. Although as an album, Blood on the Tracks is better start to finish, IMHO. Unpopular take: Could’ve been a bit lighter on all the violin on Desire. Love it at first, but starts to get grating as it goes on.
5 Jan 2024
48 years ago, on January 5, 1976, Bob Dylan released the album "Desire". Which track is your favorite?
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4 Jan 2024
Our colleague @Julia_Zichello is out with a really cool new study on the evolution of U.S. starlings compared to the native European populations! Will be using this as a nice illustration of recent evolution alongside the Grant's studies in ANTHP 101! nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
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30 Nov 2023
Congrats to Dr. Baden, Dr. Junge, and team!! @HunterPMELLab
30 Nov 2023
So great to see @ColumbusZoo and @TheWilds partner with Prof. @andreabaden to research and protect lemurs! columbuszoo.org/ranomafana-r…
@gccunyanthro @Hunter_College
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17 Oct 2023
Great new paper on the newly reconstructed Pierolapithecus face! Confirms likely stem hominid status for Pierolapithecus and provides implications for the ancestral great ape morphotype. Congrats @kpewpew @AlmecijaSergio @ashleyshammond and coauthors!!
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.22…
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14 Sep 2023
30 years! What a phenomenal album....one of my absolute favorites. Beautiful from start to finish. Nothing better to listen to when feeling a little down or just enjoying a chilly fall day....except possibly Recovering the Satellites (1996), which may even be better.
14 Sep 2023
Happy 30th anniversary to one of the greatest autumn albums of all time.
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