Yemane G. Tsige
@yemanetsige.bsky.social
Evolutionary anthropology PhD Candidate @asubeinghuman.bsky.social & @asuiho.bsky.social affiliated | Hominin Paleobiology, Functional morphology, Paleoecology
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New 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’).
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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...
December 1, 2025 at 5:56 PM
New 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...
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...
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Challenging 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/...
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/...
The StW 573 Little Foot Fossil Should Not Be Attributed to Australopithecus prometheus
Objectives To test the hypothesis that the StW 573 (Little Foot) fossil specimen should be attributed taxonomically to Australopithecus prometheus. Materials and Methods We adopt the methods of cl...
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December 1, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Challenging 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/...
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/...
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A 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 🏺 🧪
November 26, 2025 at 8:47 PM
A 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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The 3.4 million-year-old Burtele foot from Ethiopia had a grasping big toe & more flexible midfoot than seen in contemporaneous Australopithecus afarensis (Lucy's species). This suggested a mystery lineage parallel to A. afarensis. Now we might know who that foot belonged to. #paleoanthropology 🧪🏺
New finds shed light on diet and locomotion in Australopithecus deyiremeda - Nature
3.4-million-year-old hominin fossils discovered in Ethiopia provide insight into the diet and locomotion of Australopithecus deyiremeda.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The 3.4 million-year-old Burtele foot from Ethiopia had a grasping big toe & more flexible midfoot than seen in contemporaneous Australopithecus afarensis (Lucy's species). This suggested a mystery lineage parallel to A. afarensis. Now we might know who that foot belonged to. #paleoanthropology 🧪🏺
Ethiopian volcano erupts for first time in 12,000 years
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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.
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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.
Ethiopian volcano erupts for first time in 12,000 years
Ash clouds from Hayli Gubbi volcano sent drifting across the Red Sea toward Yemen and Oman
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November 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Ethiopian volcano erupts for first time in 12,000 years
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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.
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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
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November 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
“When am I ever going to use this?” The real answer #students need to hear
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Eating #carrion may have made us human: The importance of #scavenging in our evolution
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Eating carrion may have made us human: The importance of scavenging in our evolution
A recent study proposes a new paradigm for understanding the role of carrion in the subsistence of human populations throughout their evolution. Ana Mateos and Jesús Rodríguez, scientists at the Centr...
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October 22, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Eating #carrion may have made us human: The importance of #scavenging in our evolution
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Mongle, C.S., Orr, C.M., Tocheri, M.W. et al. New fossils reveal the hand of Paranthropus boisei. Nature (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...
New fossils reveal the hand of Paranthropus boisei - Nature
Analyses of newly discovered hand and foot bones of a Paranthropus boisei specimen provide insight into possible tool use and other palaeobiology characteristics among Plio-Pleistocene hominin species...
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October 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Mongle, C.S., Orr, C.M., Tocheri, M.W. et al. New fossils reveal the hand of Paranthropus boisei. Nature (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Selective use of distant stone resources by the earliest #Oldowan toolmakers
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August 16, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Selective use of distant stone resources by the earliest #Oldowan toolmakers
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New discoveries of #Australopithecus and #Homo from #Ledi-Geraru, Ethiopia
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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August 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
New discoveries of #Australopithecus and #Homo from #Ledi-Geraru, Ethiopia
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The radiation and geographic expansion of #primates through diverse climates
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The radiation and geographic expansion of primates through diverse climates | PNAS
One of the most influential hypotheses about primate evolution postulates that their
origin, radiation, and major dispersals were associated with e...
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August 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The radiation and geographic expansion of #primates through diverse climates
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Changes in diet drove physical evolution in early humans www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
Changes in diet drove physical evolution in early humans
A Dartmouth-led study shows that early humans developed a taste for grassy carbohydrate-rich plants 700,000 years before they evolved the ideal teeth to chew the tougher plant fibers efficiently. The ...
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August 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Changes in diet drove physical evolution in early humans www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
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Anthropology 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
Curatorial Associate
The American Museum of Natural History is one of the world’s preeminent scientific and cultural institutions, and has as its mission to discover, interpret and disseminate information about human cult...
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July 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Anthropology 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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Check out our new paper, led by former postdoc and current colleague Daniel Green on 18 Ma proteins in fossil teeth! Tim Cleland, a proteomics wizard, did the measurements. What's the take home? We hope to use protein fingerprints to study mammal and hominin phylogenetics! bit.ly/OldProteome
Eighteen million years of diverse enamel proteomes from the East African Rift - Nature
The isolation of dental proteins from fossils deposited 1.5 million to 18 million years ago in the Turkana Basin in Kenya, a tropical region, demonstrate the promise of dental enamel for palaeoproteom...
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July 9, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Check out our new paper, led by former postdoc and current colleague Daniel Green on 18 Ma proteins in fossil teeth! Tim Cleland, a proteomics wizard, did the measurements. What's the take home? We hope to use protein fingerprints to study mammal and hominin phylogenetics! bit.ly/OldProteome
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.
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April 9, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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.
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Interested 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...
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April 1, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Interested 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...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe phys.org/news/2025-03...
Genetic study reveals hidden chapter in human evolution
Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.
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March 18, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe phys.org/news/2025-03...
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🚨New article🚨Our #research on #elephant🐘and #strontium #isotopes in #teeth🦷is published with
@commsbio.bsky.social
We show how Sr is recorded in teeth and how we use such records to help reconstruct migration. @kevinuno.bsky.social @kpodkovyroff.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...
@commsbio.bsky.social
We show how Sr is recorded in teeth and how we use such records to help reconstruct migration. @kevinuno.bsky.social @kpodkovyroff.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Strontium isotope mapping of elephant enamel supports an integrated microsampling-modeling workflow to reconstruct herbivore migrations - Communications Biology
Comparisons of 87Sr/86Sr data from the tusk and molar enamel of a zoo elephant suggest that a microsampling-modeling workflow is the best practice strategy for geospatial reconstructions of seasonal m...
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February 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
🚨New article🚨Our #research on #elephant🐘and #strontium #isotopes in #teeth🦷is published with
@commsbio.bsky.social
We show how Sr is recorded in teeth and how we use such records to help reconstruct migration. @kevinuno.bsky.social @kpodkovyroff.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...
@commsbio.bsky.social
We show how Sr is recorded in teeth and how we use such records to help reconstruct migration. @kevinuno.bsky.social @kpodkovyroff.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...
January 31, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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An 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.
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#paleoanthropology
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#paleoanthropology
January 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
An 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...
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#paleoanthropology
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#paleoanthropology
New evidence suggests early human ancestor presence in #Eurasia by at least 2 Mya
Curran et al.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Curran et al.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Hominin presence in Eurasia by at least 1.95 million years ago - Nature Communications
When hominins dispersed into Eurasia is unclear. Here, the authors present multiple cut-marked bones from Grăunceanu, Romania dated to at least 1.95 million years ago and suggest hominins would have l...
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January 22, 2025 at 5:23 AM
New evidence suggests early human ancestor presence in #Eurasia by at least 2 Mya
Curran et al.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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.
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What makes human culture unique? | ASU News
Why is human culture — the shared body of knowledge passed down across generations — so much more powerful than animal cultures?“What’s special about our species?” is a question scientists have wrestl...
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December 13, 2024 at 12:04 AM
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.
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In southern Africa, grazing herbivores decline over the last 50 kyr, but regional pollen records show no change in grass abundance through time. How do we make sense of these patterns? Check out our new study led by postdoc Alex Norwood (Univ of Utah) in QSA:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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December 10, 2024 at 7:34 PM
In southern Africa, grazing herbivores decline over the last 50 kyr, but regional pollen records show no change in grass abundance through time. How do we make sense of these patterns? Check out our new study led by postdoc Alex Norwood (Univ of Utah) in QSA:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...