Paleoanthropologist, human evolution, Neanderthals, modern human origins, S-E Europe and Greece. Dog enthusiast! Professor, University of Tübingen, Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironments. Opinions my own.
Herzlichen Glückwunsch! 👏 Katerina Harvati vom Institut für Naturwissenschaftliche #Archäologie und dem #Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment wird mit dem Albert Einstein World Award for Science 2026 des World Cultural Council ausgezeichnet: 👉 uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet/…
✨Great to see our recent article on evolutionary drivers of encephalization and facial reduction in the genus Homo featured by our local press 😀 www.swp.de/lokales/tueb...
Studie der Universität Tübingen: Wie sich menschliche Schädel wirklich entwickeltenGrößeres Gehirn, kleineres Gesicht: Die menschliche Evolution verlief anders als gedacht. Eine neue Studie der Universität Tübingen und der University of Tennessee in Knoxville stellt langjährige Anna...www.swp.de
"Under the rule, destroying an endangered species’ nest or habitat would no longer be considered illegal." nyti.ms/4hch5F3
Trump, Ending Decades of Protection, Opens Wild Habitats to Drilling and Mining (Gift Article)The rule change ends a safeguard that had been in place for 50 years and could hasten the demise of imperiled animals.nyti.ms
Exploring Uluzzian Lithic Technology at Klissoura Cave 1, Greece🏺🧪 Giulia Marciani, @katharv.bsky.social et al link.springer.com/article/10.1... Uluzzian technocomplex 43–39 Kya marks one of the earliest dispersals of Homo sapiens into Europe and onset of the Upper Palaeolithic in the Mediterranean
🚨Our new article in the series of papers on the paleoenvironment of the Middle Pleistocene Megalopolis Basin (Greece) is now published! Congratulations to Ines Bludau and team!✨🎉 #openaccess #humanevolution @sgn.one @dfg.de @erc.europa.eu @humanorigins.bsky.social
Drilling the Marathousa palaeo‐lake in Greece (Peloponnese): inferring the environmental context of a Middle Pleistocene archaeological siteThe Megalopolis Basin is located in the central Peloponnese (Greece), a region that is situated along one of the primary Pleistocene biogeographical corridors for intracontinental hominin migration. ....onlinelibrary.wiley.com
📣 #Forschungsnews: Größeres Gehirn, kleineres Gesicht – statt kontinuierlicher natürlicher Selektion prägten neutrale evolutionäre Prozesse, Stasis sowie biologische und ökologische Einschränkungen die Entwicklung. Kulturelle Innovationen erlaubten größere Evolutionssprünge. 👉 https://sgn.one/ohq
Evolutionary drivers of encephalization and facial reduction in the genus Homo🏺🧪 Mark Hubbe & Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... Highlighting the importance of environmental constraints and possibly cultural behaviors as core drivers of human evolution.
✨Wonderful news from our diamond open access, community owned PaleoAnthropology journal! 🎉
PaleoAnthropology JournalThe PaleoAnthropology journal is pleased to announce that we have been selected for inclusion in the Directory of Open Access Journals! For more information see here: doaj.org/toc/1545-0031
Nice write-up of the recent paper by Hubbe and Harvati (2026) ✨️💀🧠 #humanevolution
Michael MarshallWe often assume that natural selection favoured intelligence and big brains, but this might not be true at all - @newscientist.com https://www.newscientist.com/article/2532890-human-brains-may-have-got-bigger-for-no-particular-reason/
