What if a distant branch of our evolutionary family had survived?

My first film starts with Sahelanthropus fossils, then explores an explicitly imagined alternative history.

AI-assisted living scenes; synthetic narration.
youtu.be/uGrO-vKzHIY
#HumanOrigins #AlternateHistory

What can a thigh bone reveal about walking six million years ago?

I made a film about Orrorin, fossil evidence and the uncertainty around early bipedalism.

AI-assisted speculative living scenes; synthetic narration.
youtu.be/doSD9wYNKSs
#HumanOrigins #Paleoanthropology

What's your BIGGEST question about our shared #HumanOrigins?

LIVE and ZOOM
🌗Tues evening Oct 6 🌘
18:30 London time @UCL #Anthropology

Chris Knight and Camilla Power
'The sex-strike theory of human origins'

#humanorigins #femalecoalitions #symbolicculture

🏺🧪 🦣 Will absolutely be tuning in fo some of these excellent #HumanOrigins talks, hosted by one of my academic depts - online, open to all

This topic of self-medication, including in primates, is so interesting, and widely relevant to #HumanOrigins in giving us baselines in how other non-hominin species utilise plants, but in this case, while "putative" is in the title, I think more data needed

'The Revolutionary Origins of Language' has landed! Chris proudly shows off the first copy he got his hands on.
#humanorigins #thehumanrevolution #anthropology

'The Revolutionary Origins of Language' has landed! Chris proudly shows off the first copy he got his hands on.
#humanorigins #thehumanrevolution #anthropology

A Chinese quarry just gave Denisovans a home: bone tools, deer hunting, and up to 120,000 years of occupation—the first long, rich record #Denisovans #Archaeology #HumanOrigins #StoneAge

https://freegardner.com/sci_scout/quarry-reveals-denisovan-life-over-100000-years.html

Researchers have identified 25,000-year-old evidence of betel nut consumption among Ice Age foragers in Indonesia, pushing back the earliest confirmed human drug use by thousands of years.

#science #archaeology #humanorigins

China's Bianfu Cave holds the richest Denisovan fossil trove yet, with teeth, tools & butchered bones revealing how they lived 160,000 #Denisovans #Archaeology #HumanOrigins #Fossils

https://freegardner.com/sci_scout/yunnan-cave-yields-richest-denisovan-fossil-trove.html

#Archaeology #IrishArchaeology #Prehistory #Paleolithic #AncientIreland #CaveArt #HumanOrigins #IceAge #Ireland #ArchaeologyNews