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Professor of Human Evolution and Fellow of King's College Cambridge. Emeritus, so I now do the research there was never time to do before. Interested in anything evolutionary, from humans to lithics to ecology and stars.
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It was a wonderful day and so deserved. Very proud!
Fabulous news that @martamlahr.bsky.social has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy 🍾🍾🍾
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ICArCHEB in Portugal has put out a call for proposals for HEIRS (the Hub for Human Evolution Research Synthesis). HEIRS supports collaborative research projects designed to produce syntheses of important issues in the field. A wonderful opportunity - link below heirs.icarehb.com/calls-traini...
Proud dad post! Hugh Foley shortlisted for Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets, for his ‘Recent Poems’ michaelmarksawards.org/shortlist/hu...
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Call for Group Synthesis Project 2026 – heirs
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Okay. This is angering me. First of all, “MAN”!? We’re not in the nineteenth century FFS. There’s a better word and it is “Humans”. And secondly - who the f£&k thought HUMANS only learned to control fire 50,000 years ago???!!! www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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The joy of sorting LSA lithics from Turkana under the guidance of @robfoley.bsky.social Follow us on Instagram for more www.instagram.com/palaeotrails...
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The morphological affinities of the fossil cranium from Kabua, Kenya 🏺🧪 A M Bosman, @ltbuck.bsky.social, @martamlahr.bsky.social, @chrisbstringer.bsky.social, @katharv.bsky.social et al rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... Kabua 1's similarity to derived H. sapiens and date of 64.4 ± 5.4 ka.
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It's a bit late for #FossilFriday but I have to show this lovely young adult Palaeoloxodon (giant elephant) jaw from the new Middle Pleistocene site I'm working at in Turkana, Kenya!
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Episode 3 of our Ng'ipalajem video series with Justus Erus Edung, talking about the biggest discovery of his career, Kenyanthropus! Sehemu 3 ya video Ng'ipalajem na Justus Erus Edung anazungumza uguduzi mkuu wa maisha ya kazi yake, Kenyanthropus!
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Episode 2 of our Ng'ipalajem video series showing this summer's research! Today, I show some antelope teeth I'm using to understand paleoenvironments Sehemu 2 wa Ng'ipalajem video inaonyesha utafiti wa kiangazi hiki! Leo naonyesha meno wa nyumbu na swala ambayo natumia kwa kuelewa mazingira ya kale
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Groundbreaking find makes compelling case that humans were lighting fires much earlier than originally believed
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Man made fire 350,000 years earlier than previously thought, discovery in Suffolk suggests
Today was the ceremony for new fellows at the #BritishAcademy - it was wonderful 🤩. I am thrilled and so grateful to the colleagues who nominated me, elected me, and the many colleagues, students, friends, our kids & family, & specially Rob 😍 who have so enriched my life and career ❤️
Kaedan O'Brien, Ph.D.
Kaedan O'Brien, Ph.D.
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Justus Erus Edung was only 25 years old when he discovered Kenyanthropus platyops in a team led by Prof. Meave Leakey in 1999. This 3.5 million year old “flat-faced” skull quickly grabbed international headlines and changed the course of human evolution. #fossils #turkana #humanevolution
Episode 2: Faunal identification with @deadbovids.bsky.social Other than identification, tooth wear pattern can give us exciting insights into faunal diet and palaeoecology.
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