Adam van Casteren
@AdamvanC
#AABA2024 Interested in apes, locomotion, morphology? Make sure not to miss the palaeoanth podium session this morning in Platinum C! I will be repping Dept. Human Origins @MPI_EVA_Leipzig @ 11.30 with the help of the beautiful Issa Valley chimps, see you there!
Why #humans have a smaller #face than #Neanderthals: In Homo sapiens, facial growth stops at #puberty. Study by @AlexandraSchuh & an intl. team, incl. Philipp Gunz, @jjhublin, Sarah Freidline in the Journal of Human Evolution. tinyurl.com/ywkvwvej & doi.org/10.1016/j.jhev…
"Engineering skills in the manufacture of tools by wild chimpanzees" cell.com/iscience/fullt… @oxford_anthro Alejandra Pascual-Garrido @MPI_EVA_Leipzig Adam van Casteren @iScience_CP
Not just any stick. #Chimpanzees understand material properties & choose just the right #tools for the job. New study in @iScience_CP by an intl. research team led by @RunnerApe & @AdamvanC. @UniofOxford @MPI_EVA_Leipzig tinyurl.com/59c2wff4 & doi.org/10.1016/j.isci…
Excited to share our latest paper, new in @ScienceMagazine : science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… #ScienceResearch
Interested in sedaDNA, aDNA, or forensic genetics? Join me in Copenhagen! I'm hiring a PhD and a Postdoc to start in 2025. Application deadline 28 November employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=1626… employment.ku.dk/all-vacancies/…
Really exciting news! We're delighted to have been awarded a major grant to fund a new digitisation facility at @ManMetUni, hosted at @PrintCityMMU. The @ahrcpress RICHeS initiative will be funding microCT, surface scanning and hyperspectral imaging kit mmu.ac.uk/news-and-event…
You can find the article linked to the Swartkrans microtCT scans available from human-fossi-record.org here: paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.php/…
🚨New Publication!🚨 We deep dive into the positional behaviour of the Issa Valley chimpanzees, to investigate the selective pressures acting on ape behaviour in an open habitat 🐵🌳 (a 🧵) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aj…
Coming out next month and available now for pre-order, an edited volume all about primate nutrition, which I co-edited with @Joanna_Lambert1 and @primateeats. Many thanks to all the contributors! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…
New paper! We found another capuchin population, at Ubajara National Park 🇧🇷, that use stones to get underground food! They also use stick probes to get trapdoor spiders! We describe those behaviors and compare to other capuchins. @neoprego @InsideNatGeo rdcu.be/dG7Z8
Deadline is the 30th of April, still plenty of time to apply!!
🚨Job Klaxon🚨 Q: What links biomechanics, human evolution and apes? A: This 2-year post-doc position available in my new Human and Ape Biomechanics group in the Department of Human Origins @MPI_EVA_Leipzig 👇 eva.mpg.de/career/positio…
If you are interested in facial growth and evolution in apes 🐒🦍🦧 and what makes humans special, check out our new paper in Proceedings B doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2… @fondationfyssen @PACEA_Bordeaux @MPI_EVA_Leipzig 🧵👇
Did you know orangutans craft cosy nests from woven branches and leaves to sleep in?🌿 A recent publication showed that young orangutans will start to practice their night nest building skills around age 3. 🦧