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April 3, 2024

SAPIENS ESSAY/UNEARTHED By CHRISTIAN TRYON AND CSHO’S SHARA BAILEY: “LEARNING FROM SNAPSHOTS OF LOST FOSSILS”


 

February 28, 2024

New research BY Justin Pargeter and colleagues sheds light on ancient climate change, and it’s impacts on human evolution at Boomplaas Cave, South Africa

image of Boomplaas Cave, South Africa and research team
 
 


 

February 22, 2024

DID NEANDERHTALS USE GLUE?

A stone tool glued into a handle made of liquid bitumen with the addition of 55 percent ochre. It is no longer sticky and can be handled easily. Image courtesy of Patrick Schmidt, University of Tübingen.

January 29, 2024

INNER EAR OF A 6-MILLION-YEAR-OLD FOSSIL APE REVEALS CLUES ABOUT THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN MOVEMENT

image of the reconstruction of the locomotor behavior and paleoenvironment of Lufengpithecus
Reconstruction of the locomotor behavior and paleoenvironment of Lufengpithecus. Image courtesy of Xijun Ni, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
 
Examples of an Oldowan percussive tool, core and flakes from the Nyayanga site
Photo credit: T.W. Plummer, J.S. Oliver, and E. M. Finestone, Homa Peninsula Paleoanthropology Project.
 

 

September 14, 2022

The upper jaw of the infant of Yuanmoupithecus. Image credit: Terry Harrison

Earliest Gibbon Fossil Found in Southwest China

 

 

 

 

 

 


image comparing lower back bones of a modern human and neandertal
Image: Lower back bones of a Neandertal (Kebara 2 specimen; left) and a post-industrial modern human (right) demonstrating differences in wedging and curvature of the lower back. Image courtesy of Scott Williams, NYU’s Department of Anthropology
 

 

November 23, 2021

drawing of Australopithecus sediba silhouette hanging from branch
Image: Australopithecus sediba silhouette showing the newly-found vertebrae (colored) along with other skeletal remains from the species. © NYU & Wits University

Ancient Human Relative, Australopithecus sediba, “Walked Like a Human, But Climbed Like an Ape”

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 

 

September 1, 2021

CSHO welcomes our new Director, Prof. Shara Bailey!

 

 

 

 


 

June 16, 2021

picture of Scott Williams and colleagues 3D scanning fossils
Image: Scott Williams (right), NYU Anthropology

3D Scanning and Studying the History of Human Movement

 

 

 

 

 

 

February 26, 2021

CSHO faculty member Dr. Shara Bailey

Prof. Shara Bailey was selected to receive this year’s NYU Arts and Science Teaching Innovation Award!

 

 

 


 

October 22, 2019

NYU ‘Brainiacs’ episode features research co-authored by CSHO faculty Radu Iovita debunking the theory that our neanderthal ancestors were master glue-makers

 
 
 

 

August 19, 2019

picture of flint attached to wood using birch pitch
Image credit: NYU Tandon, Johannes Pfleging

Researchers from the University of Tübingen and New York University argue that birch tar extraction does not prove Neanderthal behavioral complexity

 

 


 

image of 3-rooted lower molar anomaly
Images courtesy of Christine Lee (California State University, Los Angeles, CA)

 

 


 

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A gibbon (left) and a two-toed sloth (right) demonstrate antipronograde behavior

May 13, 2019

 
 
 
 
 
 

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May 13, 2019

Scott Williams et al. find evolutionary backing in new analysis of differences in mammalian vertebrae

 

 

 


View of the virtual reconstruction of the Xiahe mandible
Image credit: Jean-Jacques Hublin, MPI-EVA, Leipzig

May 1, 2019

Denisovan mandible likely represents the earliest hominin fossil on the Tibetan Plateau

 
 
 
 

An evolutionary tree depicting the relationships among living apes, Ardi, and modern humans

April 30, 2019

New study by Thomas C. Prang on the African ape-like foot of Ardipithecus ramidus and its implications for the origin of bipedalism

 

 


 

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April 19, 2019

Shara Bailey interviewed as segment guest on Science Friday episode: ‘What Makes a Species Human?’

 


 

Middle–Late Pleistocene hominin crania compared to Homo sapiens

April 15, 2019

New research on the evolutionary history of the human face, including work from NYU Dentistry’s Rodrigo Lacruz and Timothy Bromage

 

 


 

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April 9, 2019

Laura Newman and Julia Galway-Witham are selected as Fellows for the 2019 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)


photo of Professor Susan Antón

 

March 29, 2019

AAPA Honors Prof. Susan Antón with Gabriel L. Lasker Service Award for 2019

 

 

 

 


 

photo of infant rhesus macaque from Cayo Santiago Puerto Rico

March 11, 2019

Short Birth Intervals Associated with Higher Offspring Mortality in Primates

 

 

 


 

 

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Professor Susan Antón elected next President of the Ford Foundation Society of Senior Fellows

 

 


front cover of Scholastic News Real Lorax issue

March 1, 2019

Scholastic News highlights Dr. Seuss and the real Lorax with research from NYU Primatology

‘Who was the real Lorax?’

 

 

 


illustration of peasants breaking bread

January 21, 2019

Rust Family Foundation awards Professor Pam Crabtree for work on “Feeding Medieval Europe”

 

 


January 17, 2019photo of Australopithecus-Sediba-artistic-reconstruction

Scientists Confirm Pair of Skeletons are from Same Early Hominin Species

 

 

 


 

picture of rhesus macaque from Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico

December 8, 2018

 

 


 

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September 16, 2018

International Council for Archaeozoology appoints Prof. Pam Crabtree to Council of Honor

 


CSHO faculy member Dr. Cliff Jolly

February 11, 2018

 

Dr. Clifford Jolly awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Primatological Society

 

 


 

 

Fall 2017

Drs. Scott William, Shara Bailey, James Higham and Ph.D. Candidate

Alexandra DeCasien featured in NYU Research Digest

 

 

 

 


Image credit: Philipp Gunz, MPI EVA Leipzig, License: CC-BY-SA 2.0

 

November 6, 2017

Dr. Shara Bailey featured on the Leakey Foundation’s Podcast Origin Stories Season 2 Episode 6–Rewriting Our Story

 


 

November 2, 2017

Professor Radu Iovita featured by NYU Affordability Initiative

 


 

October 2, 2017

Dr. James Higham’s campaign to check on Cayo Santiago inspires humanitarian relief effort


Image Credit: Constance Dubuc

 

October 2, 2017

Dr. James Higham working to save rhesus monkeys after damage from Hurricane Maria

 

 

 


June 8, 2017

Dr. Shara Bailey featured on Science Friday 

 

 

 

 


Image credit: Philipp Gunz, MPI EVA Leipzig (License: CC-BY- SA 2.0)

 

June 7, 2017

Dr. Shara Bailey part of team studying oldest Homo sapiens fossils

 

 

 

 

 


Image Credit: Wits University/John Hawks

 

May 9, 2017

Professors Shara Bailey and Scott Williams analyze new Homo naledi fossils

 

 

 


Image credit: MNP – Ph. Jugie

 

January 27, 2017

Dr. Randall White uncovers 38,000-year old art

 

 

 


Image Credit: Terry Harrison

 

September 27, 2016

Dr. Terry Harrison co-authors paper on discovery of 3.8 million year old proteins