Edwin de Jager

Modern anatomy meets ancient bones: How virtual anatomy is transforming palaeoanthropological research The fundamental steps in virtual palaeoanthropology whereby digitisation of original fossil remains and comparative samples enables virtual reconstruction, analysis, and biomechanical modelling of ex...

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Review of how virtual anatomy is transforming palaeoanthropology

With the best @juliaramendi.bsky.social

@palevoprim.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @fondationfyssen.bsky.social @cam-archaeology.bsky.social

Also this month, Manson and @nathanj.bsky.social used finite element modelling informed by neonatal MRI data, to test whether simple mechanical deformation from brain and masticatory muscle growth can predict early cranial shape change, focusing on the basicranium and face doi.org/10.1111/joa....

Building compositional tasks with shared neural subspaces - Nature The brain can flexibly perform multiple tasks by compositionally combining task-relevant neural representations.

Nature research paper: Building compositional tasks with shared neural subspaces

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🦴 The #TaungChild fossil changed how we understand human origins in #Africa. Its story is shaped by prejudice, rivalry and hidden hands.
🎧 Unburied Season 2: The Taung Child from HERI and ARC explores its history and legacy.
Listen here 👉 linktr.ee/arcdocs

Thrilled to join @palevoprim.bsky.social with @fondationfyssen.bsky.social to continue my "healthy" obsession with early hominin brains with Franck Guy and @ameliebeaudet.bsky.social. Thanks for the warm welcome!

🧠Edwin de Jager @edwindejager.bsky.social
A fresh scenario for hominin brain evolution
📍 Thursday, Session 3 – 4 p.m.

✨ And to close it all out…I will tell you more about the project we are working on! Spoiler alert: it is about
Australopithecus, morphological disparity and hominin radiation 💀
📍 Saturday, Session 10 – 3.50 p.m.

We are getting ready for #ESHE2025 in Paris! 🎉
The #LHOSA #CoEvol #BrAIn team will share exciting new results on hominin evolution—talks & posters you do not want to miss.🧵👇 @palevoprim.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univpoitiers.bsky.social

Towards a virtual environment for the Sterkfontein Caves, South Africa: developing a georeferenced and optimised digital dataset | Antiquity | Cambridge Core Accessibility at the Sterkfontein Caves UNESCO World Heritage Site limits public and scientific engagement. The authors digitally visualised part of the cave using laser scans and photogrammetry, geospatially integrating the digital cave and fossil datasets. This enables broader access for learners, educators and scientists and enhances scientific outreach potential.

Interested in human evolution? Check out the virtual environment of the Sterkfontein Caves in South Africa's 'Cradle of Humankind', allowing learners, educators and scientists to access this rich Australopithecus site without damaging its #archaeology 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🚀 Today is the day! The #LHOSA project funded by the @AgenceRecherche officially kicks off. Excited for the journey ahead! 👉http://palevoprim.labo.univ-poitiers.fr/language/en/2025/04/01/lhosa/ @palevoprim.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univpoitiers.bsky.social

Ciao, Ralph! Ralph has passed away, at his 90. Ralph Holloway: a full life. An example, a model, an inspiration. Commitment, passion, energy, dedication, perseverance. Much more than endocasts. Our first joint …

Ciao, Ralph!
MARCH 16, 2025 ~ EMILIANOBRUNER paleoneurology.wordpress.com/2025/03/16/c...

📣Don't miss our CAAG's last talk this term... Saharan prehistory and pastoralism with @martinadm.bsky.social . Tuesday 18th, 1pm, McDonald Inst. @cam-archaeology.bsky.social

#RIP #Anthropology #Paleoanthropology #SciComm #Stem In #Memorandum

Join us tomorrow for the 2nd talk of Cambridge African Archaeology Group Seminar series...with @edwindejager.bsky.social at @cam-archaeology.bsky.social

ICArEHB is accepting expressions of interest for PhD topics, including a project led by @ricardomgodinho.bsky.social and me:
📌 "Augmenting palaeodemographic analysis: Geometric morphometrics and machine learning based sex estimation of mandibles"

Interested? 📩 rmgodinho@ualg.pt | ja807@cam.ac.uk

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Honoured to have contributed to this special issue with @ameliebeaudet.bsky.social and team celebrating the iconic #Taung child for this centenary event. Stay tuned for more! #Palaeoanthropology #FossilFriday

And also see a collection of 100 papers on palaeoanthropology in Africa selected from Nature, Nature Ecology and Evolution, and Nature Communications..

This February is the 100-year anniversary of the discovery of the #Taung Child skull.

Join the #palaeoanthropology community in #SouthAfrica to commemorate at this free online webinar.

Happening Friday 7 Feb at 15.00 SAST / 08.00 EST

Register here: bit.ly/4hyV28M

📢Less than two weeks to the SAfA deadline!
Submit your abstract to our session on Digital Pathways (#56) and join us in Faro for an open discussion on the use of digital technologies to advance our understanding of the past.
@edwindejager.bsky.social

safa2025.icarehb.com/poster-and-o...