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In the News: New Paranthropus Robustus Fossils Discovered in South Africa
Source: 2025. The SWT1/HR-2a hominin left os coxae shown in medial (superior up; anterior right) (A), lateral (superior up; anterior...
Janaki Nair
Mar 112 min read
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In the News: A Dying Dialect among Wild West Chimpanzees
Source: García Roa R. 2023. Pepe, a one-year-old baby chimp rescued from poaching by the CCC, enjoys one of the school sessions in the...
Janaki Nair
Feb 273 min read
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Scavenging a home: How Ice Age humans built houses from mammoth bones
In 1951, a team of researchers discovered a “bonehenge” in southwestern Russia—a concentrated ring of mammoth bones, clearly remnants of...

Janaki Nair
Feb 182 min read
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Primate of the Week: The Crowned Sifaka (Propithecus coronatus)
Bronagh Doughty Classification Crowned sifakas are members of the Strepsirrhine suborder, along with lorises and all other lemurs....
Bronagh Doughty
Nov 1, 20232 min read
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Join the Hominin Hub (and Sapient!)
This fall, members of the editorial board will be meeting on Sundays to discuss events, Hominin Hub posts, outreach and editing. If you...
Sapient Editorial Board
Oct 14, 20231 min read
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Speculative Neandertal/modern human overlap in France and Spain
Ana Reif A major reevaluation of radiocarbon dating narrows down the period when Neandertals and modern humans may have exchanged...
Sapient Editorial Board
Dec 2, 20222 min read
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Sketching skulls event, fall 2022
A belated thank you to everyone who was able to make it to the Sketching Skulls event on October 30th! We had a great turnout and an...
Sapient Editorial Board
Nov 17, 20221 min read
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Sahelanthropus tchadensis: bipedal after all?
Ana Reif A new morphological analysis suggests Sahelanthropus tchadensis may have been bipedal after all. Sahelanthropus tchadensis is...
Sapient Editorial Board
Oct 23, 20223 min read
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Yunxian Man
Ana Reif A new Homo erectus fossil fills gaps in the history of hominins’ occupation of East Asia. This new fossil belongs to a...
Sapient Editorial Board
Oct 10, 20222 min read
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Welcome (back) to Sapient!
This fall members of the editorial board will be meeting on Sundays to discuss events, Hominin Hub posts, outreach and editing. If you...
Sapient Editorial Board
Oct 4, 20221 min read
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Sapient is Back!
After a long year of classes and Sapient over Zoom, we are so excited to be back in person! Meeting details are forthcoming, and we are...
Sapient Editorial Board
Oct 20, 20211 min read
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Primate news: aye-ayes have a sixth finger!
The aye-aye, a type of lemur, has long been known for its bizarre looks. As Wired puts it, the species has “the tail of a squirrel, the...
Sapient Editorial Board
Nov 3, 20191 min read
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Sunday's Spooky Sketching Skulls!
Thank you to everyone who braved the pouring rain to come to Sketching Skulls on Sunday! We had a fantastic time drawing, eating bagels...
Sapient Editorial Board
Oct 30, 20191 min read
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Sketching Skulls: Halloween Edition!
Sketching Skulls is back, and spookier than ever! Sapient is hosting a Halloween sketching event on October 27! Stop by to look at,...
Sapient Editorial Board
Oct 23, 20191 min read
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The story hamadryas baboons tell, or the one we tell them: How women look further into the narrative
Hamadryas baboons (Papio hamadryas) are unique. Scientists have long agreed that hamadryas females don’t form complex social...
Sapient Editorial Board
Jun 28, 20196 min read
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Student art: Alouatta seniculus
Thank you to Astrid Jervis (SPS) for these fantastic illustrations! By Astrid Jervis Alouatta seniculus (red howler monkey), 2019
Sapient Editorial Board
May 28, 20191 min read
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Student art: Mandrillus sphinx
By Emily Conlogue (Barnard '19) Mandrillus sphinx (mandrill) Mixed media
Sapient Editorial Board
May 27, 20191 min read
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New study: Chimpanzees can use tools to dig for underground food
New evidence suggests that tool use, once considered unique to hominins, is not specific only to humans and our fossil ancestors. In a...
Sapient Editorial Board
May 21, 20193 min read
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Sketching Skulls Gallery
Our Sketching Skulls event was a success! Amazing artists of all ages came out to the Bone Lab to draw primate skulls, eat bagels, and...
Sapient Editorial Board
May 3, 20191 min read
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Event: Sketching Skulls (and free brunch) on Sunday, April 28!
Want to check out REAL human, primate, and in-between skulls? Fascinated with the macabre? WANT FREE BRUNCH?? Whether you have never...
Sapient Editorial Board
Apr 25, 20191 min read
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