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....
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Sapient Editorial Board
- Oct 14, 2023
- 1 min
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...
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Sapient Editorial Board
- Dec 2, 2022
- 2 min
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...
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Sapient Editorial Board
- Nov 17, 2022
- 1 min
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...
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Sapient Editorial Board
- Oct 23, 2022
- 3 min
Sahelanthropus tchadensis: bipedal after all?
Ana Reif A new morphological analysis suggests Sahelanthropus tchadensis may have been bipedal after all. Sahelanthropus tchadensis is...
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Sapient Editorial Board
- Oct 10, 2022
- 2 min
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...
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Sapient Editorial Board
- Oct 4, 2022
- 1 min
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...
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Sapient Editorial Board
- Oct 20, 2021
- 1 min
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...
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Sapient Editorial Board
- Nov 3, 2019
- 1 min
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...
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Sapient Editorial Board
- Oct 30, 2019
- 1 min
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...
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Sapient Editorial Board
- Oct 23, 2019
- 1 min
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,...
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Sapient Editorial Board
- Jun 28, 2019
- 6 min
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...
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Sapient Editorial Board
- May 28, 2019
- 1 min
Student art: Alouatta seniculus
Thank you to Astrid Jervis (SPS) for these fantastic illustrations! By Astrid Jervis Alouatta seniculus (red howler monkey), 2019
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Sapient Editorial Board
- May 27, 2019
- 1 min
Student art: Mandrillus sphinx
By Emily Conlogue (Barnard '19) Mandrillus sphinx (mandrill) Mixed media
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Sapient Editorial Board
- May 21, 2019
- 3 min
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...
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Sapient Editorial Board
- May 3, 2019
- 1 min
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...
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Sapient Editorial Board
- Apr 25, 2019
- 1 min
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...
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Sapient Editorial Board
- Apr 14, 2019
- 2 min
How to save endangered orangutans? The answer may lie in astrophysics
In July 2016, after years of illegal hunting and habitat destruction brought on by large-scale logging in the Bornean forest, the IUCN...
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Sapient Editorial Board
- Apr 10, 2019
- 1 min
Follow us on Twitter!
Sapient's Twitter page is back! Follow us to stay up-to-date on the journal and all things biological anthropology:...
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Sapient Editorial Board
- Mar 31, 2019
- 2 min
It's a Gorilla Baby Boom!
Recently in United States Zoo systems, many gorilla parents have been welcoming new babies into the world. In 2018, several new gorilla...
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