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Helene Rougier

@hrougier.bsky.social
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Paleoanthropologist at CSUN

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Nicolas Martin @nclsmartin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Huge thanks to all 26 co-authors, curating institutions across Africa, Europe and America, and the many colleagues who provided access to collections. @isabellecrevecoeur.bsky.social @pacea.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social 📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 11/11
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Bony labyrinth morphology reveals deep population history and isolation among Homo sapiens in prehistoric northeastern Africa (44–3 ka) - Nature Communications
Little is known of the Homo sapiens population history in late prehistoric northeastern Africa. Using inner ear morphology from 148 individuals, this study documents 40.000 years of human evolution, i...
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Isabelle Crevecoeur @isabellecrevecoeur.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Another fun excavation year of #Mousterian contexts at Saint-Cesaire with great colleagues and friends ✨️🤗 @hrougier.bsky.social Thanks to the Ministère de la culture, @charente-maritime.bsky.social , @univbordeaux.bsky.social, Paléosite,... #archaeology #prehistory #neandertal
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Isabelle Crevecoeur @isabellecrevecoeur.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
A new paper on late Neandertal genetic diversity - A must-read! 👏🍾 Congratulations to our amazing paleogeneticist colleagues! Great to see so much data from Belgian sites, made possible in part through our bone-sorting endeavours with @hrougier.bsky.social 🦴🤓🤩 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Genetic diversity of late Neanderthals in northwestern Europe - Nature
Genetic sequencing of multiple late Neanderthals living less than 52,500 years ago provides an overview of genetic diversity and demonstrates that even low-coverage nuclear genome data can increase re...
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Mateja Hajdinjak @matejahajdi.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Our late Neandertal paper is officially out! 💀❤️🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41... It was years in the making, a tremendous feat spearheaded by our PhD student Alba Bossoms Mesa and co-led by @janetk.bsky.social and @benmpeter.bsky.social
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La Science, CQFD @sciencecqfd.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
#Podcast Et pour (ré)écouter la chronique #AvecSciences du jour > Les ancêtres des derniers néandertaliens se sont réfugiés dans le Sud-Ouest Par @alexandradelbot.bsky.social via @franceculture.fr #ScienceCQFD www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
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Les ancêtres des derniers néandertaliens se sont réfugiés dans le Sud-Ouest
Il y a 75 000 ans, le froid pousse les Néandertaliens à se replier dans le sud-ouest de la France. Selon cette étude, tous les derniers représentants descendent de ce petit groupe. En repartant de si ...
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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 23/03/2026
Two new studies of Neanderthal DNA from @massilanilab.bsky.social, @hrougier.bsky.social, @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social and others show our ancient cousins survived for millennia in small, geographically isolated groups. www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org 🧬🏺
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Neanderthals survived on a knife’s edge for 350,000 years
A pair of studies illuminates these humans’ long, hardscrabble existence
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Helene Rougier @hrougier.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
📢New article out on the cannibalized Neandertals from Goyet - Transdisciplinary work integrating detailed morphometric analysis of highly fragmented bones 👏@quentin-cosnefroy.bsky.social, paleogenetics, and isotope analysis shows Neandertal females and children were victims of selective cannibalism!
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Helene Rougier @hrougier.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
🚨 New paper alert! A new look at the Châtelperronian through interdisciplinary work at Saint-Césaire: the oldest shell ornament workshop in Western Europe. Read @isabellecrevecoeur.bsky.social's thread below 👇
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Helene Rougier @hrougier.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
New research on the #Goyet #Neandertals presented this week at the #SAPconference: inferences on biological profiles & biomechanics from the postcranial skeleton, by @quentin-cosnefroy.bsky.social with @isabellecrevecoeur.bsky.social
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Helene Rougier @hrougier.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Ce matin, un résumé de notre article sur Ranis/Zlaty kun dans Avec Science sur France Culture. Merci @alexandremorales.bsky.social ! www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
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Le séquençage du plus vieux génome d'humain moderne nous en dit plus sur son voyage hors d'Afrique
Une équipe internationale d’anthropologues et de généticiens est parvenue à séquencer les plus anciens génomes d’Hommes modernes connus à ce jour. Leurs résultats, publiés dans la revue Nature, apport...
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Arev P. Sümer @arevsumer.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Our research ended up in German public TV last night! Here you can find the clip and associated news article (in German) www.tagesschau.de/wissen/forsc...
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Ältestes Genom des modernen Menschen entschlüsselt
Wann traf der moderne Mensch auf den Neandertaler? Forschenden ist es gelungen, diese offene Frage der Menschheitsgeschichte zu klären. Dafür untersuchten sie unter anderem das älteste Genom eines mod...
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Helene Rougier @hrougier.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
New article out! Collaborative work led by arevsumer.bsky.social‬ who also wrote a thread 👇 outlining the numerous new results of the study. Here is Fig. 4, a visual representation of the main points. www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-… #archeogenetics #Homosapiens #Neandertals
Tree showing the timing of the main Neanderthal introgression event (45-49 ky) and order of the population separations from the Out-of-Africa lineage.
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