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Mark Grabowski

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Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Anthropology at Liverpool John Moores University; human evolution; evolutionary biology; comparative methods. Co-lead of the Joint MSc Human Evolution Programme at UoL/LJMU.

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Mark Grabowski @markgrabowski.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Thanks for the boost!
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Mark Grabowski @markgrabowski.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Final JHE Update: Summary of the recent AABA Open forum and final response to Elsevier from former EICs.
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Mark Grabowski @markgrabowski.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Interested in human evolution? Want to get a great Master's education, provided by two stellar teams? Join us at the U of Liverpool on April 2, 4-5 PM, for our Human Evolution MSc info session. Details below.
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Mark Grabowski @markgrabowski.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
JHE Update: First, we are profoundly grateful for the outpouring of support from the human evolution community for the collective decision to resign. While Andrea and I intended to continue handling our existing manuscripts for 3 months following resignation and were continuing to do so ... (1/3)
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Mark Grabowski @markgrabowski.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Journal editors’ mass resignation marks ‘sad day for paleoanthropology’
Exodus from the Journal of Human Evolution leaves a flagship journal in crisis
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Mark Grabowski @markgrabowski.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.
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Christopher M. Smith @csmithevoanatomy.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
The human evolutionary story is full of oddities. The Paranthropus group is particularly fascinating. Today, we present new insights into their inner ear indicating that one species -Paranthropus robustus- may have indeed been doing something different! 1/4🧵 authors.elsevier.com/a/1kGFIAlZXX...
Inner ear anatomy of Paranthropus robustus compared to modern humans.
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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Extensive locomotor versatility across a global sample of hunter–gatherer societies 🏺🧪 George Brill, @martamlahr.bsky.social and Mark Dyble royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... Diverse locomotor proficiency suggests that locomotor versatility represents a dimension of human adaptive lability
Cross-cultural distribution of locomotor versatility and proficiency among hunter–gatherer societies of the SCCS. Phylogenetic tree constructed using genetic and linguistic isolation data as developed by Duda & Zrzavý [31,32] and presented by Minocher et al. [22]. Photos from left to right: Hadza (Tanzania, Arnold Tibaijuka); Pueblo (USA, Carl Moon); Batek (Malaysia, George Brill); Fijian (Fiji, George Brill); Bajau (Indonesia, George Brill).
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Mark Grabowski @markgrabowski.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Interested in human evolution? Want to get a great Master's education, provided by two stellar teams? Apply now for Fall 2025 entry into the Joint MSc in Human Evolution, from the U of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores U - info below and here: www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/2025...
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Human Evolution MSc
It has taken 7 million years of struggle to make us ‘human.’ How did we get here and why? In our Human Evolution MSc you'll investigate the biological and behavioural changes that made us the species ...
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Mark Grabowski @markgrabowski.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
What a great issue - I particularly like Pages 1413–1432, but amazing content overall. Thanks Masahito for putting this together.
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Dr Laura T. Buck @ltbuck.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Join us for our December RCEAP seminar. 10th Dec, 16-17:00 GMT. Sharon DeWitte (Uni of Colorado Bolder) will be speaking about 'Stress, sex, & death: health & survival in the context of Medieval famine & plague'. Join via Teams: tinyurl.com/2s3vj3nv. All welcome!
Image shows Sharon DeWitte sitting outside on a bench
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