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Quentin Cosnefroy

@quentin-cosnefroy.bsky.social
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Paleoanthropologist. Fonctional anatomy of the appendicular skeleton - Locomotor behaviors of human and non-human primates - Hominin postcranial morphostructure. Laboratory for Archaeo-Bioanthropology (HUJI), Associate researcher at UMR 5199 PACEA.

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IRN Bipedal Equilibrium @irnbipedalism.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
To finish the #ESHE2026 before the General Assembly, Pierre Gousset is presenting his research on phylogeny and postcranial anatomy.
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Quentin Cosnefroy @quentin-cosnefroy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Last week I had the chance to co-organize with my colleagues Jeremy Duveau, Pierre Gousset and Laurent Pallas: Functional Anatomy and Natural History of the Catarrhine Femur 🐒🦍🏃‍♀️ A Workshop in the frame of the @irnbipedalism.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social at the @museedelhomme.fr
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IRN Bipedal Equilibrium @irnbipedalism.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Two days of discussions on femoral anatomy and locomotion in catarrhines at the @museedelhomme.fr. Thank you to all our members present in Paris or online who took part in this workshop. This is just the first step towards further research.
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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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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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Quentin Cosnefroy @quentin-cosnefroy.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Did our ancestors simply stand up to become bipeds? Not quite. In this new @theconversation.com, Jérémy Duveau and I explore what recent paleoanthropological discoveries reveal about the evolution of bipedalism 👣🦴 theconversation.com/non-nos-ance... @irnbipedalism.bsky.social @pacea.bsky.social
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Non, nos ancêtres ne se sont pas simplement « redressés » : repenser l’évolution vers notre bipédie
Loin de l’image populaire mais fausse d’un grand singe se redressant peu à peu pour devenir bipède, les recherches dévoilent une réalité plus complexe.
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Société d'Anthropologie de Paris (SAP) @sapanthropologie.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
🚨 Job alert! ⏬
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Société d'Anthropologie de Paris (SAP) @sapanthropologie.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
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Lettre ouverte d'Anne Fraïsse Présidente de l'Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry au Président de la république | UPVM
Monsieur le Président,On meurt dans vos Universités. On meurt dans mon Université. D’excès de travail, de stress, d’usure, de désespoir, d’indifférence.
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Quentin Cosnefroy @quentin-cosnefroy.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Delighted to share my new communication at the @sapanthropologie.bsky.social meeting, in Geneva. What about using so-called "biomechanical" traits for phylogenetic questions in paleoanthropology? @univbordeaux.bsky.social @pacea.bsky.social 🦴☠️🧬🦍 Join us, it's here: www.sapweb.fr/index.php/fr...
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IRN Bipedal Equilibrium @irnbipedalism.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
For the first day of the #JournéesdelaSAP, @fdruelle.bsky.social presented his work on reconstructing the positional reportoire of fossil hominins.
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IRN Bipedal Equilibrium @irnbipedalism.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Some of our members are this week in Geveva for the annual meetings of the @sapanthropologie.bsky.social #JournéesdelaSAP
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Institute of Natural Sciences @naturalsciences-be.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
#Neanderthal bones from the Goyet caves 🇧🇪 show traces of cannibalism. It now appears that all the victims were women and children. Moreover, they did not come from the Goyet region but were brought there. #sciencenews 👉 www.naturalsciences.be/en/science/n...
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John Hawks @johnhawks.net · 25/11/2025
This is a remarkable open access resource for genomic work on living great apes. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A curated dataset of great ape genome diversity - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - A curated dataset of great ape genome diversity
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The Anatomical Record @anatrecord.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
🦴 New study reveals how teen growth and puberty shape the femur from inside out. Analyzing medieval femora, researchers found sex-specific “medullary contractions” during adolescence—especially in females & varying by region Muñoz-Guarinos et al.: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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PACEA laboratory, Human evolution, Prehistory @pacea.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
The IRN Bipedal Equilibrium team is running an international survey on hominin bipedalism. They aim to better understand how scholars think about bipedalism. Perspectives from all fields are welcome! 👉 Here is the survey link: questions.huma-num.fr/v4/s/dv57r1 (10 min) Please share it widely! 🏺🧪🦣
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François Druelle @fdruelle.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Une grosse enquête sur la bipédie humaine est en cours, alors si vous êtes anthropologue ou primatologue, n’hésitez pas à y répondre !! On a besoin de tous les avis ! 💡
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Société d'Anthropologie de Paris (SAP) @sapanthropologie.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
🚩Notre numéro thématique des #BMSAP sur le thème des " #pratiquesmortuaires et inférences sociales" est maintenant complètement en ligne et en #Openaccess ! Our thematic issue of the #BMSAP on “ #mortuarypractices and social inferences” is now fully online and in #OpenAccess! doi.org/10.4000/14ohi
Couverture du numéro d'octobre avec des sépultures de la nécropole du Néolithique moyen de Gurgy (Yonne, France) / Burials from the Middle Neolithic necropolis of Gurgy (Yonne, France). © Stéphane Rottier
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Quentin Cosnefroy @quentin-cosnefroy.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Did Neandertals choose their prey when practicing cannibalism?🍖 Check out our new study, just published in Scientific Reports - @natureportfolio.nature.com! We provide the strongest evidence to date for a highly selective cannibalism at the end of Neandertal lineage, 41-45.000 years ago. 1/7
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Highly selective cannibalism in the Late Pleistocene of Northern Europe reveals Neandertals were targeted prey - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Highly selective cannibalism in the Late Pleistocene of Northern Europe reveals Neandertals were targeted prey
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CNRS @cnrs.fr · 20/11/2025
#Communiqué 🗞️ L’étude d’ossements néandertaliens de la Troisième caverne de Goyet révèle un cannibalisme sélectif, ciblant les femmes et les enfants, il y a 41 000-45 000 ans. Les victimes venaient probablement d’un groupe extérieur à la communauté. 👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/de...
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Société d'Anthropologie de Paris (SAP) @sapanthropologie.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
🚩💀🏆Lors des prochaines journées nous allons décerner le prix de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris, qui vise à récompenser un travail de thèse en anthropologie biologique, rédigé en français ou en anglais et soutenu pendant l’année ! date limite de candidature: 30 novembre 2025
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two men are standing next to each other and one of them is saying `` you got this '' while the other is dancing .
Alt: Gif from Friends, Joe and Chandler are standing next to each other and one of them is saying `` you got this '' while the other is dancing .
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Société d'Anthropologie de Paris (SAP) @sapanthropologie.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
🚩In the #BMSAP by Anastasia Chrysanthi Solomou (Univ Catholique de Louvain @univpaulvalery.bsky.social) Fragmentary data and scattered lands: a #recordingprotocol for a comparative #archaeothanatologicalanalysis based on #archaeological illustrations #Openaccess journals.openedition.org/bmsap/14375
Map of Greece showing the seven sites examined |
Carte de la Grèce présentant les sept sites étudiés
CAD/DAO: Anastasia Solomou Tomb T.11 showing the typically observed position and orientation characteristics in the Tsepi cemetery (after Pantelidou Gkopha, 2005: fig. 78) |
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Quentin Cosnefroy @quentin-cosnefroy.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Delighted to share the publication of my new article in the Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris! The article is open access — feel free to take a look! -> doi.org/10.4000/153s3 @sapanthropologie.bsky.social @pacea.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social @univ-amu.fr
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Femoral and pelvic morpho-structure in extant primates and fossil H...
Introduction The positional repertoire of an individual consists of a combination of postural and locomotor modes whose frequency varies according to age, body mass and environmental conditions (Do...
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Quentin Cosnefroy @quentin-cosnefroy.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Intéressés par la Préhistoire, l'Evolution humaine et ... le théâtre ? Venez participer à l'évènement "Neandertal, l'enquête continue", une restitution grand public du projet scientifique ADNER. Rendez-vous au Musée d'Aquitaine, le 22/10 à 16h30. @univbordeaux.bsky.social @pacea.bsky.social
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Nicolas Martin @nclsmartin.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Well... here we are, I guess! Just submitted my PhD and it feels pretty unreal! So proud of this journey! More exciting data on the Nile Valley is coming, plus some new projects to announce soon. Stay tuned, this adventure is far from over! 👀 @isabellecrevecoeur.bsky.social @pacea.bsky.social
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François Druelle @fdruelle.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
One more great congress for the Société Francophone De Primatologie @lasfdp.bsky.social !! Organized in Poitiers by @palevoprim.bsky.social It was great moment to share ideas & discoveries between primatologists and anthropologists. See you next time at the @efp2026.bsky.social in Montpelier !!
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IRN Bipedal Equilibrium @irnbipedalism.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Several members of our network are in Poitiers this week to present their research at the #SFDP2025 meetings 💪.
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Quentin Cosnefroy @quentin-cosnefroy.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Big thanks to PALEVOPRIM lab for the invitation to share the stage with amazing colleagues for this symposium at the #SFDP2025. I think this was a great moment! @lasfdp.bsky.social
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Quentin Cosnefroy @quentin-cosnefroy.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
A close friend for chimps, an inspiration for humans. All primates just lost a friend. Goodbye Jane.
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Dany Coutinho Nogueira @danycnogueira.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Just found out I didn’t get another grant I applied for. Disappointed, but still motivated to keep pushing forward. If anyone knows of opportunities (grants, contracts, collaborations, preferably in Portugal/Spain), I’d be very grateful for any leads. #Funding #Research
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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
#ESHE2025 Zoe Nowicki ‘Revisiting femoral anteversion in hominoids: A new approach using 3D data’ Is femoral anteversion human-specific & related to bip? 2 methods to measure anteversion angle; excluding fem head critical to show human-ape diffs (fem head adds noise for being unique in humans) !
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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
#ESHE2025 Ashleigh Wiseman ‘Primate locomotor diversity and the evolution of hominin bipedalism’ Building musculoskeletal models to simulate movement. Application to apes, eHoms, humans- phylo analysis of diffs; Au Prometheus as outlier. 5 unique clusters of locomotor profiles . Amazing visuals 😍!
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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
#ESHE2025 Alicia Blasi-Toccacceli ‘Morpho-functional analysis of new hominin-associated shoulder remains …Shungura, Ethiopia’ NEW SHUNGURA: OMO VE 3-10063 assoc shoulder 1.84 Ma – Aus or Homo? GMM of D hum shaft & art, glenoid fossa shape & angle: new fossil is earliest adult HOMO shoulder 😍
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IRN Bipedal Equilibrium @irnbipedalism.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Thank you to everyone who came to see our poster and to the members of our network who attended the #ESHE2025 in force.
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Quentin Cosnefroy @quentin-cosnefroy.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Delighted to present new preliminary results on Neandertals and Homo sapiens neonates femora at the #ESHE2025 @isabellecrevecoeur.bsky.social @hrougier.bsky.social @pacea.bsky.social @eshesociety.bsky.social
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IRN Bipedal Equilibrium @irnbipedalism.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
We encourage you to participate in our survey on bipedalism: questions.huma-num.fr/v4/s/dv57r1
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IRN Bipedal Equilibrium @irnbipedalism.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Pleased to be in paris for the @eshesociety.bsky.social meetings to present our poster and invite participants to take part in our survey on bipedalism :)
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IRN Bipedal Equilibrium @irnbipedalism.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Our research group on bipedalism is now on bluesky
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Isabelle Crevecoeur @isabellecrevecoeur.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
‼️📣Extremely proud to see this great collaborative work out! Oldest Shell Ornament Workshop in Western Europe at Saint-Césaire: www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1... #Prehistory #Archaeology #Chatelperronian #Shells #Beads #Homosapiens #Neandertal #Ornament Details of discovery & implications ⏬ 🧵 1/20
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Société d'Anthropologie de Paris (SAP) @sapanthropologie.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
It is with deep sadness that the SAP announces the passing of Jaroslav Brůžek, Professor at the Faculty of Science of Charles University in Prague and Emeritus Research Director at the CNRS. The scientific community has lost a pillar; the SAP has lost a dear friend.
Jaroslav Brůžek at the SAP conference
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Palevoprim @palevoprim.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
22 mai 2025 10h30 séminaire international @palevoprim.bsky.social Q. Cosnefroy @pacea.bsky.social La structure interne des os longs : entre adaptation locomotrice et signal phylogénétique palevoprim.labo.univ-poitiers.fr/wp-content/u... @univpoitiers.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social
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Palevoprim @palevoprim.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
22 mai 2025 10h30 séminaire international @palevoprim.bsky.social J. Duveau @unituebingen.bsky.social "Des empreintes de pieds aux caractéristiques des hominines..." palevoprim.labo.univ-poitiers.fr/wp-content/u... @univpoitiers.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social
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PACEA laboratory, Human evolution, Prehistory @pacea.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
🧪Congratulations to our PhD Fellow @nclsmartin.bsky.social for this great achievement @pnas.org ! 🎉 New light on Late Pleistocene–Early Holocene migration events in Sudan and Southern Egypt @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social
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PACEA laboratory, Human evolution, Prehistory @pacea.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The deadline is coming!!
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François Druelle @fdruelle.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Maintenant que le projet #ANR #hobis (hominin bipedalismS) est terminé. Il peut être intéressant de rejeter un coup oeil sur le petit doc vidéo que nous avions fait avec le #cnrs sur ce projet : youtu.be/B5Ub-OwGEs4?...
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Comment marchaient nos ancêtres | Reportage CNRS
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La Société Francophone de Primatologie @lasfdp.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
#VoxPrimato #bourse 01/03/2025: date limite de candidature aux bourses "Captive Care", "Conservation", et "Research" de 1250£ (1500euros) de la part d'une société soeur en Grande-Bretagne. Les personnes issues des pays abritant des primates n'ont pas besoin d'être membre! 👇
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La Société Francophone de Primatologie @lasfdp.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
#VoxPrimato #job poste d'assistant de recherche à temps partiel à Göttingen, en Allemagne (expérience en SIG et R, travail sur données de pièges photographiques et spatiales) pour le Moyen Bafing Chimpanzee Project sur l'écologie comportementale des chimpanzés dans le PNMB de Guinée 👇
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La Société Francophone de Primatologie @lasfdp.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
#VoxPrimato #postdoc offre de postdoc (max 4ans après la thèse) pour étudier les différences individuelles et la plasticité dans la communication des bonobos sauvages et captifs, à Tübingen en Allemagne, terrain à Kokolopori (RDC) et zoos Leipzig et Francfort 👇
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Paige Madison @fossilhistory.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Charles Darwin published his book Descent of Man #OnThisDay in 1871. In it he wrote: "It has often been asserted that man’s origin can never be known, but ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge."
Sketch of a skinny, bearded man dressed in a suit facing a bearded monkey caricature who is seated on a desk atop a stack of books including origin of species. on the floor is the book descent of man.
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PACEA laboratory, Human evolution, Prehistory @pacea.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Excited for today's 'Surface' team meeting! Discussion on our work on high-res methods for studying modifications on bone/stone artifacts. Plus, we welcome our new postdoc, P. Mateo Lomba (ERC ExOsTech @lucdoyon.bsky.social ) to the team! @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social
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PAASTA Community @paastacommunity.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
SEE YOU THIS AFTERNOON (16:00 CET) 😀
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