Top Human Origins Discoveries of 2025
· 42 min · Episode 91
Episode Top Human Origins Discoveries of 2025
2025 was another exciting year in human origins research! In this episode, four scientists and Leakey Foundation grantees (and one podcast host) share their picks for the top discoveries of the year.
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Links to learn more
All research articles are open-access and free to read
New research reveals the hand of Paranthropus boisei
Earliest evidence of making fire
Complete sequencing of ape genomes
Highly selective cannibalism in the Late Pleistocene of Northern Europe reveals Neandertals were targeted prey
Denisovan mitochondrial DNA from dental calculus of the >146,000-year-old Harbin cranium
Links in the notes 7
- https://leakeyfoundation.donorsupport.co/page/4xmatch2025
- https://mailchi.mp/leakeyfoundation.org/2024-email-landing-page
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09594-8
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09855-6
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08816-3
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-24460-3
- https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)00627-0
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