Assistant Professor of Anatomy at Midwestern University, Hominin evolution, eastern Africa, faunal change, teeth, stable isotopes, and Bayesian models
Downers Grove, IL
Joined March 2019
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Mini pig cuteness🚨: we found fossils of a mini pig (Cainochoerus) in the southern Kenyan Rift, near Narok, the first reporting of Cainochoerus at the site (Lemudong’o). Link to the article @JVP_vertpaleo : doi.org/10.1080/02724634.202…
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Dr. Hammond is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to join her newly formed Hominin Origins Research Group at the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP-CERCA).
icp.cat/index.php/es/icp-4/t…
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Arctic sea ice has likely reached its maximum extent, at 14.29 million square kilometers (5.52 million square miles) on March 15, edging just below last year’s record and statistically tying for the lowest maximum in the 48-year satellite record. bit.ly/4sBUe95
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If only people understood what this graph shows...
It's a failure of education and media.
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I’m delighted to share our new paper on sedimentary plant waxes and their use to assess past hydroclimate since the Younger Dryas in Central Europe:🍃👨🔬🌦️
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.… – at Basel, Switzerland
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Oh look Pliocene CO2 levels – at Trowse Newton, England
430.48 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 22-Feb-2026
keelingcurve.ucsd.edu/
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These fossils help understand the composition of African ecosystems during the time when human ancestors were first evolving
Collaborative study by @MidwesternUniv, @museumsofkenya, @ICP_MCrusafont (@ashleyshammond), and others
DOI: doi.org/10.1080/02724634.202…
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CERDO PREHISTÓRICO
Descubiertos en Kenia restos de una especie de pequeño cerdo (Cainochoerus) de hace 6 millones de años
📰icp.cat/index.php/es/sala-de…
vía @ICP_MCrusafont
#Mioceno #Mamiferos
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📢📢📢Lectureships at Bristol!📢📢📢
We're hiring 3 x lecturers (=assistant professor) in Biological Sciences, across the discipline.
Great department, great colleagues, great building, great city
jobs.ac.uk/job/DQM026/lectur…
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Check it out! We found the first evidence of mini-pigs at Lemudong’o, a 6 million-year-old site in southern Kenya. This is the first new species from Lemudong’o to be published in last 20 years. 🐷🐽🐷
And yes… Ashley Hammond loves little jamones! 🐖
🗞️Mini-pig with a big story: bit.ly/4rMinJb
New fossil discoveries document the presence of an extinct and unusually small pig, Cainochoerus, in eastern Africa during the late Miocene (~6 Ma). The species was far smaller than any living African pig
Thank you ICP for the coverage! It's a great pleasure working with you all! The article is free to access via tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
🗞️Mini-pig with a big story: bit.ly/4rMinJb
New fossil discoveries document the presence of an extinct and unusually small pig, Cainochoerus, in eastern Africa during the late Miocene (~6 Ma). The species was far smaller than any living African pig
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人間環境大学: 総合環境学部フィールド⾃然学科専任教員の公募（陸上動物の⽣態学・⾏動学） jrecin.jst.go.jp/seek/SeekJo…
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Our latest issue is live! anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wi…
The cover features an exciting new Homo habilis specimen from Ileret by Fred Grine and colleagues: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wi…
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Excellent write-up in @ScienceMagazine by Ann Gibbons (@evolutionscribe) of the exciting new Ileret Homo material: science.org/content/article/…
Check out the original AR article by Frederick Grine and colleagues here: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wi…
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1/ 🦴 Homo habilis skeleton KNM-ER 64061 unveiled – the oldest and most complete postcranial evidence known (~2.02–2.06 Ma). Key for understanding early human biology. #HomoHabilis #PaleoAnthro #ICP
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KNM-ER 64061, most complete Homo habilis skeleton yet (Koobi Fora) shows primitive limb proportions: long forearms, thick cortices, small body mass (~31 kg) & ~160 cm stature. Upper limbs like early Homo, but proportions differ from H. erectus
Grine et al: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wi…
I'm fortunate work with our amazing team that include @KyaloManthi @museumsofkenya, Julia Arenson at Yale, @ErinDiMaggio at Penn State, Stan Ambrose at UIUC, @AntoineSouron at U Bordeaux, and @ashleyshammond @ICP_MCrusafont
Our fieldwork is sponsored by @AMNH @RGGSatAMNH @NSF @NatGeo @TheLeakeyFndtn Our field team came from @museumsofkenya U Nairobi @uonbi and the Enkorica village of Narok
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🚨New Pub!🚨The first occurrence of Cainochoerus (Mammalia, Artiodactyla, Suidae) from the Late Miocene Lemudong’o Formation, Kenya🐷🇰🇪by Yang et al.
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…