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r/paleoanthropology

16.6K members. The best post we have captured here reached 1K upvotes, which works out to 61 per 1,000 members.

61peak upvotes per 1,000 members
16.6Kmembers
1Kbest post
316most comments
100posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

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Image 56% Link 19% Text 10% Gallery 8% Video 4% Question 3%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Discussion 27 Hominins 25 News 15 Question 10 Research Paper 7 Tools & Technology 5 Theory/Speculation 4 Genetics 3 Recommendation Request 1 Find/Field Photo 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Hominins with white sclera is not "anthropomorphism"

↑ 1K 💬 26 image 2025

Neanderthals may have trekked through the Saudi Arabian desert 55,000 years ago, farther south than experts thought possible

↑ 470 💬 22 link 2026

Ancient human relative cannibalized both adults and children in a cave in Spain 850,000 years ago, fossils reveal

↑ 439 💬 34 link 2026

It seems Australian aboriginals have the highest Neanderthal DNA

↑ 430 💬 40 image 2025

Neanderthals and I have more in common than I expected.

↑ 430 💬 36 image 2026

Early-Middle Pleistocene bottleneck : when humans were reduced to an effective population size of just 1280

↑ 406 💬 23 image 2025

If Homo neanderthalensis had lived until the 21st century how tall would they be?

↑ 351 💬 105 image 2026

Scientists think they finally know why Neanderthals vanished

↑ 345 💬 80 link 2026

Did Homo Erectus Speak? Almost Certainly, Say Scientists

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Deep Inside A Cave, Neanderthals Built A Circular Structure Made Of Stalagmites 176,500 Years Ago

↑ 326 💬 6 link 2026

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