Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts
Thursday, February 13, 2020

The Ghost of an Unknown Hominin

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Science Alert has a story about the Ghost of an Unknown Hominin in Africa.  Carly Cassella writes: The gene pool of modern West Africans c...
Monday, March 25, 2019

Genetic Data Suggests That Early Modern Humans Migrated From South to East Africa

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Science Daily is running a story that supports the idea that modern humans migrated from South to East Africa before exiting the continent....
Friday, January 18, 2019

'Swiss Army knife of prehistoric tools' Found in China

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Science Daily is on a roll.  This came out a bit back during the late semester crunch and I didn't get a chance to post about it.  Stone...
Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Modern Humans Interbred with Two Groups of Denisovans

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There is now more evidence that were were “ one big happy family .”  Here is a short recap: Beginning around 1.8 million years ago, a homi...
Friday, February 02, 2018

Indian Site of Attirampakkam Pushes Middle Palaeolithic of India Back to 385 Kya

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Great Googlymoogly!  Fresh on the heels of the discovery of the Misliya site (upcoming BioLogos post) that the Middle Palaeolithic Levalloi...
Wednesday, October 04, 2017

Why Is Homo floresiensis Still Such a Mystery?

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Cosmos Magazine has an article by Debbie Argue, biological anthropologist from Australian National University, about Homo floresiensis and...
Saturday, September 30, 2017

Did Humans Become a Distinct Species 350, 000 Years Ago?

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The hits just keep on coming.  On the heels of the discovery in Morocco, at Jebel Irhoud, of a skull with some modern characteristics dated ...
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Thursday, March 24, 2016

More Evidence of Hybrization Between Archaics and Moderns in Africa

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Nature 's Research Highlights points to a paper written for the journal Genome Research, in which the authors, using whole genome analys...
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Tuesday, June 24, 2014

New Investigations at the Sima de los Huesos Cave in Atapuerca: Kind of Neandertal and Kind of Not

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Science Daily is reporting on a new paper in Science , about the conclusions drawn from the largest single cache of human remains in one pl...
Monday, June 23, 2014

The Origins of Modern Humans, The Fossil Evidence, Part II

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The second of my BioLogos posts on the fossil evidence concerning the origins of modern humans is up. 
Monday, June 16, 2014

BioLogos Post: The Origins of Modern Humans, Part 1 Is Up!

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The first of three posts on the origins of modern humans is up over at BioLogos.  As always, comments are welcome there and here.
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Monday, June 20, 2011

Next BioLogos Post is Up

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Part two of the Dispersal of the Australopithecines is up over at BioLogos. This covers the south African forms as well as the extinction...
Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Hominids Ahoy!

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It turns out that archaic Homo sapiens or perhaps even Homo erectus may have actually taken to the water in some sort of light craft. Br...
Thursday, October 08, 2009

New Mystery Find in South Africa

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Lee Berger and Francis Thackeray have found "something" in South Africa. They just ain't sayin' what. Times Online has t...
Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Out of Europe????

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Bob Holmes of the New Scientist is reporting on a spectacular find in Spain of a 12 million year old primate that seems to show characteris...