Showing posts with label Ardipithecus ramidus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ardipithecus ramidus. Show all posts
Friday, November 15, 2019

Todd Wood's Take on Danuvius

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Todd Wood is always interesting to read, even if I don't share his chronological leanings.  He has thoughts on the new Miocene ape from ...
Tuesday, March 05, 2019

More Evidence For Bipedality at 4.5 MYA

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Out of Case Western Reserve comes a study of some new fossil material that sheds like on early human bipedal adaptation.  From ScienceDaily ...
Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Mutation Rate in Humans Has Slowed Down

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I am not quite sure what this means, yet. Researchers at the Aarhus University, Denmark, and the Copenhagen Zoo have discovered that, when c...
Tuesday, January 22, 2019

My Favorite Fossil Post Up on BioLogos

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Unbeknownst to me, my “My Favorite Fossil” post on BioLogos is up .  You can view it here.  Comments welcome in both places. 
Tuesday, April 24, 2018

New Laetoli Footprints Demonstrate Full Bipedality

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A story running in Newsweek and the Washington Post (and other outlets, presumably), details research into the newly discovered fossil foot...
Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Ardipithecus May Not Have Been Entirely a Facultative Biped After All

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In a new article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , several researchers have concluded, using 3D morphometric analysis...
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Monday, June 06, 2016

Humans and Fire

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It had been conventional wisdom that the origin of bipedality occurred in a forest/fringe environment and that a move to the savannah during...
Thursday, July 31, 2014

BioLogos, Ken Ham and David Menton—A Response, Part VI: The Conclusion

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This concludes my response to David Menton's post on human origins, which has been a chore to read and respond to. Menton's conclusi...
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Wednesday, July 16, 2014

BioLogos, Ken Ham and David Menton—A Response, Part IV

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This is the fourth part of my response to David Menton's post on human origins.  Links to the first three appear below this post.  Ment...
Monday, January 13, 2014

New Study: Ardipithecus ramidus Derived In Human Direction

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According to Bill Kimbel and colleagues, the skull of Ardipithecus ramidus shows tell-tale signs of being derived in the human direction aw...
Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Orrorin tugenensis: As Close to the Last Common Ancestor As We Have Gotten?

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Based on work by SUNY Stoney Brook, it has been learned that the femur of Orrorin tugenensis , the six-million year-old presumed hominin, al...
Saturday, March 31, 2012

A New Species of Hominin Coeval With Lucy?

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Great Googlymoogly! A new discovery has been made in the Afar triangle that indicates that a similar species of Australopithecus that was ...
Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Did Competition Put Us On Our Feet?

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Simply, yes. That is not earth-shattering. Cambridge News has a story on work done with chimpanzees that seems to confirm that behavioral ...
Monday, August 08, 2011

The Role of Savannahs in Human Evolution

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It now appears that grassland savannahs stretched further than originally thought during the critical time when human precursors became bipe...
Wednesday, March 09, 2011

Bernard Wood and Terry Harrison on Early Human Origins

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Bernard Wood and Terry Harrison, two of the preeminent scholars in the study of human origins think that we are assimilating too many fossil...
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Tuesday, February 01, 2011

More Evidence For A Gradual Shift to Bipedalism

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Discovery News has a story on work that is being done on early hominid locomotion. Jennifer Viegas writes: Early human ancestors stopped s...
Wednesday, January 05, 2011

BioLogos Post

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The third BioLogos post, on the origins of bipedality and Ardipithecus , is up . Darrel actually changed the title a bit from “Bipedality—t...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Ardipithecus Meets Modern Technology

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The question of whether or how well Ardipithecus could walk has been hot since the discovery and description of the find were announced las...
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010

New 3.6 Million Year Old A. afarensis Remains

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Science Daily reports that Yohannes Haile-Selassie's team in Ethiopia have found the remains of a 3.6 million year old Australopithecus...
Saturday, June 05, 2010

Casey Luskin on Ardipithecus

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Casey Luskin thinks that Ardipithecus is "washed up." He writes : In some ways, the career of a missing link mirrors the career of...
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