Showing posts with label Australopithecus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Australopithecus. Show all posts
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 15, 2019

The Brain of Little Foot

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Science Daily had a story just a bit back about research done on the new information surrounding the Little Foot australopithecine remains f...
Thursday, July 12, 2018

New Chinese Material Pushes the Exit From Africa to 2.1 mya

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Nature is reporting research on new Chinese material that strongly suggests that the Georgian site of Dmanisi is not the earliest location t...
Tuesday, May 15, 2018

How Intelligent Was Homo naledi?

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Discover Magazine (and other outlets) are running a story which questions how important cranial size is to overall intelligence.  The focus...
Saturday, September 30, 2017

Q&A With Lee Berger on Human Evolution

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The Sunday Times has an interview with Lee Berger about human evolution, in advance of his new book, co-written with John Hawks, Almost Hum...
Friday, November 11, 2016

New Study on Homo naledi

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Lauren Schroeder and colleagues have published a report on the skull of Homo naledi , in which they address the characteristics and attempt ...
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Friday, July 22, 2016

Lauren Saville: The Importance of Teaching Human Evolution

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Lauren Saville has written a post for NCSE titled "The Importance of Teaching Evolution."  Inevitably, the post deals not just wi...
Monday, June 13, 2016

H. floresiensis Not As Young or As Unique As We Thought

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In other words, so much for the pathology argument.  Many news outlets, National Geographic being one of them , are reporting on new fossil...
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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...
Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Humans and Meat

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New research by Dan Lieberman and Katherine Zink strongly supports what we have suspected for quite some time, that a substantial change in ...
Thursday, August 20, 2015

Modern Hand Digit at 1.84 Mya

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A story in Lab Equipment has spotlighted new evidence that modern human morphology was present in early hominins at 1.84 million years ago. ...
Thursday, March 05, 2015

New Jawbone Fills Gaps, Raises Questions

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A group working in the Afar Triangle has discovered a mandibular fragment with associated teeth that show strong affinities to early Homo . ...
Tuesday, July 15, 2014

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

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This is the third part of my response to David Menton's post on human origins , cited by Ken Ham in his swipe at BioLogos .  Part One h...
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...
Monday, December 31, 2012

Environment Highly Variable For Early Humans

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The Telegraph is reporting a story out of PNAS that suggest that the environment was highly variable during a critical point in our evoluti...
Saturday, May 19, 2012

Crocodile From Hell, East African Version

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Again from Discovery News, it turns out that there was a horned crocodile that lived around the time of the Australopithecines and likely a...
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 ...
Wednesday, November 16, 2011

New BioLogos Post is Up

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My new post on early Homo is up at BioLogos. As always, comments are welcome here and there. ---------------- Now playing: Emerson, Lake ...
Thursday, October 13, 2011

Frame-Shift Mutation Linked to Sympatric Speciation in Early Homo?

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According to (new?) research from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, a mutation creating a slightly different sugar...
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Thursday, June 16, 2011

New BioLogos Post Is Up

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The next BioLogos post on the Dispersal of the Australopithecines is up. As always, comments are welcome both there and here.