Showing posts with label Early Homo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Early Homo. Show all posts
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...
Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Australopithecus sediba Voted Off the Island

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This does not surprise me.  Science Magazine has a short story which suggests strongly that the characteristics in Au. sediba render it uns...
Tuesday, May 09, 2017

Surprising New Information About Homo naledi

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The Atlantic (and other outlets) has a story on new information on the date of the Homo naledi fossils from Rising Star Cave and it is...su...
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, September 10, 2015

Early Homo in South Africa

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The New York Times is reporting on a new find out of South Africa, by Lee Berger and his team, that indicates the presence of early Homo t...
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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, May 21, 2015

Earliest Stone Tools?

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Artifacts have been found near Lake Turkana that are reported to be the earliest stone tools yet produced.  Live Science has this : Until ...
Sunday, April 05, 2015

New Dates For Little Foot Push It Back to Au. afarensis Time-Period

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On the heels of the Ledi jaw dates for early Homo at 2.8 million years ago, and the corresponding tentative conclusion that only Au. afaren...
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Monday, March 30, 2015

Elizabeth Mitchell, David Menton and Andrew Snelling Take on the Ledi Jaw

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As noted, the promised report from Answers in Genesis about the Ledi jaw (LD 350-1) is out.  Let's see what they say.  This is an inter...
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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 . ...
Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Oldest Footprints Outside of Africa

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Fossil footprints have been found in England that are thought to be 800,000 years old.  As Science Daily puts it : The importance of the H...
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Thursday, January 09, 2014

HufPo: What We Learned About Human Origins In 2013 Will Blow Your Mind

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The Huffington Post has a story on the advances in human origins for the last year.  In the realm of modern human origins: Recent analyses...
Tuesday, November 12, 2013

"Single Evolving Lineage of Early Homo"

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This was reported a month or so back.  A new fossil has been described from the site of Dmanisi, the 1.8 million year-old site in the Russia...
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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...