Showing posts with label Homo habilis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Homo habilis. 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...
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...
Tuesday, October 03, 2017

Genetic Model Identifies Paranthropus boisei as Vector For Transmission of Herpes Virus

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CNN (usual caveats) reports on a study that identifies Paranthropus boisei as the likely transmission vector of genital HSV-1.  From the st...
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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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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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, 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...
Wednesday, August 08, 2012

Two Hominin Species Running Around At 1.9 Mya

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Meave Leakey and some colleagues 1 have unearthed and described some new fossil hominins from Koobi Fora that seem to confirm that, yes, th...
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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 ...
Saturday, September 10, 2011

Nature News Story on Au. sediba

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Nature News has a story on the Australopithecus sediba skeleton described by Lee Berger and colleagues.  Ewen Callaway writes: At around...
Thursday, September 08, 2011

Au. sediba Now Considered Possible Ancestor to Homo

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New research is suggesting that the overall anatomy of Australopithecus sediba makes it the best candidate for being ancestral to Homo .  T...
Monday, June 20, 2011

Peter Ungar: Homo erectus Ate More Diverse Things than Homo habilis

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University of Arkansas researcher Peter Ungar has found evidence that the diet of Homo erectus was more variable than that of Homo habilis, ...
Monday, April 12, 2010

Casey Luskin on The Smithsonian Human Origins Exhibit

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Casey Luskin has an article on Evolution, News & Views on the Smithsonian exhibit called " What Does It Mean To Be Human? " ...
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Friday, April 09, 2010

Australopithecus sediba Articles in Science

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The Science Magazine articles on A. sediba are out. They are free for the time being. You just have to register at the site. The two ar...
Thursday, April 08, 2010

CNN Story on Australopithecus sediba

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CNN has a story on the new hominid, complete with picture, which is now tentatively being called Australopithecus sediba . It is truly rem...

More on the Hominid Discovery

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The Telegraph has a larger , more in-depth article on the discovery in South Africa of the early Homo remains. Richard Gray writes: Experts ...

New Hominid from South Africa Fills Gap

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Lee Burger has discovered a hominid specimen that fills some of the holes between australopithecines and early Homo . The article by Chris...

Anika Smith Comments on Hominid Discovery

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Anika Smith of the Discovery Institute has written a comment on the hominid find that could help bridge the gap between the australopitheci...