Showing posts with label australopithecines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label australopithecines. Show all posts
Monday, April 15, 2019

New Species of Hominin Found in Phillipines

›
From a story in UPI : At the completion of excavations on the island of Luzon, scientists had unearthed several teeth, part of a thigh bon...
Tuesday, January 15, 2019

The Brain of Little Foot

›
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

›
Nature is reporting research on new Chinese material that strongly suggests that the Georgian site of Dmanisi is not the earliest location t...
Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Australopithecus sediba Voted Off the Island

›
This does not surprise me.  Science Magazine has a short story which suggests strongly that the characteristics in Au. sediba render it uns...
Thursday, October 27, 2016

Lucy Fell From a Tree?

›
New research from John Kappelman suggests that the australopithecine specimen known as Lucy, the famous find from the 1970s that put hominin...
1 comment:
Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Humans and Meat

›
New research by Dan Lieberman and Katherine Zink strongly supports what we have suspected for quite some time, that a substantial change in ...
Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Elizabeth Mitchell, Homo naledi and the Straw Man

›
Elizabeth Mitchell, of Answers in Genesis, has written the rebuttal to the eLife Science paper on the new hominin find from South Africa, H...
1 comment:
Sunday, September 20, 2015

Darrel Falk's Post on Homo naledi

›
Darrel Falk has a short post on Homo naledi , in which he discusses the nature of the science and misconceptions that we have had with regar...
1 comment:
Sunday, May 31, 2015

BioLogos Blurb about Australopithecus deyiremeda

›
My blurb about the new australopithecine is included in the Saturday Science Links at the BioLogos site.  There will be a longer piece next...
2 comments:
Wednesday, May 27, 2015

New Hominin Species Coeval with Au. afarensis

›
A new hominin has been announced by Haile-Selassie and colleagues.  Here is the abstract from the Nature paper 1 : Middle Pliocene hominin...
1 comment:
Thursday, July 31, 2014

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

›
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...
2 comments:
Tuesday, July 15, 2014

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

›
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, July 14, 2014

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

›
Point 3: Because of the rarity of fossil hominids, even many of those who specialize in the evolution of man have never actually seen an...
2 comments:
Friday, September 27, 2013

Science Daily: "Anthropologists Confirm Link Between Cranial Anatomy and Two-Legged Walking"

›
This sort of fits under the category of "gee, who knew" but it is nice to finally have confirmation of something that has been tac...