Showing posts with label hominids. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hominids. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Was the LCA in Europe????

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Was the last common ancestor of apes and humans in Europe?  That seems to be the gist of a study published in the PLoS One.  Nicole Mortilla...
Friday, July 27, 2012

A Good Video on Radiometric Dating

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Joy Walters has a video on BioLogos that explains in layman's terms why radiometric dating is sound and how hominin/hominid fossils have...
Saturday, January 14, 2012

Geologically Recent Ape in Europe

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Deutsche Welle world has an interesting story about dental remains that have been discovered in Europe that put Miocene apes in the region ...
Friday, March 18, 2011

Gibbons and Siamangs Booted off the Island

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Science Daily has a story about a new Primate phylogenetic tree that has been derived from sequencing 54 genetic regions in 186 species. O...
Friday, June 11, 2010

And Lo, It Was Hot...

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ScienceDaily is reporting on some research in the Turkana Basin, the area where many early hominid fossils have been found, has been a scor...
Thursday, June 10, 2010

Itadakimasu!

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That's Japanese for "Let's eat!" Taragana is reporting on research done on early hominids to determine what they ate. T...
Thursday, April 15, 2010

Not Out of the Trees?

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The Independent has a story about research indicating that our earliest human precursors might not have been as arboreal as originally thou...
Thursday, April 08, 2010

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 ...
Thursday, March 25, 2010

Possible New Hominid Species Discovered in Siberia

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Reuters is running with a story about genetic research being done on hominid material discovered in Siberia that, according to researchers,...
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Smithsonian: Discovering Our Ancestors

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The March issue of The Smithsonian Magazine has a large spread on the recent advances in human origins, including a large article on the d...
Monday, August 03, 2009

Cold Weather and Bigger Brains

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Bob Holmes of the NewScientist has a report on brain size and hominid evolution, in which it is hypothesized that modern human brains could...
Thursday, July 16, 2009

Dating Hominids Based on What the Animals at the Sites Ate

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ScienceDaily has a story on how to date fossil hominid sites based on the dental remains of the animals that lived around them. As the sto...
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Friday, June 05, 2009

After All, If You Can't Laugh at Yourself...

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The June 4 issue of Current Biology contains a study indicating that laughter goes back beyond the ape-human split. The article , in Thaindi...