Showing posts with label human evolution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label human evolution. Show all posts
Sunday, March 01, 2020

Neandertal/Denisovan Ancestors Interbred With Unknown Hominin

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As if the tangle of early archaic Homo sapiens relationships couldn't get any more confusing, evidence has now surfaced that the ancest...
Saturday, February 29, 2020

Evolution of the Human Foot

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Nature News has an interesting examination of how the human foot evolved the arch, the singular most important aspect in the ability to per...
Thursday, November 14, 2019

Upright Ape?

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Multiple outlets are reporting on the discovery of a fossil ape that appears to have at least a partially facultatively bipedal stance.  Her...
Sunday, July 28, 2019

New Poll From Gallup on Human Origins

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Gallup has released a new poll on what people think about human evolution .  Here is their takeaway blurb: Forty percent of U.S. adults a...
Monday, April 15, 2019

New Species of Hominin Found in Phillipines

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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...
Thursday, December 20, 2018

British Columbia Leading War in Canada against Creationism...Or Is It?

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Support for young earth creationism is, apparently, somewhat variable when it comes to the different Canadian provinces.  This is not surpri...
Tuesday, April 24, 2018

New Laetoli Footprints Demonstrate Full Bipedality

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A story running in Newsweek and the Washington Post (and other outlets, presumably), details research into the newly discovered fossil foot...
Saturday, September 02, 2017

5.7 Million Year-Old Human Footprints Found on Greek Island of Crete

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Great Googlymoogly!  This one is lighting up all over the Internet.  Fossil footprints have been found in the southern Greek Island of Crete...

Will Moroccan Schools Teach Evolution Again

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Writing for the Morocco World News, Amal Ben Hadda wonders if the discovery of more early modern human remains from the site of Jebel Irhou...
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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, May 12, 2017

New Post on Homo naledi From Darrel Falk and Deb Haarsma

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Darrel Falk and Deb Haarsma have teamed up on a new post about the peculiar South African hominin, Homo naledi , a find on which I reported...
Wednesday, April 05, 2017

New BioLogos Post on Xuchang Hominins is Up

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My BioLogos post on the Xuchang hominins is up.  Comments welcome there and here.
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Saturday, March 25, 2017

The Onion: Archaeologists Uncover Last Human To Die Happy

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The Onion has a story on how a team of archaeologists has discovered the last human to die happy : “It’s truly incredible—Felix unequivoca...
Friday, March 24, 2017

Increased Blood Flow to the Brain Helped Human Intelligence

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PhysOrg is running a story about research that focuses on the role that blood flow played in the evolution of human intelligence.  Roger Se...
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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Thursday, February 25, 2016

Human/Gorilla Split at Eight MYA?

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Scientific American is running an article, which details work by Gen Suwa and colleagues, in the Afar Triangle, where nine gorilla-sized tee...
Wednesday, February 10, 2016

The Importance of Schöningen to the Story of Human Evolution in Europe

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A lake site in northern Germany, near Schöningen, has lifted much of the veil of how advanced Homo heidelbergensis was during the later Low...
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Monday, February 08, 2016

Human Evolution in Two Minutes

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I missed this when it came out.  The Indian Express has a link to a video done By Yale University Press by John Gurche, the same artist who ...
Sunday, February 07, 2016

Here's Irony For Ya...

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A study has found that residents of South Africa, historically the hotbed of human evolutionary studies, have a poorer understanding of hum...