Showing posts with label Homo ergaster. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Homo ergaster. Show all posts
Saturday, August 08, 2020

Another Mystery Ancestor Joins The Group

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Science Daily has a story on genetic work done by researchers at Cornell University and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory that suggests that th...
Saturday, December 16, 2017

Modern Humans Came Out of Africa Earlier Than Thought and Did So Multiple Times

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If you have been studying human evolution, this story is not new.We have suspected for some time that humans migrated out of Africa in waves...
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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Friday, October 21, 2016

Of Stone Tools and Human Cognition

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One of the things that is taught in human origins classes all over the world is that the earliest stone tools were likely made at the site o...
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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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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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Friday, June 08, 2012

Middle Pleistocene Hominin Height

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Science Daily has a story on work being done with the material from the Sima de los Huesos cave at Atapuerca. 27 complete long bones have ...
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...
Tuesday, March 22, 2011

First Use of Fire in Europe Later Than Thought

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New Scientist is reporting that examination of the earliest evidence of controlled fire in Europe has pushed it forward in time to around 4...