Showing posts with label Homo heidelbergensis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Homo heidelbergensis. 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, July 27, 2019

Chris Stringer: Meet the Relatives

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Chris Stringer has a post in the Financial Times titled Meet the Relatives .  It is sort of a whirlwind tour through the evolution of the ge...
Monday, October 15, 2018

Neandertal Teeth 450Ky Old Found in Italy

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The Smithsonian is reporting that excavations in Italy have uncovered teeth dated to 450 thousand years ago that have Neandertal character...
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...
Wednesday, August 16, 2017

New DNA Analysis Allows for Greater Understanding of Modern Human Prehistory

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From Science Daily : A University of Utah-led team developed a new method for analyzing DNA sequence data to reconstruct the early history...
Friday, July 07, 2017

Genetic Data Indicates Another Migration of Archaic Homo sapiens Out of Africa

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Ars Technica is running a story based off of a Nature Communications article about a migration of archaic Homo sapiens out of Africa that ...
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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Monday, June 06, 2016

Humans and Fire

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It had been conventional wisdom that the origin of bipedality occurred in a forest/fringe environment and that a move to the savannah during...
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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Thursday, June 05, 2014

Dennis Venema on Human Evolution and Palaeogenomics

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Dennis Venema is doing the genetics end of human evolution.  He has, as with most evolutionary creationists, taken the long view of creatio...
Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Study: Neandertal Speech and Language Abilities Like Modern Humans

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Science Daily has a story on Neandertal speech.  Work by Dan Didiu and Stephen Levinson suggests that Neandertals and modern humans share a...
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 ...
Thursday, March 17, 2011

Another Species of Homo??

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There is, if you believe the work coming out of Max Planck Institute. According to an article in Der Spiegel: The human family just got a n...
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Thursday, February 24, 2011

“Oh, My Aching Back!”

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Researchers working with human fossil material between 400 and 500 thousand years ago, from the Sima de Los Huesos, have discovered a Homo h...