Showing posts with label hominins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hominins. 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...
Tuesday, July 09, 2019

DNA Proteins Revealing Information About Human Evolution

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Since the advent of population genetics and modern techniques to examine DNA, research has focused on, first, Mitochondrial DNA and then nuc...
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, March 31, 2012

A New Species of Hominin Coeval With Lucy?

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Great Googlymoogly! A new discovery has been made in the Afar triangle that indicates that a similar species of Australopithecus that was ...
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...
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...
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...