New Date on Sahelanthropus tchadensis and Australopithecus bahrelghazali (Afarensis) http://tinyurl.com/3dz6s3 6.8 - 7.2 Ma? What's new? It was thought to be...
Wow! That's a testy little exchange on that link. getting Toumai accepted as a hominid ancestor... indeed It's definitely within the reach of evolution for...
... EDAR (ectodysplasin A receptor) harboring an Asian-specific non-synonymous single nucleotide polymorphism (1540T/C, 370Val/Ala) ... associated with ...
... Still more: http://scienceblogs.com/gnxp/2008/02/selection_but_for_what.php and more on head lice: ANSWER: It is pretty evident that European colonists...
... T.Weaver & C.Roseman 2008 EA "New developments in the genetic evidence for modern human origins" : "Evolutionary quantitative genetic analyses, in fact,...
... non-synonymous ... geographic ... arose ... rapidly ... If they had both big hairs and fine underhairs, that would be cold adaptation, but only bigger...
O Krueger 2005 Evol.Ecol.19:467-486 The evolution of Reversed Sexual size Dimorphism in hawks, falcons and owls: a comparative study Many hypotheses have been...
C Ruff 2008 JHE 54:383-390 Femoral/humeral strength in early African Homo erectus Lower-to-upper limb-bone proportions give valuable clues to locomotor ...
Since they didn't provide an approximate date of the "recent" increase in hair thickness, it is possible that E. Asians that lived in Ural-Baikal moved to...
... It does seem to be more about the inflated ego's of PAs than anything else. ... Agree. [quote] ...The radiochronological data concerning Sahelanthropus...
... argillaceous ... (containing clay, or clay like)and pelites(sedimentary rock, made of fine particles)... ancient river beds, lake shores, estuaries?...
... mudstone (any diatoms found?) Pelite (Greek Pelos, Clay) is a descriptive name for a clastic rock with a grain size of less than 1/16mm (originally sand or...
... A clock is something that is supposed to be reasonably accurate... see: http://focus.aps.org/story/v20/st9 ... Simply walking on two legs(biped), does not...
... The word "clock" is not exact, but we know what it means. Like "AAT". ... Yes, but we don't even know whether Sahelanthr walked on 2 legs on dry ground....
... Thanks, yes, but I'd like to see more specific correlations. Sahelanthr in Anthracotheriid Unit. Remakable this association of hominid fossils with...
... Yes, but not very near to the hominid fossils (Abel) here. Lakeside, but that's where fossilisation often occurs. Abel (fish) seems to be about as "wet" as...
... You may find this 2002 article(in Nature) of some interest ... as it gives some idea of the location in Chad where Toumai was found(including fauna and ...
For what it's worth I came across this statistic (which I copied down in my unregenerate days before I learned to record sources. so it's not all that useful....
... "We are gathered around the sea like frogs around a pond." - Attributed to Socrates, said to be the inspiration for the play "The Frogs". ... Michael Burns...
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