Yes, that's right! Little people like the hobbit could still be in some cave in some rainforest or island right now! I never would have believed it, but...
Interesting material from Marc, much of which overlaps with, or is consistent with, my OOTI (Out of the Islands) hypotheses. Dan ... Robin ... idea ... or ... ...
... It's funny how animal research so often lags behind what many people already knew, for many years. I've often heard of, and seen, examples of situations...
Part of a thread over in the AAT group, which I thought would be relevant here. Dan ... Marc, I think that is likely. We know that water, being denser than...
Good stuff. I'm reminded of the study of orangutan brain structures, which claimed evidence of orangutans having been much more social, in the past. The...
"Such links would support an 'into Africa' scenario." ... Dan ... Geology Museum Rutgers University DARWIN DAY 2009 Saturday, January 31, 2009 Geological Hall...
... The International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences The 16th World Congress IUAES July 13 to July 23 2008, postpoined to July 27 to July...
I think this is interesting in several ways... it's a potentially valuable specimen in its own right, representing a member of a particular population at a...
... Hello m3d, That's part of the picture, yes. I'm also particularly interested in the big cats that reached the islands... the oldest big cat fossils found...
... Hello Marc, I don't think a gradual transition is the only plausible scenario. For instance, we can try to take into account standing variation within a...
... Great article! I've been arguing in this direction since I was in secondary (Junior High) school. The teachers just thought I was nuts. It can take ...
(Danger, Will Robinson: Do not read, if you don't like theoretical physics. Heheheh...) Did our cosmos exist before the big bang? 10 December 2008 by Anil...
More general info., for anyone interested who may have missed or forgotten it, from my P.S. in this thread, posted to this group, on August 23, 2007: "P.S,...
Hi all, I'm posting from Oxkutzcab, Yucatan, Mexico. We arrived late last night. One of my first orders of business is to buy batteries for the four Leaf...
I assume that it is a misprint but my Discover magazine arrived yesterday and has: "But Robert B. Eckhardt, an evolutionary biologist at Penn State University,...
... Descriptions of the upper limb skeleton of Homo floresiensis JHE in Press, Corrected Proof, online 4 December 2008 Susan G. Larson, William L. Jungers,...
... Descriptions of the lower limb skeleton of Homo floresiensis JHE in Press, Corrected Proof, online 4 December 2008 William L. Jungers, Susan G. Larson, W....
Hi somitcw, You make some good points. I agree that testing of Rampasasa Y- chromosomal DNA, etc., is warranted, in this context. As for the DNA, it is...
... The metabolic cost of walking in humans, chimpanzees, and early hominins H Pontzer, DA Raichlen and MD Sockol 2009 JHE 56:43-54 Bipedalism is a defining...
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I'm back from Yucatan, Mexico. It was a lot of fun, and I was able to set up all four of my Leaf River trail cams. I set up of the cameras about 10 meters...
Oops, two minor corrections: "I set up of the cameras about 10 meters away" should read, "I set up one of the cameras about 10 meters away". Also, "the Malix...
Another note: Some things I've reported about Maya words, here in the past, turn out to be not quite correct. I learned this after having some conversations...
Below, I reply to one of m3d's posts, in the AAT group. Dan ... Hi m3d, There appears to be an extraordinary degree of dissonance, on this subject. The CNV...
I had always heard that the Platypus was the only known venom- producing mammal. Yet another myth busted, it appears! Link to story, with photo: Venomous...