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...
... Physical characteristics Bonobo The Bonobo is more gracile (slight in form) than the Common Chimpanzee and females are somewhat smaller than males. Its...
... wrote: Naturwissenschaften. 2008 Dec 24. [Epub ahead of print] The mammal assemblage of the hominid site TM266 (Late Miocene, Chad Basin): ecological...
http://www.physorg.com/news150654813.html 'Hobbit' fossils a new species, anthropologist says January 8th, 2009 By Delthia Ricks in General Science /...
... wrote: Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2008; 17 (6): 410 DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8721.2008.00616.x Cultured Monkeys: Social Learning Cast in Stones...
Hello, Sounds like you had an interesting trip. I am currently myself in Jakarta, Indonesia, visiting my wife's family. We're not going much further than the...
Hi Anthony, I hope you're having fun in Jakarta! My experience, on two 3-week-long trips to Yucatan, has been, that it's better to get my own car to use, and...
Regarding the fears and concerns I described, it appears the Maya people have developed a social "defense" of a sort (which doubles as a superstitious belief,)...
Notes: Of course, this doesn't mean there weren't any survivors, who could have migrated elsewhere. Perhaps some survivors even remained in the same region....
Hobbit: Definitely New Species New confirmation has come forth from Stony Brook University that we humans have remarkably, in our recent past, shared the Earth...
... Phyletic affinities of Samburupithecus kiptalami: a late Miocene proconsulid AJ Olejniczak, DR Begun, E Mbua, J-J Hublin 2009 AAPA The 9.5 Ma partial...
... New light on cranial bone adhering to matrix encasing Sts 5 (³Mrs Ples²) from Sterkfontein, South Africa S. Potze & J.F. Thackeray 2009 AAPA In 1947...
... Maybe the reason A'piths had similar thumb finger porportions to modern humans is because they had a similar primary diet; cane. The musculature allowing...
... Interestingly, LB1 (Homo floresiensis) has orbits that, to my eye, appear very similar to Sahel. tchadensis (Toumai.) This is consistent with LB1/Toumai...
Note, this can be seen in the BMP file I previously uploaded to this group's file section: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Flores_Man/files/ File name:...
... A Louchart, Y Haile-Selassie, P Vignaud, A Likius & M Brunet 2008 Oryctos 7:147-167 Fossil birds from the Late Miocene of Chad and Ethiopia and ...
... http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-01/whoi-oif013009.php http://www.btinternet.com/~sa_sa/crozet_islands/crozet_islands.html These islands are not...
... Speaking of atolls, iron, and molluscs, I'm reminded of this: http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/fathers/\ photius_03bibliotheca.htm (From the histories...
Mostly a rehash. I had not seen the explaination of LB1 being female because of leg bones before. Explaination for why there were no sea shells in Liang Bua...
Thanks, somitcw. I found this reader comment to be very interesting: "JOEROD wrote: 1h 45m ago I would just like to inform anyone interested that I saw similar...