This is pretty interesting. Thought-provoking, at least. Dan ... I have recently responded to an enquiry by Francois de Sarre regarding the early evolution of...
... Maybe I'm missing something here, but how can that be the oldest known occurrence of blades? Stone tools, including blades, discovered on Flores Island,...
... Correction: The Flores tools I mentioned are even older than I stated. (Up to 840,000 years old.) Early stone technology on Flores and its implications...
... http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/04/03/bonobo-outbreak-update-from-democratic-republic-of-congo/ not sure about common chimps, but bonobos,...
... Thanks, DD. It appears to me, that some of the Flores tools fit the "blade" description, at least as well as these 500ka African artifacts. Photo of 500ka...
... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4083517.stm Digging was the most frequent type of tool use observed. The monkeys typically held the stone with...
... DDeden, Good points. I think that islands would generally select for tool use in primates, as well. Plenty of stone available on most islands, and...
This problem is much bigger than a California problem... I'm hoping that underwater archaeology will advance sufficiently, to uncover as much of the vast...
... Yes, and I note this: Most likely, before the use of boats/rafts, most ancient human foraging took place in calm waters of lagoons and bays rather than...
Received this in my email today, from the non-profit Life Extension Foundation. It seems that the results of studies revealing the importance of Omega 3 fatty...
A couple people posting over in the AAT group apparently are not aware of the modern clinical studies, surrounding omega 3 fatty acids, and like to abrasively...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19342079?dopt=Abstract J Hum Evol. 2009 Mar 31. [Epub ahead of print] The evolving landscape and climate of western Flores:...
Very interesting, about the hominoid ankles 4 million years ago. This fossil morphological evidence further supports what I've been saying about chimps and...
... Yes. ... In some instances, yes. ... It's clear that many early apes were "vertical" (hanging, floating, wading...), but this is not the same as "bipedal"...
... Marc, I mainly agree, but I think bipedal locomotion is very ancient... I strongly suspect that our LCA with macaques and baboons, was bipedal, or...
... http://johnhawks.net/weblog/reviews/early_hominids/anatomy/desilva-2009-chimpanzee-climbing-talus.html does not bode well for the 'orangutan-like thin...
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/D/DINOSAUR_CRIMES Apr 14, 9:32 PM EDT Paleontologist pleads guilty to stealing bones By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press...
... http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/04/13/0900270106.abstract?etoc Functional morphology of the ankle and the likelihood of climbing in early hominins ...
... In my opinion, orangs probably became more arboreal when big cats entered their range, just a few million years ago. Gibbons were probably exposed to the...
... Hi Marc, ... [snip] ... Given the sparse evidence, perhaps there were already semi-bipedal ground-walkers among the primates, 30 Ma, but we don't know it,...
Another hominid found in Chad... ("Toumai" is, by far, the older of the two.) Dan ... Australopithecus bahrelghazali is a fossil hominin that was first...
... http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-04/du-fse041709.php [lobe fin -> ray fin] Fossils suggest earlier land-water transition of tetrapod DURHAM,...
Did Humans Learn From Hobbits? http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/417/3 <http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/417/3> This...
I'm forwarding a few messages from the AAT group, on this topic. I've talked about this topic before. I think it's one of the pieces of evidence for OOTI...
... Baboon endogenous virus genomes in four species of baboons and five other genera of Old World monkeys: Evidence for infection postspeciation Virology,...
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