Joe: Maybe. But haven't there been other techniques of extracting DNA, which have made essentially the same claim? Anne G "The applications for this...
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Joe: IIRC when I read the article, they didn't mention what kind of hominids were there, nor what kind of tools. . . . Anne G Malawi could be the cradle of...
Ed: This is quite possible. Pääbo seems to be moving away, somewhat, from the absolutist, "no admixture, lots of differences" position he took in the early...
... hominids were there, nor what kind of tools. . . . ... http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE59M40820091023?feedTyp\ e=RSS&feedName=scienceNews...
All: This may be what Svante Pääbo was talking about when some other "science reporters" garbled the story(as usual). Anne G All: This may be what Svante...
Anne, Well, if you really want to bypass the "garbling" of science reporters, you should have a look at the the original article published by TimesOnline:...
Jacques: This is getting -- and I hope it causes no offense whatever, for I don't mean any -- hilarious! You see, I first read about all of this via the John...
All: You are not going to believe this, but. . . . the avatar I use most often when I use avatars(and the "sort of" model for the heroine of my Great Medieval...
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... And in the same issue: http://blogs.sciencemag.org/origins/2009/10/primatologists-go-ape-over-ard.html -- Robert A. Walker, Ph.D. Biological Anthropologist...
Robert: I read that. I read a lot of stuff from Michael Balter. He is one of the few science writers around for whom I actually have a great deal of respect....
All: I'm passing this edition of Explorator(which sometimes has interesting stuff about human origins) on to you. If you scroll down and then click on the...
This link<http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/beta/evolution/becoming-human-part-1.html> takes you to a preview of part one of a three-parter, which seems to cover ...
Dave: Punk Eq has its place, because it apparently has happened, and it may well have happened to the australopithecines. But why does it have to be...
Don't know if it will. That was just a guess from the preview, but isn't Becoming Human the name of Johansen's website? I guess I'll find out in less than an...
P.S. The animations were so-so Dave ... P.S. The animations were so-so Dave On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Dave Timpe < dptimpe@... > wrote: It turns...
"....continued evolution will not translate into ever-increasing fitness"...... Â Who thought that it would? We'd have Mach 5 cheetahs chasing Mach 4 cruising...
"Anthro Blog Carnival Category: Archaeology • Blogging Posted on: November 6, 2009 9:56 AM, by Martin R The seventy-ninth Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is...