Richard Parker wrote: (re. paper by Larick et. al. on the distribution of H. erectus): "This article is deadly serious, and 100% genuine. I tried to make up an...
... present a lot of detail and the hypothesis seems quite feasible. Paul: Some of the detail is specious. Note that the text descriptions and the graphic...
... areas ... a ... the "parallel" ... in ... of ... reach ... Couldn't have put it better. This deserves an entry in the 'Annals of Palaeoanthropology Vol...
Paul says in part: " ... it is unproven that H.erectus sought out environments that favoured the eventual exhumation of their fossilised remains. However, it...
(O: Oops, sorry: Lifted quote was Daryl's in response to Paul, agreeing with Richard; and April 1st greets shoulda' been to Richard, Daryl, Paul and All ......
Whatever shortcomings their geological description has, I think the taphonomic critique both you and Bob make is more significant. Erectines would have been...
Dave: I've just glanced at the article, and I didn't really notice the date. But assertions about erectines gravitating toward "tectonically unstable" areas...
To anyone who didn't get the point of my April 1st post, I should explain that we Brits venerate April Fool's Day with great seriousness, and anything goes...
Bloglines user AnneGilbert (avgilbert@...) has sent this item to you, with the following personal message: All: Apparently JHE is going to publish an...
All: An interesting-sounding case is coming to trial in Austria. Do chimps have human right? Should they have human rights? Read the article in this link: ...
My main problem with the hypothesis is the assumption that dogs are "gentler and kinder" than wolves. The reverse is commonly the case - dogs can afford to...
Dave Timpe saw this story on the BBC News website and thought you should see it. ** Message ** Found near Beijing. Modern, with some archaic characters, dated...
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Very interesting find. I look forward to reading the paper. In the mean time the newsflash as usual creates more questions than it provides answers. ...
One of the so-called "primitive features" is large front teeth, and the authors say that it is unlikely that they could re-evolve them. Yet the range of size...
Very good point there. It could apply to more than teeth, but it works very well there. Trinkaus finding yet another example where he sees admixture is not...
This page was sent to you by: dptimpe@.... Scrub jays, etc. SCIENCE | April 3, 2007 Time in the Animal Mind By CARL ZIMMER Several recent experiments...
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Torfinn: Naturally, these "science news" reports never tell you very much, and they just whet your appetite for more. But seriously, I think it is wonderful...
Paul: You are, of course, correct that human populations vary tremendously in various characteristics. And just to make things more complicated and messy, they...
... wrote: ... animals ... doesn't ... present. ... I only know what I've seen in the odd TV doco, but I suspect the theory is that by releasing them on an...
Additional note: Chimpanzees and bonobos have also reportedly hybridized, and formed viable breeding populations, in zoos. Dan ... A few notes: - I'm reminded...
... Thanks a lot, Richard. "Our modern human life-history package goes beyond just shifts in skeletal and dental timing. It combines a prolonged period of...
... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/palanthsci/files/Growing%20up%20slowly%20160%2C0 ... skeletal ... age at ... learn to ... which it ... life-history ... the...
This page was sent to you by: dptimpe@.... May have some relevance to Flores and island dwarfing. Or maybe the Flores giant rats (note the bit about...
Abstract is included, as is a link to the paper, but that didn't work when I tried it. It seems that for whatever value it has in the OoA vs. MREH context,...
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