All: John Hawks has, as usual, come out with a nice blog entry on the problems and contradictions in modern human origins studies. It is based on the current...
This is not just daft speculation. There has been a quite recent precedent in the Fore tribe of Papua New Guinea, who suffered from a prion disease called kuru...
Dear all, I am going to be offering my online archaeology courses again, starting at the end of March 2008. The courses and the schedules are given below: ...
But the Fore are the only known cases, while other cannibals have been known to exist without such problems. In the case of the Fore, the women and children...
Richard: You kind of miss the point here. Stories about "Neandertal cannibalism" are not new. They are at least as old as Kranberger-Gorjanovic's discovery of...
Dave: Do prions misfold with any frequency? It doesn't sound like they do, or there would probably be a lot more prion diseases than there are. Anne G But the...
I don't know the frequency, but it must be pretty low. Conventional CJD is the result in humans, and it's a rare disease. Nobody has figured out how chronic...
There is something anyhow, which I don't understand about prions. Proteins are made by transcribing and translating genes. The proteins are checked in the ER...
All: Julien Riel-Salvatore's blog *A Very Remote Period Indeed* has an extensive --- and what I consider to be a very good --- critique of the recent idea that...
Ok, thanks. Actually, I'd read the Wikipedia article, but not carefully enough, I guess. Skimmed it rather, I suppose. This makes it clear in a nutshell. ...
All: Over at the blog Afarensis, there is an interesting snippet(though not much news), that a paper has come out claiming that the Flores people were "modern"...
Bloglines user AnneGilbert (avgilbert@...) has sent this item to you, with the following personal message: All: Okay. Here's where Afarensis got this...
... enough to breed. Paul: Consider that high-fashion models are disabled by their spiked heels and emaciation, and are also not known for their sparks of...
I'm a paediatrician in training. Untreated congenital hypothyroidism is thankfully almost a relic of the dark ages in the west but affected individuals would...
What he said! :) Jack ... From: Ed Haworth To: palanthsci@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 3:07 PM Subject: Re: [palanthsci] Hobbits were dwarf...
... <wolf_thunder51@...> wrote: <snip> ... deficiency that substantially affects its growth and development is disabled, and would be very unlikely to survive...
Paul: I'm just the bearer of the message. Doesn't necessarily mean I agree with the contents(or disagree with them, as the case may be). Anne G I can't...
Ed: Didn't know you were a pediatrician in training(hope you'll be forgiving of the "American spelling"). But these "medical hypotheses" come and go. I can...
Daryl: You are right to point out that "disability" is more or less "relative". Up to a point, that is. Your example of women iin high heels, however, leaves...
Anne,If anyone wants to download the PDF for the complete article,it can be obtained by following the Royal Society link. [bob] avgilbert@... wrote:...
FWIW, at our university, "Human Ecology" is the new name for the "Home Economics" department, which gives courses on, for instance, "Fashion Marketing". One...
Joe and all: This is just another skirmish in the ongoing "hobbit wars". Personally, I am "agnostic" about who, or what, these "hobbits" may turn out to be. ...
Having problems with message search?
Fill out this form to ensure your group is one of the first to be migrated to the new message search system.
