Mol Biol Evol. 2006 Dec 20; Genetic Evidence for the Convergent Evolution of Light Skin in Europeans and East Asians. Norton HL, Kittles RA, Parra E,...
I was wondering if you could give me an analysis of Clyde Winters claims? African Origin of Dravidian speaking People by CA Winters There are two mtDNA and...
To clarify: There are two different reasons I can discern, for LB1 to have a greater mass of bone marrow: #1 being useful for hiding the fat during "lean"...
Here's a message (my reply to a member of Palanthsci) dealing with the issues of fat storage in bone marrow, reproduction, and relevant survival and...
HUH?! Joao Zilhao ,Erik Trinkaus and company must be floresiensis hybrids. I have never seen such a perfectly modern skull as the one they are all excited...
Jim: If you look carefully at the picture, it seems to have some, uh, rather "archaic" characteristics. Anne G ... avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. ...
This group is not very active. I would like to propose that it becomes a forum for all those who've got fed up with the take-over of many other palaeoanthro...
A recent exchange from Paleoanthro: Tony Baker [who is somewhat of an expert on stone tools - see http://www.ele.net/acheulean/handaxe.htm ... question. ... ...
I'm sorry Anne, But the morphologies of that skull would be perfectly comfortable in ANY of us today! In the frontal view that I have seen, I could see ...
... time frame to the MP, with differences on the scale of a couple tens of thousands of years. I am no longer convinced of the appropriateness and ...
... similar ... tens of ... appropriateness and ... describe a ... excellent ... not a ... I very much agree with your stone tool categorisation, (Mode ...
It is pretty instructive of just how shaky the current OoA model is to elaborate on an Asian-centered gene-tree. Actually, the only postulate needed to justify...
Inferring Plio-Pleistocene southern African biochronology from facial affinities in Parapapio and other fossil papionins. * Williams FL,* Ackermann RR,* Leigh...
Hobbit cave digs set to restart Archaeologists who found the remains of human "Hobbits" have permission to restart excavations at the cave where the specimens...
At last, news that many of us have been waiting for! Dan http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6294101.stm Hobbit cave digs set to restart Archaeologists...
Ann Hum Genet. 2007 Jan 17; Signatures of Positive Selection in Genes Associated with Human Skin Pigmentation as Revealed from Analyses of Single Nucleotide...
I cannot prove anything nor am I a research scientist of any type. I read in book few years ago the author stated that European or white skin color may have...
I am not a professional, but have read quite a bit. That theory is almost pure conjecture, and as such, cannot be proven or disproven. All I can say is that it...
Precisly my arguement. If South Africans have a higher frequency of Albinism than Western Europeans then wouldn't that point to and african origin for the gene...
Im no expert, but this is what i've read, which hasnt been a lot mind you.... so basically the sun gives us vitamin D. So the stronger the sun, the more Vit....
MW: Europeans have both thinner and more depigmented skin than other human populations. And thinner and more depigmented skin enables Europeans to absorb more...
MW: Basically, this abstract suggest that the common ancestors of all modern populations had dark skin. And lighter skin evolved in parallel in European and...
About 200 years ago when I was a student at Uni, we were taught that the lighter skins of the northern populations of humans were the result of neoteny in far...
Polar bears have black skin. Humans in equatoreal climes wore no clothing, humans in temperate climes wore clothing. DDeden ... the lighter skins of the...