Proc. R. Soc. B DOI 10.1098/rspb.2007.0330 Online Date Tuesday, May 01, 2007 The isotopic ecology of African mole rats informs hypotheses on the evolution of...
Note, orangutans and gibbons move bipedally while on the ground. Perhaps their LCA was not only terrestrial, but bipedal (or semi- bipedal) as well. Dan ... ...
... Exactly. The most interesting feature of Homo floresiensis isn't its size. We have small people in Africa, as well. By far the most interesting feature is...
This abstract is by Jordi Augusti, for the book "Handbook of Paleoanthropology", which I will never own, because it costs too much (: (): "The habitat of the...
... The key words here are: - Middle Miocene Climatic Crisis - worldwide spread of grasses between 8 and 7Mya Can somebody give me so --independent-- evidence...
Interesting article but it seems a bit specultive given our current understanding of the Hobbits. First off, my impression of the controversy over whether...
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 Apr 23; [Epub ahead of print] European early modern humans and the fate of the Neandertals. * Trinkaus E. Department of...
... MW: Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus had relatively smaller canines than the earliest members of Homo. So Homo does not appear to have evolved...
... MW: Cooked meat is more digestible than raw meat. But raw meat can be better digested through enhanced comminution. And Homo was more of a meat eater than...
... MW: The Flores hominins had australopithecine size brains and an australopithecine-like post cranial anatomy. But its small dentition are more like that...
Yup. We'll see. They keep inferring that they found more than one tiny skull. They found ONE (too tiny to be part of any credible chain of evolutionary trend...
Marcel, That is possible. I think it's also possible that Sahelanthropus represented an early radiation out of the SE Asian Islands. The morphological...
As has been discussed before, despite the absence of another LB1- like cranium, there is material from other specimens that supports the idea of a population....
Speaking of new SE Asian digs... http://www.smh.com.au/news/science/hobbit-finder-relishes-discovery- trail/2007/05/05/1177788464626.html Alternate link:...
Why are researchers still relying on mtDNA and Y-chromosomal analyses, to support Out of Africa? Emerging data (including CNV and the gorilla study mentioned...
Dan, Absolutely there is a population. That is not my dispute. Yes they are small. Small Homo sapiens. Probably pygmy or "negrito" type. Pygmy types are...
... Yes, higher molar cusps are interesting, thanks. Higher molar cusps could show that Homo didn't descend from Apiths, but that he developed in some other...
... Well, I must thank you second time today. I am extremly glad that you mentioned Sahelanthropus. I don't know how primitive traits H.floresiensis has. As I...
... At first there were some mentioning of a desease. But, it looks like it was just because people who were mentioning this didn't have enough info. Now...
Regarding what I said in my last post: mtDNA and Y studies can be useful, for some things. But, it seems that their capacity to support or prove Out of Africa...
Update: As Philip has pointed out to me (in his DNAanthro group,) judging by PubMed searches, there don't appear to be any credible/useful studies that would...
... No. There are two lines of thoughts. One says that the brain size in primates increased because primates are living on trees, and for living on trees,...
Mario, I'm aware of the old thoughts on that. I've formulated a new hypothesis, which takes account of the new information (small brains in primate ancestors...
... Note, I hypothesized about this in school, but was summarily rebuffed. The new data (small brains in our lineage 29 million years ago, later than...
Mario, It doesn't appear that we can track with any degree of certainty, at this point, just how arboreal/quadrupedal/bipedal our ancestors were, over the last...
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