BBC NEWS Humans share lemur gaze tendency Scientists studying the human tendency to follow the gaze of other people have found a link to the behaviour of...
Monday, February 2, 2009 Our Earliest African Ancestor by Marcel F. Williams In 2002, Nature magazine announced to the world that French paleontologist, Michel...
EARLY HUMAN SKULLS SHAPED FOR NUT-CRACKING Interdisciplinary Team Blends Anthropology, Engineering to Find That Ancient Humans Likely Ate Large, Hard Nuts and...
Journal of Archaeological Science Article in Press, Probable human hair found in a fossil hyaena coprolite from Gladysvale cave, South Africa. Lucinda...
Fundamentally, science is about discovering the underlying simplicity behind the complexity of phenomena. And Charles Darwin did just that when he discovered...
New geochronological, paleoclimatological, and archaeological data from the Narmada Valley hominin locality, central India Rajeev Patnaik, Parth R. Chauhan,...
BBC NEWS First draft of Neanderthal genome By James Morgan Science reporter, BBC News, Chicago The "first draft" of a complete Neanderthal genome has been...
... Since these genes exist in other vertebrates : "Different studies of FOXP2 in songbirds suggest that FOXP2 may regulate genes involved in neuroplasticity:...
    Says that Neandertals have the same two modifications of the chimp (PC?) FOXP2 as humans have.       Regards           John GW ... ...
This page was sent to you by: avgilbert@.... All: This idiot wants to bring Neandertals back to life. Anne G SCIENCE | February 13, 2009 TierneyLab:...
Am J Phys Anthropol. 2009 Jan;138(1):90-100. Relative limb strength and locomotion in Homo habilis. Ruff C. Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution, Johns...
I've always suspected that early Homo females were a lot more arboreal than their male counterparts. Since OH 62 appears to be a very tiny adult female, this...
"Many believe them to be a different, albeit human-like species, but recent genetic evidence supports anatomical interpretations indicating that interbreeding...
Marcel and all: Does anybody have access to this paper so that it can be uploaded here? Anne G How Neandertals inform human variation Milford H. Wolpoff ...
DDeden:i This is not too different, physiologically, from what humans do in some forms of water aerobics. It's a kind of "low impact" situation, and the bears...
Arne: We "know" from their DNA that Neandertals were (somewhat) distinct. We don't know, from DNA or anything else, whether or not "moderns" and Neandertals...
I find the discovery of the wrist bone from another individual, particularly intriguing. Supporting the hypothesis that LB1 was not a singularly unique (or ...
Most here seem to be individuals who are obviously constrained by, "ahem - vectors" which have been created or established by 'so called' Learned or Experts...
... Well possible, but not necessary: when they started living more inland, they could have (re)evolved more ape/apith-like features (= climbing?). H.georgicus...
... Not so much. Imagination is irreplaceable at a certain stage of inquiry, but unless some indication is found that what the imagination has produced is ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7879581.stm a bit more on the bear story http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7879581.stm also, brown bear...
You can watch his fascinating video of bipedal chimps wading through the water at: http://newpapyrusmagazine.blogspot.com/2009/02/david-attenborough-on-aqu\ ...
First of all, I would like to greet all the members of the group. I've been a silent participant for several months now, just following the very interesting...
13,000-Year-Old Stone Tool Cache in Colorado Shows Evidence of Camel, Horse Butchering February 25, 2009 A biochemical analysis of a rare Clovis-era stone tool...