Trends Ecol Evol. 2009 Feb 24. Evolution of the human pygmy phenotype. Perry GH, Dominy NJ. Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, 920 E. 58th ...
Am J Phys Anthropol. 2009 Feb 24. Brief communication: Plio-Pleistocene eagle predation on fossil cercopithecids from the Humpata Plateau, southern Angola. ...
The Prancing Papio: Primatology for the People is an interesting new blog run by Raymond Ho, a student of Queens College - CUNY majoring in Biological...
Marcel: This actually looks like a pretty good site, and I linked to it on my blog, The Writer's Daily Grind at: http://www.writersdailygrind.blogspot.com My...
Letter Nature 458, 198-200 (12 March 2009) | doi:10.1038/nature07741; Received 9 September 2008; Accepted 17 December 2008 Age of Zhoukoudian Homo erectus...
Interestingly, the last magnetic pole flip occurred 780,000 years ago. I don't know what that affected, but it may have caused increased volcanism and...
Am J Phys Anthropol. 2009 Mar 10. [Epub ahead of print] First partial face and upper dentition of the Middle Miocene hominoid Dryopithecus fontani from...
    Can only speculate, but in the 30's, IIRC, Arthur Compton made a number of measurements of the comic ray intensity and found the field deflected some...
I don't know if anyone else has connected the dots on this, but this is very fascinating, a startling correction for the books, certainly. Something the Maya...
I don't know why mountain gorillas and lowland gorillas would differ in this action. Males slap their chests with cupped hands, I guess adult females often...
... Chest pounding is a male dominance signal. Dianne Fossey, when she had seemed to be accepted a a female member of a band of gorillas once experimented with...
This is VERY exciting news, especially about so complete a fossil hominid whose excavation has neen torturously slow and with so few progress reports! I was...
Did Early Humans Really Care? Did early humans take care of the sick, the wounded, and the aged? Modern humans, of course, count on our families, friends, and...
... Right on the money! There is an ergaster skeleton from Turkana (KNM-ER 1808) that apparently suffered from a very serious vitamin A poisoning. JUdging by ...