Guys, I hate to break it to you but I have been misinforming you all along. I have been giving you an uninformed summary of human evolution. I have been wrong, John Hawks has been wrong, Afarensis and the guys of Gene Expression have been wrong — your professors have also been wrong and you [...]
June 5, 2007
Londinium To Lundenwic – the Romano-Saxon Transition
The most mysterious aspect of the Roman burial found recently at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, the church that dominates the eastern side of Trafalgar Square, is not that it was headless, but that it should have come to be buried so far from home, in what was to become Saxon Lundenwic, which was situated a good mile [...]
June 5, 2007
Did the Polynesians bring over the first chickens to the Americas?
Alice A. Storey, an anthropologist at the University of Auckland, has lead a research project that has sought out to identify the origins of chickens in the Americas. Once upon a time, chickens were not native to the this hemisphere of the world, someone brought them over. Yesterday they reported, in a New York Times [...]
