This announcement is a call for papers for the 16th International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) in Kunming, Yunnan, China on 15-23th July 2008. The session will be on Anthropology and Islam with three panels focusing on:
Visual Anthropology in Muslim Societies: Problematics and Methodologies
Death and Dying in Muslim [...]
I’ve covered copy number variations in the past, and the post I put up this morning is kinda along the same lines as the following paper I will introduce. But, in a nutshell, this one is a comparison of copy number variation or CNVs in primate genomes.
CNV is a term used in genomic studies to [...]
Yann has found some interesting papers in the last day or so. One paper he stumbled upon researches the heritable variation of Angiotensin Converting Enzyme (ACE) in humans and baboons. It is titled, Parallel effects of genetic variation in ACE activity in baboons and humans.” ACE is a homeostatic regulator protein, and like other physiological [...]
There has been brief mention these past few days of two human footprints that have been found preserved in sandstone, by a team of archaeologists under the supervision of Dr. Ahmad Hassan Dani, of Taxila Institute of Asian Civilisations at the Quaid-i-Azam University, in Islamabad. As we see…
A footprint of 1 feet is in complete [...]
Although I should have posted this earlier, Afarensis is hosting the next Four Stone Hearth, so this is a reminder to ask anyone who’s interested in submitting material of their own, to send it along in time for Wednesday; alternatively, if you see the work of someone else that you consider would be a worthy [...]
I was wrong to say today was a slow day in anthropology related news, because I just found a brand new hot off the press human brain evolution paper published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology. I found the paper through Razib’s Homo amygdala post over at his blog Gene Expression.
My thesis research is [...]
It is a rather slow anthropology news day, but the plight of the Hadza is still on my mind. So, what better way to fill the gap than to share with you some awesome photos of the Hadza found on Flickr?
Science has just put out a news piece updating us on new research about the Nasca lines, which are located in the Peruvian Desert. It is titled, “Digging Into a Desert Mystery.”
I consider the Nasca, or Nazca, a mysterious culture, especially after a headless man was found and reported on in June. The Nasca lines [...]
I wanted to really quickly give kudos to Afarensis, who dutifully ripped apart a dumb question that a creationist asked in regards to recent research on bipedalism. If you come from the camp that thinks there isn’t such a thing a stupid question… then I’m sorry to rain on your parade. There is such a [...]
Hot on the heels of the recent discovery of a 1.2 million (?) year-old tooth at Atapuerca, comes this news of skull fragments dating to 500,000 bp, and found in the Sima de los Huesos, the cave of bones’, better known for the finds of fossilised remains of around 30 individuals, at the bottom of [...]
