The ongoing plight of the Hadzabe in Tanzania has caught the attention of the British mainstream press, in the guise of this article from the Daily Mail, on whose behalf Andrew Malone has filed a report. Although many readers of these pages will already be familiar with this story, it’s important to keep it in [...]
July 21, 2007
Back in Black
My field season in Ethiopia has ended, and it was very successful. I want to share with you a lot more than I’m able to write at the moment, so you’re gonna hafta sit tight until I summarize all my experiences into a more thorough post.
In the meantime, you can busy yourself with the photos [...]
July 21, 2007
‘Hidden’ Species May Be Surprisingly Common
Here’s a brief report from New Scientist, discussing research by Markus Pfenninger and Klaus Schwenk, of the Goethe-Universitat in Frankfurt, Germany, who have been engaged in a project which aims to ‘barcode’ every living organism on the planet.
Cryptic species – animals that appear identical but are genetically quite distinct – may be much more widespread [...]
July 21, 2007
Mars Experiment: 520-Day Trip To Nowhere And Back Again
One of the realities of humans travelling to Mars is the need to confine as many people as possible into the smallest possible craft, obliged to enjoy or endure each others’ company for months at a time – and to that end, many experiments will be carried out here on Earth, in which it is [...]
July 21, 2007
Anthropologists Dispute Latest ‘Out of Africa’ Claims
Despite headlines proclaiming that it has been ‘definitively’ proven that all humans alive today arose from a single population of south-central Africans from the Rift Valley around 50,000 bp, John Hawks, Erik Trinkaus and others would beg to differ, claiming that the research conducted into skull morphology by Andrea Manica, of Cambridge University, doesn’t indicate [...]
