Bipedalism has graced our blog several times before, but we’ve mostly stuck to using comparative anatomy to explain the how’s and why’s to our unique way of movement. There’s new research coming from the Kennedy Krieger Institute that gives us a window into the adaptations and specific requirements the brain has made to accommodate bipedalism.
Specifically, [...]
August 7, 2007
The Neural Networks needed for Bipedalism & the Human Brain’s Adaptive Capacity
August 7, 2007
Dental evidence on the Pleistocene Hominin Dispersal
I hate to be bugging you with these half-assed side notes, but the PNAS paper that I’ve been swooning over the last couple of days is now out.
Here are the good bits: Dental evidence on the hominin dispersals during the Pleistocene,
“A common assumption in the evolutionary scenario of the first Eurasian hominin populations is that [...]
August 7, 2007
Louise Leakey on Lucy’s Tour
Since I’ve expressed interest in the drama that is unfolding about Lucy’s tour, I got passed a link to a Guardian article which writes on the topic and has a very poignant quote criticism from Louise Leakey,
“If [Lucy] has to be displayed it should only be in Ethiopia, [so] that the country draws some benefit [...]
