September 24, 2007

Four Stone Hearth – future editions

The next edition of Four Stone Hearth is due out this Wednesday, courtesy of Paddy K’s Swedish Extravaganza, so there’s still time to get those submissions in, if you haven’t already done so.
The following 4SH will be the 25th, and as far as I can tell, this is, despite a slight calendrical discrepancy, being treated [...]

September 24, 2007

Homo floresiensis’ Primitive Wrist

I’ve done so much flip flopping on whether or not Homo floresiensis is in fact a new species of human over the last 3 years that I sometimes forget what opinion I currently hold. The only consistency in my debate has been the call for analysis of the other remains. It seems like I got [...]

September 24, 2007

Using Algorithims to Trace Human Ancestry

Coming up in the September 2007 issue of PLoS Genetics will be a unique study that reports on using a new computer algorithm to help trace the genetic ancestry of thousands of individuals in minutes, without any prior knowledge of their background. I reported on how Ancestry.com will be providing DNA tests for sale last [...]