In an upcoming publication in the Journal of Human Evolution will be an interesting study that should get all y’all dental anthropology buffs excited. It comes from Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility. The study will use synchrotron microtomography, a form of visualization that was developed bypaleontologist Paul Tafforeau.
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October 13, 2007
Synchrotron Microtomography Analysis of Human vs. Neanderthal Tooth Development
October 13, 2007
Again on Ancient African Megadroughts
PNAS finally published one of the two sets of ecological explanations for the Out-of-Africa theory in “East African megadroughts between 135 and 75 thousand years ago and bearing on early-modern human origins.” The second publication “Ecological consequences of early Late Pleistocene megadroughts in tropical Africa” also came out earlier this week.
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