October 16, 2007

Hominin Database

I just mentioned that I’ve been out of the loop. Aside from banging my head against the desk over Aaron Filler’s paper, I’ve also been developing the framework to a database of hominin fossil remains. I’d like to share it with you in this post. I’ve creatively named the project, Hominin Database. I coulda gone [...]

October 16, 2007

Aaron Filler’s Morotopithecus bipedalism

I’ve been under the radar for several days.
I’ve been struggling to understand this paper, “Homeotic Evolution in the Mammalia: Diversification of Therian Axial Seriation and the Morphogenetic Basis of Human Origins,” from Aaron Filler of Harvard’s Anthropology department. All I can really make sense of it is that there’s a probability that bipedalism originated way [...]