EurekAlert is running a very interesting press release on the discovery of a 500,000 year old Homo erectus fossil recovered from Turkey. Apparently the fossil, a fragment of skull bone, shows lesions that the individual had tuberculosis.
Tuberculosis is a deadly infectious disease caused by multiple strains of mycobacteria. Because the mycobacteria have lost numerous coding [...]
Entries from December 2007
December 7, 2007
500,000 year old Homo erectus from Turkey, and with Tuberculosis
December 6, 2007
Lucy, the graphic novel from Norbet & Liberatore
Lucy that little australopithecine which we also know as AL 288-1 is quite possibly the most popular fossil hominid known. Her remains have sparked lots of controversy lately, which shows how important and impactful this 3 million year old is to the field of paleoanthropology as well as popular culture. To feed into the pop [...]
December 5, 2007
Four Stone Hearth XXIX @ Remote Central
The 29th edition of the anthropology blog carnival Four Stone Hearth is now up at Remote Central, so thanks very much to everyone who submitted content for it, and I hope there is plenty of interest for everyone to read.
The next edition of 4SH will be at The Greenbelt, two weeks from now on December [...]
December 4, 2007
A Faster Rate of Dental Development in the Scladina Neandertal
I have been really anticipating the following study. The first press releases came out in March and in October, I introduced it here. It seems like the paper is finally ready to be published, but we still gotta wait until PNAS puts it up on their early edition section. It should be soon but I [...]
December 2, 2007
Four Stone Hearth XXIX , Wed. December 5th – Call For Submissions
Thanks to the evolution of the eye, the invention of the written word, and a nifty application called the Internet, there will be a new edition of the blog carnival Four Stone Hearth appearing at Remote Central, some time on Wednesday morning, December 5th.
There’s still plenty of room in the in-tray for submissions of content, [...]
