Two interesting articles that went into my inbox today: Modern man a wimp says anthropologist and Darwin Lives! Modern Humans Are Still Evolving.
A cover illustration from Australian anthropologist Peter McAllister’s new book entitled “Manthropology” and sub-titled “The Science of the Inadequate Modern Male.” Photo from REUTERS/Hachette Publishing/Handout.
Modern man a wimp says anthropologist from Reuters, summarizes [...]
The controversies over the hobbits or Homo floresiensis just refuse to end. It seems that the hobbits might not be a Homo after all. I guess they found the index and ring fingers of the hobbits (Sorry, inside joke. Read this post if you want).
Homo floresiensis (LB1) skull. Photo from Science Museum.
Homo floresiensis, LB1, [...]
That is what University of Liverpool’s Emma Nelson probably would have said if she were to meet our hominan ancestors in person. Known to hold true in anthropoids (humans, apes and monkeys), the index (second digit) to ring (fourth digit) fingers ratio or 2D:4D is an indication of how much an individual were exposed to [...]
Speaking of the Johansons and fossils …
Earlier this year, I’ve blogged about the 2009 Human Evolution Leakey Symposium at Stony Brook that I went to. For more about that blog post, click here.
The symposium, entitled “Hobbit in the Haystack: Homo floresiensis and Human Evolution” can now be streamed live through the Stony Brook website. The [...]
Skull of LB1 (Homo floresiensis, or the hobbit) Photo from Science Museum
New analysis by a team led by Australian National University doctoral student Debbie Argue showed that Homo floresiensis, nicknamed hobbits, were early hominin and walked out of Africa to Flores. Their findings supports the argument that Homo floresiensis had a unique wrist anatomy that [...]
The face of the first European, reconstructed by forensic artist Richard Neave.
Photo from Telegraph.
Using the incomplete skull and jaw bone in a cave in the southwest of the Carpathian Mountains in Romania, scientists had revealed for the first time the face of the first European.
Scientists doesn’t know if this modern human is a [...]
A new genetic survey by Dr. Sarah A. Tishkoff of the University of Pennsylvania and her team has found that modern humans originated in an area between Namibia and Angola, on the coast of southwest Africa. Read the New York Times Article: Eden? Maybe. But Where’s the Apple Tree?
However, this harsh and inhospitable area [...]
The 7th Human Evolution Symposium, Hobbits in the Haystack: Homo floresiensis and Human Evolution was held yesterday at Stony Brook. Turnouts were great despite damp and rainy weather. Convened by Richard Leakey, the symposium was an all day event where researchers share their findings on Homo floresiensis. The highlight of the symposium is the [...]
