What was the cause of the woolly mammoth extinction? Climate change or hunting?
The following post doesn’t directly have much to do with anthropology. Indirectly, it sure does, especially to those out there …
Monthly Archives: March 2008
More on Vajda’s Siberian-Na-Dene Language Link
National Geographic News has just published an article about the recent symposium in Alaska regarding a possible connection between Yeniseic …
What is unique about the human arcuate fasciculus… and what does it have to do with language?
Despite the fact that I’ve seen some really impactful primate related research lately, I’ve completely neglected updating Primatology.net with it. …
Four Stone Hearth 37 – The Pulp SciFi Edition @ Hot Cup of Joe
There’s a brand new – and very stylish – edition of the anthropology blog carnival, Four Stone Hearth, which should …
Four Stone Hearth 37, Wed. March 26th – Call For Submissions
Hot Cup of Joe will be the venue for the upcoming 4SH, this Wednesday, March 26th, so if you’d like …
I Love Lucy
Major kudos goes out to Simon of HENRY, who found this awesome shirt: Even though that ain’t Lucy’s skull — …
A Multivariate Analysis of Orrorin tugenensis and the Ancestry of Bipedalism
Tomorrow’s issue of the Science will host a reinvestigation of the famous (or infamous?) Orrorin tugenensis. The study, “Orrorin tugenensis …
Correlating genetic and morphological evidence to pinpoint a divergence time for Neandertals and modern Humans
A couple days ago, I introduced a new paper by Weaver et al. which continues investigating the effect of genetic …
An upcoming study on Homo floresiensis says they are a separate species
Another PNAS study to share with y’all, this time I caught the announcement via ScienceNOW. ScienceNOW says the paper is …
Weaver, Roseman and Stringer back at it with Neandertals, Natural Selection and a time of divergence
Today’s early issue of PNAS includes a paper by Tim Weaver, Charles Roseman and Chris Stringer who revisit the chance …
