Paleoanthropologist Louise Leakey’s TEDtalk
Every year TED invites esteemed academics, thinkers, doers, entrepreneurs, etc. to give an exclusive 15-18 minute long talk about what …
Monthly Archives: July 2008
Ancient Chilean Chicken May Not Be Of Polynesian Origin
It is coincidental that a regular Anthropology.net commenter, Terry, just posted a comment about last year’s study on the origins …
Why There Is Such A High Percentage Of Amerindian mtDNA And European Y-Chromosome Signatures In The Caribbean
I have family living in the Caribbean, they specifically reside on the island of Grenada. And I regularly go down …
Can There Be A Synthesis Between Cultural And Biological Evolution?
Language is a product of culture. Or is it? Which came first — language or culture? That’s like asking if …
Differences Between Cognition & Memory Of Males And Females Linked To Two Genes
Peter Giese of the Institue of Psychiatry at King’s College London, University of London has been studying the differences between …
A 3D Computed Tomography Scan Of The Liujiang Cranium
A couple days ago, press release agencies like EurekAlert! and ScienceDaily ran some anthropology blips that was not picked up …
The 28,000 Year Old Paglicci 23 Cro-Magnon mtDNA Ain’t Neandertal — It Is More Modern Than Anything Else
The open access journal PLoS One has published a new ancient DNA paper, “A 28,000 Years Old Cro-Magnon mtDNA Sequence …
Charles Lockwood In Memoriam
From John Lynch, of Stranger Fruit, comes the upsetting news of Charles Lockwood‘s untimely death. He died in a motorcycle …
Episode 1: A ScreenCast Tutorial On How-To Do A Multiple Sequence Alignment & Draw A Phylogenetic Tree Using Swami
The last time I did a little tutorial on how to use bioinformatic tools in anthropological research was last October. …
Homo heidelbergensis Ear Anatomy Indicates They Could Have Heard The Same Frequency of Sounds As Modern Humans
Pinpointing when language became a prevalent trait during human evolution has been tricky. Last fall we read a paper which …
