07 Friday Dec 2018
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This fascinating visual presentation from the American Museum of Natural History outlines what we know about human evolution by combining a timeline, a map, animation, photographs, and artistic representations of various hominins.
One of my interests in the peopling of the Americas are the Easter Island maoi statues made by the Rapanui …
A new paper in Nature Communications documents a strange bottleneck event occurring about 7,000 years ago, where the genetic diversity …
When it comes to the evolution of the human brain, size isn’t everything. In fact, shape is a huge determinant. …
No one knows exactly the population of Native Americans when contact with Europeans occured. There are some estimates claiming there …
A very cool series of three studies were published several days ago in Science and Nature that I just have …
Svante Pääbo, director of the genetics department at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany wants to …
Yesterday, Nature published an alarming find of butchered rhinoceros remains from the Kalinga site in the Cagayan Valley on Luzon in the …
The pre-Columbian burial site of the Chimú civilization known as Las Llamas, in northern Peru contains the skeletons of 140 …
The Bajau people of Indonesia are known as “Sea Nomads,” because we’ve known that for thousands of years they live …
